By Larry London Washington 31 December 2007 Hip-Hop artist T-Pain is only 22 years-old, and he has already produced more music than artists who've spent a lifetime in the entertainment field. He's just been nominated for five Grammy Awards. That's

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What at first seemed like a standard bit of legalese has now created a controversy. The language appears in the contracts given to artists performing at this year's South by Southwest music festival. Musicians accuse the festival o

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

Who was the better artist, a caveman or Leonardo da Vinci? It turns out that early depictions of four-legged animals walking are more accurate in some ways than modern oneseven those crafted by the Renaissance master. The study is in the journal PLoS

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十二)月

Nam June Paik Turned Video into an Object of Art Im Shirley Griffith. And Im Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Nam June Paik is widely considered one of the first video artists. Today, video art is a rich and popular field in mod

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(五)月

Creative New Zealand wants to make changes. At the moment, Creative New Zealand has four organisations: the Arts Council, the Arts Board, Te Waka Toi, and the Pacific Arts Committee. Together these organisations have 55 staff including 28 directors.

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

An Unusual Instrument for Sale at the Smithsonian Craft Show Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today we play songs from a long-awaited album from the band Phoenix. We also tell about a way to unload unwanted clothin

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(五)月

By Amanda Cassandra New York 26 October 2006 Comic and cartoon art is moving out of specialty shops and into galleries and museums as traditional art venues recognize its artistic and literary value. From VOA's New York Bureau, Correspondent Barbara

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

Kenyan soapstone carver Elkana Ong'esa has earned an international reputation for his carvings. His sculptures adorn the entrances of the United Nations building in New York and UNESCO's headquarters in Paris. Now a new work will be unveiled soon at

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(五)月

Thousands Create Massive Art Scroll in Los Angeles Nearly 3,000 people showed off their skills as artists in Los Angeles on Sunday, creating a panoramic scroll one kilometer long. The event was called The Big Draw. It was one of 60 art events taking

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十月)

Ryan Tedder, the Busiest Guy in Music Business? Ryan Tedder may be the busiest guy in the music business these days. Lead singer for the band OneRepublic, Tedder also writes and produces hits songs for other artists, last year earning an estimated $2

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(五月)

Young Entrepreneurs Search for Stars in Ghana Kobby Koomson co-founded Moonlight Caf to reach out to young underground artists and discover new talent in music, poetry and the spoken word. Koomson and his partner, Sydney Sam, believe that creativity

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(三月)

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it's time now for StoryCorps. Today, what can happen when you take the time to start a conversation with a stranger? Thirty-one-year-old Brian Peterson is a car designer living in Santa Ana, Calif. Every d

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

Out Of This World: How Artists Imagine Planets Yet Unseen play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:30repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A former sawdust factory in Brooklyn has been transformed into a nonprofit music venue with a $4 million annual budget. It spends nearly a quarter of that to commission new works, to record and release albums and support young arti

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

The Auckland Art Gallery announced today that they will receive a very generous gift of 15 paintings. The gift is from Julian and Josie Robertson, an American couple who have spent some time in New Zealand for the last 30 years. They said they love N

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By George Dwyer Washington 02 November 2007 Afghanistan, a nation once renowned for its artists and intellectuals, has again begun to sprout a vibrant arts movement. For years, artistic expression was stifled in the war-torn nation by religious extre

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

New Zealand has chosen two artists to represent our country in Venice for the Biennale Art Exhibition, Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard. They will be among artists from 90 other countries. This is the most famous biennale (which means every two yea

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Topics: Famous Americans: Great Jazz Artists Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald; the Amish; to be honest versus as a matter of fact; why dont you versus lets Words: jazz pearl world-famous to drop out civil rights movement first lady improv postage

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

When Pixar Studios creators of computer animated films including Finding Nemo and The Incredibles made Cars, it was a bad sign. That film was supposedly about the value of old things, especially mourning the death of Route 66. But it was really about

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(154) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Topics: Ask an American: Artists as ambassadors; log versus timber versus lumber; to bump into Words: concept narrative partner to realize spiteful collaboration like-minded creative to sponsor vision to engage propaganda lasting log timber lumber to

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(460) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe