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Posted on March 11, 2009 · The month's free Artful Thursday program, March 12, 2009, beginning at 6:30 pm in the Caroline Wiess Law Building of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, bears the intriguing title, The Song of the Scapegoat: The Birth of Greek Tragedy. In less than a century, the poets of Fifth-Century B.C. Athens gave birth to and then perfected the genre of Greek Tragedy.  Second only to the epics of Homer in their exalted scope and high seriousness, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides invited their audiences to participate in and endure titanic struggles between men and gods, order and chaos, justice and revenge, guilt and expiation.

Posted on February 25, 2009 · In anticipation of this month's Artful Thursday and in conjunction with the Houston Center for Photography's exhibition Beauty Knows No Pain, KUHF's Eric Ladau interviews O. Rufus Lovett, author of the book Kilgore Rangerettes.

Posted on May 12, 2008 · KUHF and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston present this month's installment of Artful Thursday, on Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30 PM in the MFAH's Brown Auditorium.  Carter Smith of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will speak about the work of the Katy Prairie Conservancy.  In this feature, Eric Ladau talks with Mr. Smith and Mary Anne Piacentini, the Executive Director of the Katy Prairie Conservancy.

Posted on October 15, 2007 · October's Artful Thursday features the works of young Latino writers who are featured in a new book "Windows into My World: Young Latinos Write Their Lives." KUHF's Eric Ladau speaks with poet and educator Sarah Cortez about this innovative program.