This week, the short films that competed for your vote all thwart expectations in their own ways. So which film won?

Charlie Rose interviews Museum of Modern Art curator Paola Antonelli about this exhibit, which closes May 12, 2008. She discusses about the convergence of design, technology, and human needs and adaptations and how this convergence challenges the mind.

In 2005, P.O.V. aired Jessica Yu’s In the Realms of the Unreal, about outsider artist Henry Darger. A new exhibit of artists inspired by Darger’s work is up through September. P.O.V. talks to the exhibit’s curator.

Founded in 1936, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — known at that time as the Palestine Orchestra — was established to save Jewish musicians in Europe from the imminent Holocaust. Watch some of the 70th anniversary concert online.

Perhaps a little more politicized, and with a few different characters…Sesame Street was relaunched in Israel at the end of 2006. It’s called Sippuray Sumsum, and the characters featured are Noah and Brosh.
(sample of Israeli Sesame Street below, apologies if it’s not working)

Sesame Street launched their U.S. video website in January…there are hundreds of [...]

Composer David Lang, one of the co-founders of New York’s Bang on a Can, has been a prolific presence on the city’s contemporary music scene for more than twenty years. Lang sat down with SundayArts blogger Adam Wasserman for a chat about his work shortly after he won the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Listen to [...]

This week, American Masters features Web-exclusive video interviews with people who worked with Marvin Gaye at Motown Records and others who knew him, including Gladys Knight, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone), Ashford & Simpson, Otis Williams (Temptations), and Weldon McDougal (Motown).

In Israel, a vibrant punk scene has emerged in a society torn apart by the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In these four candid video interviews, FRONTLINE/World reporter and filmmaker Liz Nord talks to the musicians driving the movement.

To commemorate Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Radio City will host Israeli stars David Broza, Idan Raichel, Rami Kleinstein, Habanot Nechama and Yael Naim. Americans Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu, recent MacArthur grantee John Zorn and David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer will be on hand as well. See video.

Poets played a major role voicing the hardships and joys during Israel’s founding. Today, the poetry scene is more fractured, much like the land itself. Listen to three prominent Israeli poets reflect on the situation.