jeffrey brown has this report from the art institute of chicago, f our series on arts and culture, "canvas> brown: a young boy in sunglasses poses outside a loews movie thear on 125th street in new york city. a shoemaker stands in his rkspace, cigarette hanging between his fingers. portraits of men, women and children, often amid the hubbub of daily life, yet somehow intimate. "you might just pass us by," the subjects seem to say, "but here we are."ey e the work of photographer dawoud bey. >> it begins with the subject, a deep interest in wanting to describe the black subject wn harlem, in that's as complex as the experience of any one else. it's to kind of re-shape the world one person at a time. >> brown: bey, who has severe, hearing lorst made his name as a street photographer capturing life in harlem in the 1970s. in his work since, shot in many parts of the country, on streets and in a studio, he's continued to re-focus how blacks are portrayed in art and popular culture. >> african americans and photographs have very often en viewed through a lens of social pathology. so, i wanted to

. >> oodruff: amidst all the chaos in the world, we offer a "ton" for your friday evenin jeffrey brownks to a musician and programmer about how anyone can benefit from a dose of classical music, every day of the year. take a listen. it's part of our ooing arts and culture series, "canvas." ♪ ♪ >> brown: if it's january 3rd, why not try a bit of hildegard of bingen, written in the 12th century? ♪ ♪ march 27th? the overture of a mozart opera. ♪ ♪ or, for november 3rd, a contemporary icelandic musician, olafur arnalds. >> selecting a piece of classical music for every day of the year. and i hope that it will elicit a year of wonder.st i am ctly wonderstruck by the incredible gift that classical music can be. welcome back. >> brown: clemency burton-hill is an evangelist for what some see as a dying art form: classical music. she's the creative director at wqxr, the classical music, public radio stion serving the new york metropolitan area. and, she's author of the new book, "year of wonder," which she wrote, she says, because too many feel excluded from this music she loves. >> people were

jeffrey brown looks at the artistry that goes into preserving images for years to come.s part of "canvas," our regular series on arts ande. cult >> reporter: within tht walls of the stitute of chicago resides one of the nation's foremost collections of photography. here, works by 20th century masters such as alfred stieglitz and walker evans share space with daguerreotypes from the earliest days of the medium. for a collection this size and quality to be fit for the viewing publ hours of painstaking work is required behind the scenes. >> reporter: penichon and her >> you could say i am maybe the primary care physician of the photograph collection. >> reporter: primary care physician? >> yes.r: >> reporhen there's trouble or something's wrong, they call you? >> or maybe not... just fo their annual checkup. iu do a regular checkup to make sure that everythiokay, and that's what we do, too. >> reporter: penichon and herib team are respo for maintaining, preserving and 'spairing the more than 24,000 pieces in the muse collection. it's delicate and time-consuming work, often

>> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in the san francisco bay area. >> woodruff: and wel be bac shortly, witok at the price of privacy in this digital age. but first, taka moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support, which >> woodruff: a top facebook heecutive in charge of all products announced today he is leaving the social media giant. it is the highest-level departure in years, and comes amidst mounting criticism of how roe company handles users data. tonight, we hearroger mcnamee. he was an early investor in facebook, still holds in it, but is now a vocal critic. he offers his "humble opinion" on how we need to stop being passive and decide how of our personal information we want to share. >> data is replacing oil as the most valuable commodity in our economy. unlike oil, where ownership is tied to the property under which it resides, corporations acquire highly personal data in the course of a transaction and assert ownership forever. instead of asking permission,e corporations tat they want and challenge us to object. >> thanks

for the pbs newsi'm jeffrey brown at the art institute of chicago. >> woodruff: and we'll be back shortlyth a differtype but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. >> woodruff: for those stations miles o'brien has this encore report on how california is zeroing in on this issue. >> this is honor rancho. >> reporter: this is about ten clicks north or so. it's time for a preflight briefing at burbank airport. we're going to get plenty of data over the-- over the sites. n'm flying with a team from nasa's jet propuls laboratory. a place that specializes in exploring distant planets, today is focused on our own. they're taking flight over southern califora, hunting one of the most potent greenhouse gases of all-- methane. it accounts for one-fifth of the global warming we are experiencing now. >> you can't manage what you don't measure. >> reporter: riley duren is the chief systems engineer for j.p.l.'s earth science directorate. he and technologist andrew thorpe are using a state-of-the- art infrared imaging spectrometer to find plumes of methane invisible to the human eye.

