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COVER STORY
The Bugs
Kurt Andersen and artist Catherine Chalmers talk about
how music, art, and literature explore the creative possibilities of bugs.
 
Jennifer Angus
Jennifer Angus makes art installations in which the
walls look like fancy wallpaper. But when you get close you see that the
patterns are formed by dragon flies and beetles. She pins insects to walls
by the thousand, arranging them in repeating patterns. Producer Sesh Kannan
talked with Angus amid thousands of bugs in her current installation at
the Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Go to the Jennifer Angus website
Go to Insects in rock n' roll - album covers collection
of associate professor Joe Coelho, Culver-Stockton college
Go to the John Michael Koehler Arts Center in Sheboygan,
Wisconsin
Metamorphosis
One of the best known bugs in literature is Gregor
Samsa. He's the protagonist of Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis. Gregor
wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a giant roach. Actor
Danton Stone reads Kafka's opening passages. Produced by Leital Molad.
Miya Masaoka
When Musician Miya Masaoka tours she often sits in
her hotel room for hours, watching her musical collaborators interact.
Her collaborators are Madagascar hissing cockroaches. She has another
composition that she performs with a chorus of bees. Produced by Michael
Raphael.
Go to Miya Masaoka's website
Charlotte's Web
In children's literature, spiders have a history as
heroes. Eric Carle's Very Busy Spider and David Kirk's Miss Spider's Tea
party are both modern classics of arachnophilia. The spider who won our
hearts first, 52 years ago, is Charlotte, the heroine of E.B. White's
Charlotte's Web. The novelist Susan Minot was among the first generation
of Charlotte's Web readers. She reads a passage and explains why she still
loves the book. Produced by Leital Molad.
SPECIAL GUEST
Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers is a photographer and artist who
spends her time with bugs and other small creatures. She takes funny,
and amazing portraits of caterpillars, flies, preying mantises, and grasshoppers.
Lately she's been working a lot with cockroaches, dressing them up as
ladybugs and hanging them from tiny nooses. Her book American Cockroach
(Aperture) molts later this year.
Read about Catherine Chalmers' American Cockroach
series
Go to a preview of Catherine Chalmers' book "Food
Chain: Encounters Between Mates, Predators, and Prey"
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Dave
Brubeck
Jazz legend Dave Brubeck and his wife lola are being honored this week
by the University of the Pacific for their lifelong commitment to social
justice. Brubeck established himself early on with the jazz mega-hit,
Take 5. He's gone on to write many other kinds of music since, including
ballets, song cycles, symphonic and choral works, right alongside his
jazz standards. Sara Fishko recently spoke with the 83-year-old Dave
Brubeck.
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to the Brubeck Instititue website
Go
to the 50th Newport Jazz Festival website
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to The Gates of Justice on Amazon.com
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