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COVER STORY
Light
Kurt Andersen and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at
the ways artists, dancers, and filmmakers play with light.
 Cinematographer
John Bailey
On the movie set of the "Divine Secrets
of the Ya Ya Sisterhood" with an artist whose medium is light and shadow.
Produced by Leta Hartman.
 Go
to American Society of Cinematographers website
 Lisa
Yuskavage and Johannes Vermeer
A contemporary artist of luminous paintings visits
the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit - "Vermeer and the Delft School,"
and shares her passion for the 16th Century Dutch master of light on canvas.
Produced by Julie Burstein and Jan Werner. (Photo
right: Vermeer's Girl with the Red Hat.)
Go
to Institute of Contemporary Art (Yuskavage's show)
Go
to National Gallery of Art website
Go
to Metropolitan Museum website
Go
to a new biography of Vermeer
 Loie
Fuller, Goddess Of Light
Through her pioneering dance performances at the turn
of the last century, Loie Fuller magically captured the theatrical possibilities
of light. Produced by Harriet Baskas. (Photo right: choreographer Jody
Sperling recreates Fuller's work.)
Go
to a short profile of Loie Fuller
Go
to the first chapter of a Loie Fuller biography
Go
to the Loie Fuller Collection at the NY Public Library
Father
of the Laser Light Show
On the domed ceilings of planetariums all over the
country laser-painted psychedelic images move to the music of Led Zeppelin
and Pink Floyd. Ivan Dryer is the visionary behind the teenage rite of
passage-- the Laserium. Produced by Kerrie Hillman.
Go
to Laserium's website
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein is the author of Properties of Light:
A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, The Mind Body Problem,
and Strange Attractors. She holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from Princeton
University and in 1996 was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Go
to a portrait of Rebcca Goldstein
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Anonymity.
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Playing
Musical chameleon Elvis Costello continues
to defy classification on his new album, For the Stars, a highly unusual
collaboration with mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie Von Otter. Produced by
Judith Kampfner.
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