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The slow-moving Chinese martial art tai chi is known to increase flexibility and balance. Now, research suggests it's more effective at reducing blood pressure than more vigorous forms of exercise.

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. From race to gender to profession, there are many ways we define who we are. But at what point does focusing on our differences hurt more than it helps? Political scientist Yascha Mounk weighs in. Then, why art museums are losing their marbles.

Stream now with KPBS Passport + YouTube / Watch Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art. From its groundbreaking architecture to its statues, mosaics, and frescos, Rome engineered bigger and better than anyone before. At its peak, the Roman Empire was a society of unprecedented luxury, with colossal arenas for entertaining the masses and giant monuments to egotistical emperors. And then it fell.

Although not as well known as contemporaries like Dalí and Ernst, Fini was part of every major Surrealist exhibition. And her personal life was almost as fantastic as her Surrealist art.

It’s all about the BUBBLES when Italian clown and actor Michele Cafaggi comes to town! Michele Cafaggi studied acting, circus arts, mime, clowning, and theatrical improvisation between Milan and Paris and has performed in research theater and company theater. But he found his true calling when he became the first artist in Italy to develop a giant bubble technique to create an entire theatrical show dedicated to soap bubbles. Since 1993 he has performed as a street and theater artist in Italy and across four continents and 20 countries, collaborating with theatres, youth aggregation centers, retirement homes, prisons, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals. Now it’s time for his giant bubbles to take over San Diego! *Part of The ConRAD Kids Series. 2 performance times; 10:00 AM & 11:30 AM*

A new documentary celebrates how millions of children learned the power of drawing from PBS television art educator Mark Kistler.

This group ranges from a fabulous collection by contemporary, neurodiverse artists to Milton Glaser's pop art, and Aino and Alvar Aalto's Finnish modernist designs to a survey of Islamic architecture.

Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut.

This weekend in the arts: "Our Ancestors' Dream" at The Front; "Little Shop of Horrors"; the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival; 25 years of Oceanside Museum of Art; and the San Diego Symphony performs Beethoven's 5th and more.

You’re never too old! Create your own fuzzy Monster! Saturday, October 28 from 1 – 5 p.m. Ages 12+ years or children 6-11 years if accompanied by an adult welcome! Create a professional arm-rod-and-mouth puppet of your very own from Rene Rubalcava, owner and puppeteer of LV Puppet Studio of Las Vegas who learned the art of puppet making from a Jim Henson Muppeteer. What better time to create your own one-of-a-kind fuzzy monster than October?! In this workshop, we guide you from start to finish as you select, cut, hot glue and assemble the pieces and personality of your own customized puppet. No sewing is required in this workshop. Students bring their puppets to life with their own unique interests and imaginations, and by choice and placement of different face details. Each one is unique! Find your puppet’s voice and learn some puppetry basics. All materials included. No experience necessary! • Scholarships available • Military and sibling discounts San Diego Craft Collective on Facebook