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The 2003 film Shattered Glass explores the story of Stephen Glass, a journalist caught fabricating stories for The New Republic. Director Billy Ray drew inspiration from another cinematic exploration of journalism ethics: All the President's Men. It's the latest story in Intersections, a series on artists and their inspirations. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.

Daniel Robinson is a young artist based in the small town of Fossil, Oregon. His paintings, often depicting idealized industrial and rural landscapes, recall the social realist images of the 1930s and '40s. A new exhibition of Robinson's paintings, titled In Oregon, opens at Boston's Mercury Gallery on April 1. NPR's Howard Berkes speaks with Robinson.

For its first 24 years, the Pritzker Architectural Prize was awarded only to men. This year, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born Briton who has pushed the boundaries of design for a quarter-century, becomes the first woman to receive the prestigious honor.

Young Adam and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself are both Scottish films starring male leads obsessed with death. But the two movies are really quite different. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a comparison.

From member station WFDD in Winston-Salem, N.C., Stephanie Martin reports that restorers have worked for years without a blueprint to reassemble a jumble of pipes and mashed pieces into the world's largest 18th-century organ. It will be heard in concert tomorrow for the first time in nearly a century.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her latest collection of stories, The Dew Breaker. The interlinking tales reveal the character of a former Haitian torturer who now lives in Queens, New York, and struggles to come to terms with his past.

A century ago, an abandoned young woman took the stage at La Scala in Milan, Italy, and the world met Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini's most famous opera heroine. Her story, set in Japan around 1900, is a tragic one of innocence betrayed. But as NPR's Ketzel Levine reports, Madame Butterfly lives on through an immortal musical score.

NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with composer, singer and cellist Robert Een about his new CD, Mystery Dances. The longtime collaborator of New York composer Meredith Monk has written music for film, theater, and dance, often inspired by the music and sounds of distant cultures.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. But in 1961, he was a student at Saint Paul's prep school in New Hampshire, where he played bass guitar for a band called the Electras. A copy of the band's album sold on eBay this week for more than $2,500. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

The Return of the King, the last film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, leads the Academy Awards race with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director. Master and Commander gets 10 Oscar nods. With her film Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola becomes the first American woman to be nominated for best director. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and reporter Pat Dowell.