Watch step by step as an artist creates a replica of a famous van Gogh painting. Can you tell the genuine article from the forgery?

Funny Ha Ha, Andrew Bujalski’s 16mm sleeper hit about a college grad adrift in her early twenties, airs on Reel 13 this Saturday, June 28th at 10pm. Watch the trailer.

The documentary on this gifted artist, from his glamorous work in Hollywood of the ’40s to his large-scale architectural projects of the ’50s, airs tonight at 10pm, part of June’s “Out” programming. Unusually, Norman spent his life not in the closet, and is a working sculptor at 90.
See Norman’s site for galleries of his [...]

Police in Zimbabwe raided the opposition party’s headquarters and took away about 60 people Monday, a party spokesman said. The raid came a day after the party’s presidential candidate withdrew from a runoff against longtime President Robert Mugabe. See the full report on NewsHour.

Stand-up comic, social commentator, and pundit of the profane, George Carlin died on Sunday, June 22 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. His publicist said the cause of death was heart failure. Watch an interview he did a few years ago and read more about his work.

The talk in art circles may be about China these days, but the northern European scene isn’t doing too bad for itself either. Just this summer in New York, there’s “From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art” at Scandinavia House, “Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland” at P.S. 1, and of course, Denmark’s Olafur Eliasson is [...]

Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, has developed a reputation as “the environmentalist business can work with.” Last week, he sat down with Charlie Rose to discusses all things carbon.

On June 26, the Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Starting with the Universe” opens. See clips and read more about this engineering visionary.

A look at Raul Castro’s latest reforms and the future of U.S.-Cuba relations

A short film about tensions in the Pakistani-Indian disputed territory of Kashmir

A fresh take on the human impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam project

President Bush called on Congress to lift a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Two days earlier, Sen. John McCain had asked for the same thing. Read more about the issue.