Kurt Andersen talks with theater director Wilson Milam about the challenges of staging a Broadway play with the kind of violence normally reserved for Quentin Tarantino movies. The actors wielding guns and knives on stage don't have the luxury of second takes, and the ...

The reconstruction of New Orleans may be years away, but plans are coming off the drawing board. Andres Duany and his team of "New Urbanists" have come to New Orleans with their vision of the future: 19th century-style town plans that encourage compact living and walkability. That's ...

Asking students to write about a painting or a photo is an old chestnut of creative writing classes. Mickey Clement says a standard exercise like that actually changed her life -- and made her a novelist.

Paola Antonelli, a design curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, appreciates the classic design of this staple of your medicine cabinet.

Artist Clifford Ross was disappointed with the pictures he took on vacation. So he built a new kind of camera with resolution years ahead of digital photography -- and he may have reinvented how we look at pictures. Produced by Andrew Adam Newman.

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall believes there are more dimensions to space - possibly 13 more -- than the three we experience. She's faced the challenge of describing a world that no one can see. Produced by Sarah Lilley.