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Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas tied up an emaciated dog and reportedly left it to starve. In considering whether such projects constitute art, New York University professor Randy Martin discusses the shocking, the controversial and the profound.

The teenage Russian athlete landed one of the hardest jumps in figure skating — one that is so difficult, no other woman ever performed it at an Olympics before — and then she did it a second time.

Greenwood says writing the music for The Power of the Dog allowed him to experiment by mixing a banjo and a string quartet. He also recently scored Spencer and Licorice Pizza.

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli reviews DVD collections of British TV shows, including a few series that have never before been televised in the U.S. Highlights include Fortysomething, a six-part comedy series starring Hugh Laurie, and Helen Mirren at the BBC.

Director Edgar Wright and actor-writer Simon Pegg came to prominence in England with their TV sitcom Spaced, and made a worldwide splash with the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. Their latest collaboration, a parody of Hollywood police shoot-em-ups called Hot Fuzz, is set in a buccolic English village where things just aren't the way they seem.

In this week's installment of Summary Judgment from online magazine Slate, we'll hear about the critics' verdicts on this week's new movies: Meet the Robinsons, The Lookout and Blades of Glory.

Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill recently won a coveted Peabody Award for their documentary Baghdad ER, which takes viewers inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the U.S. Army's primary medical facility in Iraq. Sometimes unflinchingly graphic in its reportage, the film tells the stories of the hospital's doctors and wounded soldiers.

Comedian and actor Will Ferrell stars in the new film Blades of Glory. He plays a former Olympic ice skater who, banned from competition with a rival (Jon Heder of Napoleon Dynamite fame), discovers a loophole: they can compete as a pair.

Ken Loach's film The Wind That Shakes the Barley examines the early days of the Irish Republican Army and the radical organization's impact on the Irish people. Some British papers have criticized Loach for making the movie.

Actress and foster-care advocate Victoria Rowell talks about her new memoir The Women Who Raised Me. She pays tribute to the many women who cared for her and inspired her to become a success.