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Monday, Nov. 21, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App. Meet two women running a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar torn apart by ethnic violence. The Buddhist owner helps her apprentice part of a Muslim minority group denied their basic rights become a steady health care provider for her people.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist died Friday at age 99. Although he won the Pulitzer for an orchestral work, he was most celebrated for his huge body of art songs — over 500 in all.

More than three years after his tweet, the U.S. government has formally declassified the image from one of its most powerful spy satellites.

FIFA's choice of Qatar to host the World Cup has long been marred by criticism over human rights abuses, the safety of migrant workers and the logistics of holding a soccer tournament in desert heat.

Come Run, Walk & Trot on the River! San Diego River Park Foundation is excited to announce the revival of Riverfest, a family-friendly run and activities that celebrate the preservation of the San Diego River and specifically the "Western 9" (the last nine miles of the San Diego River leading to the Pacific Ocean). Riverfest is on May 22, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.! Come out for our 5K Run, Walk, Talk and a 1K Tot Trot hosted by Milestone Running. We encourage you to dress up as your favorite bird and show your support for our feathered friends. Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place finishers (male/non-binary and female/non-binary) along with other categories. Proceeds go towards supporting and caring for the wildlife, habitat and further research along the San Diego River.

The 15th century was one of astonishing and almost uninterrupted artistic achievements in the area controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy and referred to as the Burgundian Netherlands. Artists from the Burgundian Netherlands extended the boundaries of painting until they seemed as limitless as the blue-tinged mountains of the distant horizons in their masterpieces. This included Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden who became the most renowned painters in Europe. Van Eyck acquired legendary status perfecting impeccable detail with oil paint. This practice clearly distinguishes Northern art from Italian art as well as art from the preceding centuries. Works by these masters were sought by princes and merchants throughout Europe, who prized them for their remarkable qualities of verisimilitude, technical and coloristic virtuosity, and heightened expressive power. This docent-led talk will focus on how Burgundian Netherlandish artists achieved their common goal - to make the painted image vividly present and to render the unseen palpable. Date | Thursday, April 14 from 11 a.m. to noon Location | Online Register here for free! This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please visit timkenmuseum.org/calendar/event/virtual-talk-the-conquest-of-reality-early-netherlandish-painting or contact Alexandra Riley at ariley@timkenmuseum.org or by phone at (619) 550-5955.

This weekend in the arts: Cog•nate Collective at ICA North; LITVAKdance's fall performances; Bocón Arts' "Mía'; the San Diego Symphony with Brahms, Liszt and Wagner; Iranian folk music at UC San Diego; 'As You Like It" at La Jolla Playhouse and more.

NOTE: Extended through Jan. 8, 2022. The 2021 San Diego Art Prize recipients are Beliz Iristay, Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite and Perry Vasquez. To commemorate the prize, the recipients will show new work together in a group exhibition at Bread and salt gallery, opening Oct. 9 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. RELATED: Artist Beliz Iristay's 'Movable' Sense Of Home RELATED: Hugo Crosthwaite: A Life In (Stop) Motion RELATED: Panca's 'El Más Allá' Opens At The New Children's Museum RELATED: The California myth of artist Perry Vasquez Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 9, 5-8 p.m. Bread and Salt gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. From the KPBS/Arts newsletter, Oct. 7, 2021: This weekend, the 2021 San Diego Art Prize exhibition opens at Bread and Salt in Logan Heights, with work from prize winners Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite, Perry Vásquez and Beliz Iristay. The prize has been around since 2006, dreamed up by the San Diego Visual Arts Network, primarily using a mentorship model with two outstanding emerging artists linked with two established artists to create work together. In 2020, the split between emerging and established was set aside, and the four finalists that year (Melissa Walter, Kaori Fukuyama, Alanna Airitam and Griselda Rosas) all agreed to share the honor rather than wait for one winner to be announced, setting the new precedent. I've been following each of the four 2021 artists, and my most recent feature is on Beliz Iristay, who calls Mexico, San Diego and Turkey home — read it here. You can also learn about the way Panca draws on myth and her Tijuana street art roots to invent her own disruptive, vivid and weird narratives. Or read about the way Crosthwaite plays with folklore in his murals and how he uses stop-motion animation to bring portraits, drawings — and his process — to life in my feature here. Artist Perry Vásquez is also having a big month — in addition to showing works in the Art Prize exhibition, he will also open a solo show at Sparks Gallery, "Oasis." All told, he'll be throwing some 75 to 80 works into the world this month alone. I'm especially fond of Vásquez's massive palm tree paintings, including some of them on fire (timely!). He told me that in painting these trees, they become almost sentient. "The format suggests a kind of human-type scale, the anthropomorphic quality. So I feel like I'm painting portraits. I feel like they're very individual," Vásquez said. Watch for my feature on his work next week. Each artist has been busy installing works at the gallery, including a mixture of new works and murals plus older faves we may have seen before. At Saturday's opening reception, stick around for a performance by The Color Forty Nine. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Sign up for the KPBS/Arts newsletter here.

Tess Gunty's "The Rabbit Hutch," a sweeping novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction.

He helped defeat communism, became the first democratically elected president of Poland and was one of the world leaders to bring down the Iron Curtain.