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COVER STORY
Preservation
Kurt Andersen and award-winning radio producer David
Isay talk about the art of preservation.
  Disappearing
Drafts
With the ease of editing on computers, many authors
no longer scrawl changes in the margins of their manuscripts, and historians
may have lost a significant step to understanding writers' creative processes.
Produced by Marit Haahr.
 Go
to Mark Twain manuscripts at Berkeley
Go
to Mark Twain at the U. of Virginia website
Go
to Mark Twain quotations website
Sacred
Harp
A singular American music that started
in Puritan New England, moved to the deep south, and gradually died out.
Correspondent Elizabeth Yates McNamee explores the music's unearthly allure
for people across the country who are part of a contemporary Sacred Harp
resurgence.
Go
to the grandmammy of sacerd harp websites
Go
to Sacred Harp singing convention website
Go
to Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp convention website
Conserving
the Contemporary
Modern artists work with unusual materials that pose
intriguing preservation challenges to museum conservators. Produced by
Donna Gallers.
Go
to picture of Chocolate Gnaw, by Janine Antoni
Go
to Buffalo State's conservation program website
Go
to American Institute for Conservation website
 Sound
Portrait
Studio 360's own archivist and master conservator and
preservator of sound, Andy Lanset demonstrates how to clean 60 years of
dust off of some radio treasures. Produced by Steve Nelson.
Go
to Archivist Andy Lanset's website
SPECIAL GUEST
 David
Isay
David Isay is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions.
His public radio documentaries include Ghetto Life 101, The Sunshine Hotel,
and Witness to an Execution, which just won the Peabody Award. David is
currently producing the Yiddish Radio Project, unearthing and retelling
the story of the golden age of Yiddish Radio, for broadcast on public
radio in late 2001. He was a 2000 recipient of the MacArthur Award.
Go
to MacArthur Fellow's website
Go
to Sound Portraits Productions website
Go
toYiddish Radio Project website
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Commentary
Multi-talented Boundary-Crossing Artists.
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Design
for the Real World
The Stop Sign: Graphic Designer Stephen Heller
gives insight on the street sign no one can ignore.
How
Art Works
Denis Pelli, a professor of psychology and
neural science at NYU, describes how the grid paintings of Chuck Close
led him to a significant neurological discovery. Produced by Jocelyn
Gonzales.
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the Science magazine article
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