Anne Azzi Davenport is a Senior Producer at PBS News Hour. With a focus on arts and culture, she leads the CANVAS program, overseeing coverage of topics ranging from music and entertainment to societal issues, while also supervising series like Brief But Spectacular and Race Matters. Anne has been featured in PBS, highlighting her extensive experience in the field and her commitment to bringing diverse cultural narratives to the forefront.
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By: Hunter Bonaparte, Amalia Huot-Marchand, Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Best-selling author Dave Eggers has a new novel out this week, telling the story of two art-obsessed friends over many decades. There’s much more to the author’s own story as well. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports from San Francisco for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Hunter Bonaparte, Jiaya Echevarria, Amna Nawaz, Anne Azzi Davenport
The Shockoe Institute in Richmond, Virginia, opened its doors this spring to try to open minds about the enduring impact of enslavement and how to seek solutions to improve civic life now. Amna Nawaz has a look at the effort for our Art in Action series, exploring how art and democracy shape one another, as part of our CANVAS coverage.
By: Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
There's a new museum in Philadelphia, but its building and mission date back to before this country was founded. Senior…
By: Anne Azzi Davenport, Nadya Ellerhorst
Imagine a world 400 years in the future, where a young woman is forced into exile after discovering she carries a rare gene linked to extraordinary power and immortality. That's the premise of a new opera opening in Cincinnati. PBS stations CET and ThinkTV take us behind the scenes for a look at the project and the new direction it's taking opera. It's for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Kayan Taraporevala, Anne Azzi Davenport, Geoff Bennett
The music of Hermanos Gutiérrez carries listeners across imagined landscapes, blending Latin, surf rock, folk and cinematic Western sounds into new instrumental journeys. Now the brothers are turning their gaze homeward, drawing on the traditions of their family's roots in Ecuador and Peru. Geoff Bennett sat down with Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Azhar Merchant, Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
An advisory council packed with Trump allies voted to weaken federal oversight of construction projects affecting historic sites. Critics are concerned that this move will open the floodgates to endangering preservation of historic and cultural places across the country. Jeffrey Brown discussed more with Phillip Kennicott of The Washington Post. It's for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Anne Azzi Davenport, Jeffrey Brown, Hunter Bonaparte
Richard Russo has penned 10 novels, won the Pulitzer Prize, and collaborated on screen adaptations and TV series based on his work. In his latest book, "Under the Falls," Russo continues to revisit the community of his youth. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown visited him for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Anne Azzi Davenport, Kayan Taraporevala, Geoff Bennett
Riley Downing is a founding member of The Deslondes, the New Orleans Americana band known for its earthy mix of country soul and roots music. Now on his second solo album, "Landfill Poetry," Downing turns stories from his days working as a trash collector in Missouri into songs about the overlooked corners of American life. Geoff Bennett spoke with him for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
By: Anne Azzi Davenport, Jeffrey Brown
Artist Alex Katz is an American great who just celebrated his 99th birthday. What better way to celebrate than to…
By: Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
In our news wrap Wednesday, the jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial remains deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict, Tiger Woods will have his driver's license suspended for five years as part of a plea deal related to a car crash near his Florida home and officials from the U.S. and Venezuela signed a series of deals to develop the country's oil reserves.
