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Actor Seymour Cassel has roles in the new TV series Heist and the film Lonesome Jim. Cassel, who comes from a showbiz family, has been acting in film and TV since 1959. His mother worked in Burlesque, and Cassel grew up backstage, amid chorus girls and sequins.

Amy Walters sends an audio postcard from New Orleans, where she recently attended a 29-hour "high art bacchanal" -- a Bach/Shakespeare festival.

Dada was an absurd, outrageous, puzzling international art movement inspired by World War I. It used art to comment on the modern world its hypocrisies that wiped out a generation.

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell talks with Scott Simon about how American movies have dealt with racial issues over the years. This year's Oscar nominee Crash expands the debate beyond black and white.

The Getty Villa, which houses the Getty's collection of Roman, Greek and Etruscan art, reopened in Malibu after a renovation. The villa has a legal cloud hanging over some items in the collection, and former curator Marion True is on trial in Italy for her role in what the Italians claim are stolen items.

What are critics are saying about the weekend's movie releases? Films on tap are Basic Instinct 2, Ice Age: The Meltdown and the slimy horror film Slither.

The new anthology Mexico, A Traveler's Literary Companion takes us deep inside the imagination of a country through its fiction. Many of the stories are translated to English for the first time. Editor and translator C.M. Mayo tells John Ydstie about the book.

Rhett Miller, the charismatic frontman for alt-country favorites Old 97's, has just released arguably his most commercially accessible disc, The Believer. "Question" closes the album with a sweet slice-of-life sketch detailing a marriage proposal.

Some of the most treasured paintings by one of Austria's greatest artists have a new home -- in Los Angeles. The five paintings by Gustav Klimt were the objects of a long-running legal battle between a Jewish family that once owned the art and the Austrian government.

A coalition of botanists, farmers, chefs and anthropologists is working to catalog North America's native foods -- from the mule deer to the tepary bean. The goal is to preserve food traditions among local chefs and gardeners.