Can art affect social change? This is the question put forth by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz in Waste Land, a new film about a community art project he initiated in a “town of garbage.” The location, ...

How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? Should we read poetry, for example, with an eye on biography, or merely focus on ...

In Star Trek there’s the “prime directive,” Starfleet’s code of noninterference. What do filmmakers abide by? Should documentaries interfere with their subjects’ lives? But how could they not? I don’t ...

One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...

Photo from the film "Waste Land," Artwork Courtesy of Vik Muniz Studio. Jeffrey Brown spoke with "Waste Land" director Lucy Walker last year about the film for NewsHour Art Beat. Since its release, ...

“We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary ...

This article has been updated below. “Waste Land” is a vibrant and exciting documentary about the unlikely collaboration between Vik Muniz, a prominent Brazilian-born artist who now lives and works in ...

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One of the powers of great portraiture is its ability to make us wonder about the complete strangers captured within enigmatic works of art. Vik Muniz’s recent series does that: After years of ...