Kurt Andersen and novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talk about dreams. We’ll lie down in Marina Abramovic’s "Dream Bed," a sculpture that lets visitors take a nap. We’ll hear about jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who dreamt he could play three horns at once and made it a reality. And we’ll look at an American Icon that has been adored, fetishized, and mutilated: the Barbie doll.
Barbie
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Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniDreams
Dreams have always provided rich material for artists, and interpreting dreams can be as fun as interpreting art. This week in Studio 360, Kurt Andersen and the novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni look at artists who use their sleeping hours to gather raw material.
Dream Catcher
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz is most famous for his novels about modern Cairo, including Palace Walk, but his latest book isn't exactly fiction. When he was 83 years old, Mahfouz survived a stabbing by Islamic extremists. During his long convalescence, he published accounts of his dreams in ...
Big Dreams
One of the most innovative jazz musicians of the '60s and '70s, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was most famous for playing three or four wind instruments simultaneously. He got this idea -- and many others -- from a vivid dream. Simon Rentner found out ...
Dream Bed
Artist Marina Abramovic encourages you not only to touch her art installation piece, "Dream Bed," she wants you to lie right down inside it and record what happens next. WBUR's Sean Cole stopped by for a nap.
American Icon: Barbie
How did the Barbie doll become such a powerful symbol and ubiquitous toy? For our ongoing series on American Icons, we look at how Barbie started, how she endured, and what her future may hold. Produced by Studio 360's Leital Molad with production help from
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A very interesting story and exhibit. As a painter myself, I use mathmatics in all of my paintings. Although not ...
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Eve Beglarian's Mississippi experience music touched me deeply.
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