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The Prospect 1 New Orleans project is slated to open in November. Dan Cameron, the director of the Contemporary Arts Center, aims to create a citywide, international art event akin to the Venice Bienanle. He sees it as a promotional and healing tool for the city.

Alexander Calder is famous for large public art and delicate mobiles. But he also created deceptively simple and elegant jewelry that, for the first time, is the focus of an exhibition. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is its initial stop on an international tour.

For nearly a quarter of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln lived not in the White House, but rather three miles away — in a large, airy summer home in Northwest Washington, D.C.

NBC has announced Jay Leno's last day as host of The Tonight Show will be May 29, 2009. Conan O'Brien is to be the show's new host. This may set off a game of musical chairs in late-night if Leno wants to stay on television and goes to another network.

In New York this week, two unlikely groups came together: war veterans and modern dancers. Dancers kicked, twisted and jumped on and around retired airplanes from the 1930s and 1940s in a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field.

Sometimes that 15 minutes of fame turns into an hour. Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin present the promo for a fictional epic called Joe the Plumber — it's the story about the one man equipped to fix the nation's plugged up economy.

Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters on the small and big screens died Tuesday. He was 91. Melendez animated TV specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas and was the voice of Snoopy.

The new HBO mini-series Generation Kill focuses its lens on March 2003, when the U.S. first went to war in Iraq. Susanna White, one of the directors of the miniseries, talks with Linda Wertheimer about creating a realistic depiction of the start of war.

The movie Speed Racer opens Thursday. It's based on the Japanese animated series that was a hit with American kids in the late 1960s. The movie is directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, who directed The Matrix.

The coyote population in America is growing, from the biggest cities to the open range.