COVER STORY
Danger
Kurt Andersen and the choreographer Elizabeth Streb explore the dangerous sides of creating dance, music, and sculpture.

Fire Vortex
Ned Kahn is a sculptor with dangerous dreams. When a museum in Switzerland asked him what he’d always wanted to make but couldn’t quite pull off, he answered: A tornado made of fire. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to Ned Kahn’s website
Go to the Technorama museum website

Toxic Materials
The life of the average artist is not known for a sense of security. Most will gain little money, status, or recognition. They may dream of these things, but what many artists should be yearning for more than anything is… health insurance. Sarah Lilley explains why.
Go to Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
Go to Goya's "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons"
Go to Gamble Staempfli's site
Go to a website with more information about art hazards

Musical Injuries
We’ve all heard stories about sports and dance injuries that abruptly end careers, but musicians actually face as many physical risks as professional athletes. When trumpeter Matthew Steinfeld injured his mouth and couldn’t make his horn create a decent sound, he felt helpless. Hillary Frank has the story.
Go to the Tanglewood website
Go to Dr. Dick Stasney’s website
Go to the Dystonia foundation’s website
Find out more about brass players’ maladies

SPECIAL GUEST
Elizabeth Streb
Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer with few boundaries. She combines elements of dance, athletics, extreme-sports, circus arts, and action-movie stunt work into a new kind of movement, where she and her dancers dive through glass and fly on the trapeze. In 1997 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' award. She is currently the 'Dean's Special Scholar' at the Draper Program at New York University, working toward an M.A. in Time and Space.
Go to Elizabeth Streb’s website

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Commentary
Monkey See . . .
When a recent scientific study proved that celebrity worship comes naturally to rhesus monkeys as well as humans, Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen wondered which primate has more discerning taste.
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Read more about the rhesus monkeys

How Art Works: The TAT
One of the best known personality tests is the Thematic Apperception Test, which asks patients to imagine a story based on a picture of an ambiguous scene. The "TAT" is undergoing its biggest overhaul since its creation 70 years ago, which means psychologists are having to think deeply about composing pictures. Lu Olkowski wanted to know what clinical psychologists look for in a painting.
Read an article about these tests
Purchase A Practical Guide to the Thematic Appereption Test: The TAT in Clinical Practice

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