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COVER STORY
Materials
Kurt Andersen and Paola Antonelli look at the how
materials shape the way artists and designers work.
 Artsmith
Thousands of years ago people learned that if they
melted a soft red dirt with limestone to draw out its impurities, the
resulting metal would cool to be terribly strong. Blacksmiths could form
the hot iron into a sword or a helmet, or into a chandelier. Blacksmiths
who make decorative iron are known as artsmiths. Studio 360's Peter Clowney
talked to Chicago artsmith Richard Pozniak and asked him to demonstrate
the craft.
Matthew
Barney
Last month, the Guggenheim Museum unveiled one of
the art world's most anticipated spectacles: an exhibition of Matthew
Barney's Cremaster cycle. In the films and sculptures that make up the
Cremaster cycle, Barney makes bizarre use of everyday materials, including
concrete, tapioca, Vaseline and rock salt. While the show was being installed,
Studio 360's David Krasnow met with Barney and his crew.
Go to the official Matthew Barney site
Go to the Guggenheim's Cremaster site
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Maple Tree, 4 Instruments
The harmonies of a string quartet come from the score
and the players of course, but also from the instruments themselves. Sara
Fishko talked to the Miro Quartet, whose members are experimenting with
the sounds that can be created from one old maple tree.
Go to the official site of the Miro Quartet
What's
At Hand
Ray Matterson was in prison for an armed robbery he
committed with a toy gun to support his cocaine habit. He spent the first
year of his seven and a half-year jail term being mad at the world and
angry with himself for what he had done. And then he found a kind of redemption...in
a pair of socks. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to a Raw Vision article on Ray Materson
SPECIAL GUEST
Paola Antonelli
 Paola
Antonelli is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has curated several MOMA exhibitions
including Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995) and Workspheres
(2001) devoted to workplaces of the future. She holds a master's degree
in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan and lectures on design at
Harvard University. (Photo courtesy Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.)
Go to MoMA's Architecture & Design Department
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Daniel
Libeskind
Kurt Andersen talks to architect Daniel Libeskind
about urban planning, music, and his vision for the World Trade Center
site. Produced by Michele Siegel.
Go to the official site for Studio Daniel Libeskind
View plans and images for the WTC site
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Design
for the Real World
Graphic Designer Steven Heller soaks up the
aesthetics of the paper towel. Produced by Leital Molad.
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