Elizabeth Blair
Elizabeth Blair is a Peabody Award-winning senior producer/reporter on the Arts Desk of NPR News.
Blair produces, edits, and reports arts and cultural segments for NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. In this position, she has reported on a range of topics from arts funding to the MeToo movement. She has profiled renowned artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Mikhail Baryshnikov, explored how old women are represented in fairy tales, and reported the origins of the children's classic Curious George. Among her all-time favorite interviews are actors Octavia Spencer and Andy Serkis, comedians Bill Burr and Hari Kondabolu, the rapper K'Naan, and Cookie Monster (in character).
Blair has overseen several, large-scale series including The NPR 100, which explored landmark musical works of the 20th Century, and In Character, which probed the origins of iconic American fictional characters. Along with her colleagues on the Arts Desk and at NPR Music, Blair curated American Anthem, a major series exploring the origins of songs that uplift, rouse, and unite people around a common theme.
Blair's work has received several honors, including two Peabody Awards and a Gracie. She previously lived in Paris, France, where she co-produced Le Jazz Club From Paris with Dee Dee Bridgewater, and the monthly magazine Postcard From Paris.
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In his new Netflix comedy special, "What Had Happened Was," Jamie Foxx reveals he had a brain bleed and a stroke. -
The stars came out to celebrate this year's Kennedy Center Honorees: Bonnie Raitt, the Grateful Dead, Arturo Sandoval, Francis Ford Coppola and The Apollo. The Honors broadcast on CBS on Dec. 22.
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A Danish museum has agreed to return the bronze head of a Roman Emperor to Turkey. The sculpture was among thousands of artifacts looted from Turkey and sold to American and European museums. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 3, 2024.)
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NPR staff recommend four young adult novels: "Heir," "Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet," "The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette For Young Ladies of Mad Science," and "Dragonfruit."
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A Danish museum has agreed to return the bronze head of a Roman Emperor to Turkey. The sculpture was among thousands of artifacts looted from Turkey and sold to American and European museums.
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Comedian D.J. Demers is hard-of-hearing. He's appeared on Conan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and America's Got Talent. He recently dropped his fourth comedy special and he's about to tour the U.S. Demers gets a lot of his material from his experiences living with a disability but doesn't let it define his act.
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Usage of the word soared after TikToker Jools Lebron used it in her signature catchphrase "very demure, very mindful." -
Comedian D.J. Demers is hard-of-hearing. He stars in a CBC sitcom he created and recently dropped his fourth comedy special.(Story aired on All Things Considered on Nov. 25, 2024.)
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Demers was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 4 years old. As a kid, he saw nothing funny about it — but then he learned to make people laugh. He just dropped his fourth stand-up special. -
Many arts organizations in the U.S. receive grants from various federal agencies, but the amount the government spends on the arts can change. So what will arts funding look like in Trump's next term?
