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The Christian Science Monitor

Arts and Entertainment

Endangered plants you'll likely never see

'Losing Paradise,' a new botanical art exhibition of 44 rare species, illustrates the art form's enduring value – even in this age of digital.

Top Picks: Esperanza Spalding's newest CD, Ken Burns's unseen films, 'City Island' out on DVD, and more recommendations

Esperanza Spalding's new album, 'Chamber Music Society,' three unseen Ken Burns documentaries on pbs.org, adult drama 'City Island' on DVD, and more.

Top Picks: 'Red Horse' CD, style beyond fashion at 'The Sartorialist,' behind bottled-water doc, and more recommendations

'Red Horse' CD from three of folk music's warmest voices, 'The Sartorialist' – a blog for the fashion cognoscenti, an eye-opening documentary on the bottled-water industry, and more.

Top picks: Daffy Duck toon classics, Maine's culinary delights, music for Haiti, and more

Classic Daffy Duck toons out on DVD, mouthwatering 'Fresh From Maine' cook book, 'Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti' CD, and more top picks.

Top picks: A celebration of Mexican music, tour exotic homes, 'Entre Nos' DVD, and more recommendations

'Mi Alma Mexicana' CD celebrates Mexico, Architectural Digest steps into the exotic in its August issue, Paola Mendoza's film 'Entre Nos' comes out on DVD, and more top picks.

Edward Burtynsky and Ansel Adams: A pairing of devastation and beauty

In a new exhibition, Ansel Adams's iconic nature images are contrasted with Edward Burtynsky's industrial scapes of rock quarries, coal heaps, and rusty ships.

Top picks: Guitar festival redux, 'A Town Called Panic,' 'Rubicon,' and more recommendations

Highlights of Crossroads Guitar Festival in local movie theaters, a marvelously inventive Belgian animated film on DVD, AMC's new espionage series, and more top picks.

Top Picks: 'Toy Story' soundtrack, Lollapalooza, singing for Congo, and more recommendations

Randy Newman's 'Toy Story Favorites' on CD, Chicago's Grant Park music festival, raising awareness of violence in the Congo through music, and more top picks.

Top Picks: 'Through a Dog's Eyes,' 'Climate Refugees,' small donations, and more recommendations

PBS documentary about service dogs on DVD, book about climate displacement, a donation that changes the world, and more top picks.

Top Picks: Whale exhibit, 'The Passage,' veggie swaps, and more recommendations

'Whales Tohorā' at Boston's Museum of Science, Justin Cronin's vampire saga 'The Passage,' veggietrader.com for backyard vegetable growers, and more top picks.

Asia's chess factory: Vietnam trains its youngest to be world-class players

Vietnam adopted the old Soviet model and offers a monthly salary to children as young as 4 who excel in tournaments.

Evolution of the high school poet

A network of after-school programs draws teens into the world of spoken-word and slam poetry.

Top Picks: 'The Last Station,' 'A Capitol Fourth,' Tanglewood, and more recommendations

'The Last Station,' featuring Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy on DVD, PBS hosts 'A Capitol Fourth' from Washington D.C., the annual Tanglewood music festival begins, and more top picks.

Creating art from birds, bugs, and bones

As natural disasters hog the news, these artists reexamine our ties to the mother ship.

'Why design now?' explores ways to solve problems with innovative design.

Solving problems with sustainable – and beautiful – design is the focus of a new exhibition in New York.

'A Prophet': France faces its forgotten prisons

Film noir 'A Prophet' and photo exhibit put France’s crowded prisons on view.

Top Picks: Ellen DeGeneres, Eric Clapton, PBS documentary on William Kunstler, and more recommendations

Ellen DeGeneres' new cable comedy special, Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, lawyer William Kunstler as the subject of a PBS documentary, and more top picks.

Top Picks: 'Shaun the Sheep,' spectacular desserts, 'Foyle's War,' and more recommendations

New 'Shaun the Sheep' DVD from the creators of 'Wallace & Gromit,' cookbook guru Deborah Madison's new book 'Seasonal Fruit Desserts,' British mystery 'Foyle's War' on DVD, and more top picks.

Top Picks: 'Expedition Great White,' Ron Galella documentary, a look at Old Havana, and more recommendations

New series from National Geographic 'Expedition Great White,' documentary 'Smash His Camera' about paparazzo Ron Galella's own life, 'Havana Revisited, a new book on Old Havana, and more top picks.

Top Picks: Robin Hood, 'Life' TV series, Memorial Day concert, and more recommendations

Early Hollywood renditions of Robin Hood on DVD for first time, 'Life' TV series narrated by Oprah Winfrey on DVD, National Memorial Day Concert airs on PBS May 30, and more top picks.

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