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The Smithsonian Institution has named Kevin Gover the next director of the National Museum of the American Indian. Gover is a member of the Pawnee tribe and a former director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the Clinton administration.

Started in 2009, Night Markets use rented box trucks to create a cluster of outlandish art installations and performance venues that last just 24 hours. With attractions ranging from smash trucks to singalongs, they bring a feast of the unlikely and unseen to even the wildest of imaginations.

COVID-19 cases in the state are surging and 80,000 vaccine doses are about to expire. Government and health officials are traveling the state, making the case for vaccines as the delta strain spreads.

The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to recommend some good recent reading. Her focus this month: heroism, as embodied by three public figures.

In 2011, a museum depicting the history of organized crime in America will open in downtown Las Vegas. It will be known as the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, or more simply "The Mob Museum." Host Liane Hansen speaks with the city's mayor, Oscar B. Goodman, and the museum project manager, Sam Tolman, about the museum.

A tipping expert tells Morning Edition that the service workers you see regularly are indeed counting on that holiday tip, so don't forget to keep them in mind.

Morning Edition holiday traditions wouldn't be complete without author David Sedaris reading from his memoir, Santaland Diaries about his experience working as a department store elf.

In 1997, host Liane Hansen spoke with David Loxtercamp, author of A Measure of Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor. She follows up with the Maine physician, who says he constantly ponders questions of life, death and faith.

The legendary experimental filmmaker's work is the subject of a career-spanning retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. VanDerBeek merged collage-style filmmaking with new technology throughout his career.

Gov. Sam Brownback recently did away with the state's arts agency — and many in the arts community are up in arms. But some arts advocates argue that being less reliant on government funding is actually a good thing for the arts.