Filmmaker R.J. Cutler has covered politics and race -- now he's turned to another combustible topic: fashion. For "The September Issue," he goes behind the scenes at Vogue and watches its imperious editor Anna Wintour and her creative director Grace Coddington at work. Wintour "seems ...

Don Draper represents a version of masculinity a lot of guys today never knew. The fictional character played by John Hamm in AMC's "Mad Men," is a 1960s ad man who's serious, well-dressed, and secretive. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky tries to understand ...

When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art decided to sell textiles from its collection, artist Robert Fontenot snapped up 50 items and started recycling them. Kurt talks with Fontenot and LACMA curator Rita Gonzales.

Lorrie Moore's new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is about a young woman who gets a job as a nanny for a family in her Midwestern college town. Moore tells Kurt how living in the Midwest shaped her view of the post-September 11th era.

Remember the eerie flying saucer sound effect from old B-movies? It's produced by a theremin, the only instrument you play without touching. Kurt gets a lesson from theremin virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin. Produced by Amanda Aronczyk.
Kurt Andersen Learns To Play The Theremin

In the 1950s, Paulus Berensohn, now 77, studied dance at Juilliard, performed on Broadway, and worked with modern dance legends like Merce Cunningham and Mary Anthony. Then, in his mid-20s, it occurred to him: what would it mean to dance, not just on the stage, but in ...