jeffrey brown, who profiled kacey musgraves last month, has a report on nashville's gender imbalance, what's being done to address it. r it's part of oular series on arts and culture, "canvas." ♪ ♪ >> brown: this is the sound of monday nights at "the listening room," known in nashville as a" iter's round," where singer- songwriters learn to hone theire crafre a live audience. but this one is different, anden rare: an all-whowcase in a cecity dominated by male v turn to a country station today and this is what you're most likely to hear: ♪ ♪ in fact, in 2017 only around 10% of billboard's top 60 country songs were by women, a number that's actually fallen in recent year and it was that persistent disparity that led producer todd cassetty to found this all- female showcase, called "song ffragettes." ♪ ♪ >> we thought if we create a female only weekly show where a lot of tse women can come play their songs try them out see what the responses are, meet like-minded creatives that they would benefit. >> brown: kalie shorr is one of them. originally from maine, in 2012 she graduated high sch

at the famed sardiestaurant, jeffrey brown recently spoke toe the duo to take it on.of our regular series covering arts and culture, "canvas." >> i want something of value. you got anything of value, lee? >> brown: "true west" is a tale of sibling rivalry spiraling to the breaking point >> i am about to kick your ass out of here. >> oh, now you're going to kick me out? oh, oh, now i'm the intruder. >> brown: going at it nightly in a new broadway production by the roundabout theater: 48-year-old ethan hawke, as le menacing, a petty criminal and drifter; and paul dano, 34, as austp,, a buttonedtraight-arrow, hollywood screenwriter. twbrothers, locked in a psychological-- and eventually physic-- battle of wills, while house-sitting their mother's southern california home. hawke was first approached about the revival severayears ago. >> i was planning to say i'm the, the wrong guy. and between the phone calls to plan the meeting, and the meeting, sam passed. so the mting took on a whole different tone. >> brown: "sam," of course, is sam shepard, the pulitzer prize- winnin

jeffrey brown went to dripping springs, texas, recently to hear a veteran singer-songwriter lay out thepters of her life-- and draw her audience in. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ ♪ >> brown: patty griffin is known for creating indeliblers characn her songs, singing other people's stories. but in the new song "river", the character is much closer to home. oh, i am writing about myself there. >>rown: you are. >> i'm writing about my emotions. the emotions of this thing that i'm in cled life. >> brown: we met griffin, whod just tur, on a glorious day in the texas hill country at a ranch called camp lucy ranch, home to a small festival, an offshoot of the much larger south southwest in nearby austin. for griffin it was a first chance to perform music from her self-titled new album, songs written in aore introspective mode, in the wake of her recent bout with breast canr. ♪ >> there was definitely a reality check for me. there's lots of them as your get older. this one was very specific: "you will not be getting out of here inive, by the way. you better start lt

>> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in the n francisco bay area. >> woodruff: and we willback shortly, with a look at the price of privacy in this digital age. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. uf >> woo for those of you staying with us, plastic pollution is now conhedered one ofargest environmental threats facing humans and enimals. amna nawaz has thire story about our global plastics problem. >> every day an estimated 750 tons of material goes through this process, and every step along the way, just like this one, is designed to remove one more material. today new innovative ways of reciulating our plastic are being road tested, literally in this case. this is th very first plastic road in the u.s. on the university of california san diego campus. >> w have some rk to do. >> reporter: toby mccartney is behind the british start-up that mixes recycled plastic pelletsp into alt. >> the down side to waste plastics is it lasts for so long. a bottle will last for ma

jeffrey brown has this encore report from our "american creators" series. >> brown: welcome to marfa,as, dusty ranchlands surrounding a tiny rural town near the mexican border, and an internationally renowned art mecca. it's sometimes weird, often wonderful, definitely far offth beaten path, some three hours from the nearest majorai ort. >> you can get from new york to paris, seated and eating dinner faster tu can get from new york to marfa. so, you got to make the commitment to come her >> brown: jenny moore is director of the chinati undation, a sprawling museum created from an old army fort on 340 acres.ou >> have time here. you're are of the passage of time by the sun arcing across the sky. you don't get that in a lot of places. >> brown: chinati, and the whole marfa phenomenon, grew with the arrival here in the 1970s of artist donald judd, a g figure in what became known as minimalism, art stripped down to basic forms. judd wanted out of what he saw as the stifling new york art scene, as he explained in an 1983 newshour interview. >> for many years, i have been looking for empty

she's calling it "blacksheep bakery." ♪ ♪ for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in letcher county.>> woodruff: this week, newshour's facebook wah show, "that moment when," features tamar manasseh, the founder of "mask"-- mothers and men against senseless killing. manasseh tells us how she is able to win people over to her cause using her background growing up as a jewish woman of color on chicago's south side. >> what does it feel like to have the internationaledia storm chicago on its worst days with the high number of shootings and killings? >> i don't feel anything. i think the mayor should feel something. i think the superintendent of police should feel something., people like o are out here every day, who are trying to make theifference, who are making the difference, who do the work, we see that our efforts are actually doing something, even if the international media doesn't recognize it. it not about that. it's about the lives that you save. when i leave here, i'm going to go home, i'm going to put on some warm clothes, and i'm goinb to head to tck, because tonight we're ha

