Arts

Today's Morning Edition music is from Paul McCartney and a recording from a live performance of his during a U.S. tour in 1976.

Jeff Larson, Minnesota Fringe Festival executive director, joins us to talk about what's new this year.

Today's Morning Edition music is from acclaimed jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton singing "All I Want." The song is from the 2013 album "After Blue" which is a collection of her interpretations of Joni Mitchell songs.

Circus Juventas is now moving on to the next option, which includes a smaller renovation of the main building, and then possibly in five to 10 years establishing a second site in the Twin Cities for classes and performances.

Today's Morning Edition music is from 40 years ago this week when "Annie's Song" by John Denver was No. 1 on the pop charts.

There have been many movies made about sports: some great, but the majority even more formulaic than a romantic comedy.

Tippett joins us to talk about the work that garnered the national award, presented by President Obama.

Kerri's book Pick of the Week is "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein.

Today's Morning Edition music is the song "Someday" from the new Eric Clapton album "The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale" which comes out today.

"I desperately and passionately wanted a career as an actor, so I chose to be in the closet," says actor George Takei, the subject of a new documentary.

75 years ago today, Judy Garland recorded "Over the Rainbow." This version was released as a single and is different than the performance used in "The Wizard of Oz" which was released a month later.

"The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale," will be released next week. It's an all-star tribute to Clapton's late friend, the guitarist and singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Okla. J.J. Cale deeply inspired Clapton and wrote two of his biggest hits, "After Midnight" and "Cocaine." He spoke with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

"That's what distinguishes a superhero from an action movie hero.," says Glen Weldon, author of The Caped Crusade. "He doesn't go out for revenge. It's not a vendetta, it's a crusade. He represents the idea of: 'This thing that happened to me? Never again.' "

Prince's semi-autobiographical film, "Purple Rain," hit theaters 30 years ago this weekend. Eric Deggans remembers the moment vividly.

Today's Morning Edition music is from Prince, with "Baby I'm a Star" from the film "Purple Rain," which opened in theaters 30 years ago today. It was filmed in and around Minneapolis, with many scenes at the First Avenue nightclub -- where some of the bartenders called Prince "Purple Pain."

Madrid's El Prado Museum admitted to losing 885 pieces of art from its collection. How does this happen?

Author Lisa O'Donnell talked to Euan Kerr about the challenges of becoming a novelist later in life, and how humor has allowed her to tell moving stories about difficult subjects.

Five years ago, printing your own book was stigmatized and was seen as a mark of failure. "But now," says a sociologist who is studying the industry, "the self published authors walk into the room and they say, 'I made a quarter of a million dollars last year."

In the age of the selfie, the self-portrait snapped on a phone then shared on-line, it might seem that there is no longer a place for portrait painters. But the artists involved in "Self & Others," a show that opens at the Instinct Gallery on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, say otherwise.

Daily Circuit producer Stephanie Curtis is heading to the beach for two weeks and shares a few ideas about what she, and you, might bring to read.