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COVER STORY
Watching
Kurt Andersen and writer Bill Buford talk about the
seduction and dangers of watching.
 
Medea
Last year theater audiences gazed at Fiona Shaw, who
had the title role in a Broadway production of Medea by Euripedes. She
portrayed a woman who murders her children as revenge against Jason, her
unfaithful husband. Shaw, the New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley
and the play's director, Deborah Warner, talk about the spectacular and
the tragic in Medea. Produced by Leital Molad.
 Go
to the Connection's show on Fiona Shaw's Medea
Go
to Ben Brantley's New York Times review of Medea
Watching Arnold Mesches
When the painter Arnold Mesches began making political
artwork in the 1950s--including one painting series on the Rosenberg trials--someone
else began surveillance of the painter's life. Produced by Karen Michel.
More
on Mesches' FBI Files exhibit
More
about Mesches' book, " The FBI Files"
Scanner
Almost all of us, given the opportunity, indulge the
eavesdropping urge, especially when overhearing cell phone conversations.
The sound artist known as "Scanner" has been incorporating the
frequency band of cell phones in his work since the early 1990s. Produced
by Michael Raphael.
Go
to Scanner’s official site
Go
to Bip-Hop records for info on Scanner’s new release
Go
to Scanner's own Bette Label
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Bill Buford
Bill Buford writes for the New Yorker and was the
Fiction editor of the magazine for eight years. Before that he was the
editor of the literary quarterly Granta. He's now working on three different
non-fiction books, including one called Spying on My Neighbors. His book
Heat: The Adventures of an Amateur Chef as Kitchen Slave, Mountain Pasta
Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher on a Hilltop Town in
Tuscany, comes out in November 2004.
More
about Bill Buford
Go
to a interview with Bill Buford at bookmagazine.com
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Playing
Candide. In 1956 Leonard Bernstein and Lillian
Hellman staged a musical out of Voltaire's Candide -- the satiric French
novel from 1759 that made a laughingstock of optimism. The Bernstein/Hellman
musical was one of the most esteemed failures in American theatre. Over
the years, Candide has been revived many times. The New York Philharmonic
made the magnificent overture to Candide a signature piece, and next
week (May 5th- 8th), for the first time, the Philharmonic will play
the entire score, with Kristin Chenoweth and Paul Groves singing the
leads. Sara Fishko looks back at the life of this unique musical.
Go
to a website with an overview of Candide
Read
the full Text
Art
Guard
Meet the guy at the other end of that security
camera. Bob Rini is a security guard at Seattle's Henry Art Museum.
He spends his days watching people who are watching art. Then he goes
home and makes art. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
Go
to Robert Rini’s official site
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