jeffrey brown has this report for "canvas," our arts and culture series. u.s.ico border from the south, at the same time a family in new york heads for the border on a road rip across america. valeria luiselli first wro of migration in her 2017 nonfiction book "tell me how it ends" ba hd r work as an interpreterc foldren seeking to remain in the u.s. now she goes written a fictional account in the novel "lost children ars hive." thisr first novel written in english. born ine mexico, shw lives in new york. welcome to you. >> thank you very much. >> brown: you've done an interesting thing, written two books, one i nonfiction, one fiction about one subject. first, the subject, why did itgr you? >> it was the first summer or what we can now call this era of the central american diaspora which is the summer where t arrival of central american children to the u.s. who were seeking asylum surged, and driving down the arizona and hearing the news with my family, i couldn't stop thinking about the fact that there were, at that moment, 60,000 children alone at the bordew

jeffrey brown brings us the latest entry on the newshour bookshelf, part of canvas our regular arts and series. >> brown: in the writer marlon james' brooklyn apartment: african masks he's collected over the years. superhero toys, and lots of books, including the comics and fantasy stories he's long loved. thtjamaican-born james is b known for his literary fiction, including "a brief history of tseven killings," winner prestigious man booker award. now comes "black leopardred wolf," a tale of magic, shape- yshifting characters, blo battles and fantastic adventures famiar in some ways, but through a less familiar lens >> i've also said it's almost like an african arabian nights, in that it's a story about stories. what happened? th man is telling you what happened and he gets very digressive along the way, telling you other sorts of ories, other sorts of folktales. because if you read stuff like arabian nights, a story leads into a story leads into a story leads into a story, and that's y brown: i've seen you describe yourself as a fantrd. what did that mean? >> it means i read everythin

now, jeffrey brownes the festive menu of nowruz, with recipes from a new cookbook by a leading persianf.ar it'sof "canvas," our regular arts and culture seriesv actually, ery dish i make represents something. >> brown: the washington, d.c. inme and kitchen >> brown: the washgton, d.c. home and kitchen of celebrated eaok, najmieh batmanglij, as she prepares a special >> i'm making traditional chrsian new year meal, whian making fisit's spring lamb because some parts of it, they eat spring lamb for the norooz. i love what i'm doing. i'm so lucky. and i cook with all myeing and i cook with love and i love to have people that i care for. >> brown: najmieh is the author of eight cookbooks, including "food of life," a bible of sorts for persians living abroad. >> brown: she's also a personal friend-- i've been lucky to dine es her table a number of t over the years, and hear stories of her growing up in tehran. t i remember yling me that you did not cook as a girl right. your mother wouldn't let you in the kitchen. >> yes. i always love to cook, but m mother wouldn't allow me in the kitchen.

n >> woodruft, jeffrey brown's "now read this" book club conversation with our march author. s part of our regular series on the arts and culture, "canvas." >> brown: around the world, women have developed a special superpowergethe ability to rate electric shocks and hurt men. our march book club pick "the power" is dark, unsettling, imagining where the gender balance and world order are upset but not quite as you think. the author joins me to answer some of the questions our readers sent in. thank you for being a part of this. >> great to u here. tellwhat you're after. superpowers, everything flips, right? >> what if women and not men were the sex who could doore physical harm, who could cause more pain, do we think that, in those circumstances, women woula remainful and loving and kind and lovely, or do we not? and let's have a think about how those situations will play outa, i really went into the book thinking i want to know, too. i want to know what would happen in these circumstances, and then just following the logic of the aracters and the the pl through to work out wh

pamela brown and jeffrey toobin and gloria. >> congressman. a lot of democrats are talking about under lining documents from mueller. >> is a lot of it is grand jury testimony which you know can't be revealed and some of it is going to be subject to executive privileg privilege. how much do you think you will be able to finally get in terms of the evidence that mueller was looking at? >> well, i think it is critical that we get in it. i think we'll have access to the vast majority and respected grand jury proceedings. there are instances which the core can authorize -- >> so you go to court. >> absolutely. we have a responsibility to conduct oversight in a number of error that is we identify. corruption, obstruction of justice. abusive power, this will inform the work of the judicial committee must do. we have a speedometresponsibili that. we'll use all the procedures that we have to. litigation and subpoena and bringing witness before the committee. we'll get to the bottom of all of these things and the american people are erelying on us and