Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes talk to Kurt Andersen about their new film Art School Confidential. Novelist Tony Hendra talks about new book . And we’ll travel back to the day when Bell Labs was like Paris in the 1920s – a hotbed of unfettered creativity that churned out inventions, patens and Nobel Prizes.
Still Image from the movie: "Art School Confidential"
(Photo by Suzanne Hanover, courtesy of United Artists/Sony Pictures Classics)
The Messiah of Morris Avenue
In the near future America will have gone completely Christian, Hollywood will be renamed Holywood and Jesus will hail from The Bronx. That is, if all goes according to Tony Hendra's new novel, The Messiah Of Morris Avenue. Hendra talks with Kurt Andersen about ...
Fwd This: Prom Song
As part of our regular series on forwarded emails, Kurt Andersen muses on a web video that features a teenage girl, a prom song and her grandma.
Cell Tower
Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and—Eureka!-he was inspired to make a major breakthrough in biology. Lu Olkowski reports on the unlikely epiphany.
Bell Labs
Think of just about any product in your house-your TV, radio, microwave, telephone—if Bell Laboratory didn't invent it, they probably perfected it. As part of our on-going series on science and creativity, Michelle Mercer looks back at the little New Jersey lab that changed the world.
Baroque Software
Can a computer compose Baroque music as well as Bach? Some programmers and musicologists are trying to find out. Jeff Lunden explains why.
Art School Confidential
Comic book artist Dan Clowes and filmmaker Terry Zwigoff have brought their endearing misanthropy twice to the big screen-first in 2001 with Ghost World and now with the new film Art School Confidential. Zwigoff and Clowes curb their enthusiasm with Kurt ...
What's the Matter With Kids These Days?
Kurt Andersen wonders why everyone is "shocked, shocked!" that Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan allegedly plagiarized her debut novel. The real scandal was the fact that a college student was going to be launched as a pre-fabricated literary superstar.
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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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