Spring Songs
Birds are twittering, bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming. Kurt Andersen waxes pastoral about the music of spring, from "Peer Gynt" to Stravinsky's furious "Rite of Spring" to the teenage migration at Daytona Beach.
Chasing Spring
Spring can seem all too fleeting. Bruce Stutz wanted to soak in the season in all its glory. He headed south to where springtime was first hitting the US and chronicled the blossoming, from butterfly migrations to small-town Mardi Gras. Stutz discusses his new book Chasing Spring with Kurt Andersen.
Web Bonus: Light of Spring
Kurt Andersen asks meteorologist Adam Sobel and landscape painter April Gornik what makes spring so special. Webcast only at studio360.org.
- View April Gornik's paintings
- Go to Adam Sobel's web page
- Buy April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings by Donald Kuspit
Wim Wenders
More than 20 years ago, the German film director Wim Wenders made a big splash in America with Paris, Texas. Wenders' new film Don't Come Knocking shares a lot with Paris, Texas -- the Western geography, similar themes and another collaboration with Sam Shepard. Wenders talks about how his films have been shaped by Edward Hopper, Gary Cooper, and Bono.
- Visit the official website for Don't Come Knocking (Sony Classics)
- Visit Wim Wenders' Official Website
- Buy Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas
Spam Poetry
We're all too familiar with junk mail that offers to enlarge body parts or reduce mortgages. Most of us delete these messages right away. Mallory Kasdan finds unexpected art in her pile of unsolicited emails.
