COVER STORY
Couples
Kurt Andersen and the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown talk about the creative lives of couples.

Robert and Clara
Robert and Clara Schumann were one of the most high-powered artistic couples in 19th century Prussia. Clara was a phenomenon for her time as a female keyboard virtuoso and composer and Robert was a composer and an influential critic. Naomi Lewin explains how their marriage could never be separated from their art.
Go to Robert Schumann Society
Go to Classical Music Page on Robert Schumann
Go to Clara Schumann website

Mark and Betsey
Edward Albee is the master playwright of dysfunctional coupledom. His recent play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? portrays the ugly dissolution of a marriage. In a run of The Goat this spring in Kansas City, two married actors, Mark and Betsey Robbins, got to step into Albee’s world of festering half spoken resentments. Sara Lerner asked them what it’s like to pretend to have a bad marriage for an audience.
Go to Unicorn Theater

Georgia and Ira and James
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley are a married couple, and the nucleus of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo. The band’s third member is bassist James McNew. The trio gathered in Studio 360 to talk about how to make gorgeous music as a couple plus one. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Go to Yo La Tengo’s website
Go to Matador Records website about Yo La Tengo

Gilbert & George
Britain’s most enigmatic artistic duo met at art school in 1967 and have been together ever since. They live and work in London's East End, named their house "Art for All," and declared themselves "living sculptures." In their large colorful multi-panel pictures they either wear spotless business suits or they appear naked. They are always together. Could Gilbert & George really be as inseparable as they appear? Judith Kampfner went to their house and studio in Spitalfields to find out.
Go to Art Cyclopedia page on Gilbert & George
Go to Art Index web page on Gilbert & George

SPECIAL GUEST
Robert Venturi and
Denise Scott Brown
Special Guests: Architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown are the principals of the Philadelphia-based firm Venturi Scott Brown and Associates. They’ve designed and planned hundreds of buildings and campuses around the world and challenging the world of architecture together for the past 40 years. They are the co-authors of several books including 1972’s groundbreaking Learning from Las Vegas.
Go to Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates website

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Springtime in Tehran
This spring in Iran, a country under strict authoritarian rule, an exhibit of 20th century British sculpture arrived at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt talks with Wall Street Journal writer Melik Kaylan about the exhibit and other hopeful signs of a progressive cultural shift in Iran, where religious clerics regularly censor art and music and literature.
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Go to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art website
Go to a BBC Story on the Tehran art exhibit

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