COVER STORY
The Nude
Kurt Andersen and choreographer Bill T. Jones talk about how artists, dancers, filmmakers, and photographers use nakedness in beautiful and shocking ways.

Painting the Nude
Every couple of years a group in Washington DC takes over a giant space, such as an abandoned warehouse, and fills it with works by more than 700 artists. The project is called Art-o-Matic. We discovered that a great number of the paintings at Art-o-Matic are pictures of people not wearing clothes. Produced by Richard Paul.
See Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
See Goya's Maja paintings
Go to Art-o-Matic

Damali Ayo
"Nude" isn't just the state of nakedness, it's the name of a color - you've seen it on the side of the pinkish "flesh" crayon and on packages of women's hosiery. The artist and writer Damali Ayo decided to create a series of paintings based on a different tone of nude -- her own, un-pink skin. So she visited a series of paint stores, took along her tape recorder, and asked for help from the staff behind the counters. Produced by Dmae Roberts.Funding provided by Hearing Voices through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Go to Damali Ayo's site
Go to Hearing Voices

Spencer Tunick
Over the past 10 years, the artist Spencer Tunick has probably photographed more naked people than any person on earth. You may have seen him fill Times Square with nude volunteers in an installation that HBO chronicled in a documentary. He's been arrested repeatedly for "unlawful assemblies" but the courts repeatedly uphold his right to do what he does. Last year Tunick's work reached a new zenith when he photographed more than 7,000 naked people in Barcelona. Now, he's back in the US working on a new, more intimate, series of works. Produced by Matt Holzman.
Go to Spencer Tunick's site

SPECIAL GUEST
Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones is a choreographer and performer in the forefront of contemporary dance. He co-founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Now celebrating its twentieth anniversary season, the company has over 75 dances in repertory, and has performed in more than 130 American cities and 30 countries. Jones has created works by commission from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Berkshire Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, Lincoln Center's Serious Fun Festival, and others. His memoirs, Last Night on Earth, were published in 1995.
Go to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

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Bronx Charter School for the Arts
A few months ago, we introduced you to the Bronx Charter School for the Arts--a new public elementary school in an economically struggling section of New York City. Alicia Zuckerman caught up with the students and teachers backstage before their first public performance.
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