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Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum talks about her recent column, "Art as Child's Play," in which she examines the work of 4-year-old painting prodigy Marla Olmstead. A new film, My Kid Could Paint That, revives the question: What is art?

Affluent professionals in India are doing what the affluent always have done: collecting art. But as prices soar, the quality of art — and of conservatorial facilities — isn't necessarily keeping pace.

As host of the NPR news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal spends a lot of time reading the newspaper. Lately, he's also spent many an hour going to strip joints, a swingers club, a porn-movie set and casinos. All research, of course, for his new project, The Book of Vice.

Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent," is a writer, television producer, and stand-up comic. He worked on In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and was a consulting producer on NBC's The Office. This interview originally aired June 5, 2007.

New Jersey native Stacey Kent is a well-known jazz vocalist in Europe. Her new album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, comes out this week.

Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: The Lovely Bones centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Her latest, The Almost Moon, features a middle-aged woman who murders her ailing elderly mother.

More than two dozen shows on Broadway went dark Saturday, as stagehands — who have been engaged in a bitter contract dispute with producers — went on strike. No new negotiations have been scheduled.

A comedy from dysfunctional-family expert Noah (The Squid and the Whale) Baumbach, starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters who loathe each other — what's not to like?

Gangster movies tend to do well at the box office -- from James Cagney in The Public Enemy to Denzel Washington in American Gangster. Guests and callers weigh in on what is it about gangster allure that movie watchers find so enjoyable.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new DVD of The Threepenny Opera. G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of the Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill musical, with Weill's wife Lotte Lenya as Jenny, is newly out from the Criterion Collection.