COVER STORY
Color
Kurt Andersen and the designer Todd Oldham talk about intense power of color in art, design, and music.

Lisa Fittipaldi
Lisa Fittipaldi was an accountant before she went blind in the early 90s. After she lost her sight, she also lost her job and became depressed. In an act of desperation, her husband bought her a paint set. Fittipaldi began painting, working out the shapes through touch and colors through theory. Blindness, she told producer Michael May, has made her more aware of the visual impact of her work.
Go to Lisa Fittipaldi's Website
Go to a list of articles on Lisa Fittipaldi

Technicolor
There are certain things we expect at the movies these days – a bucket of popcorn, too many coming attractions, and color on the screen. But when Technicolor was introduced eighty years ago, it was a revolution. Bob Harris, a restorer of Technicolor films, and historian Scott Higgins tell us about how the chemical process changed what we saw on the screen, and what we wanted to see. Produced by Trent Wolbe
Go to a detailed explanation of the Technicolor process
Go to Robert Harris' website
Go to the official Technicolor Corporation website
Go to an essay on Meet Me in St. Louis
Buy Technicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing

Pigment Hunter
In the 1980s, painter Art Guerra discovered that his older murals were beginning to fade. He set out to find the perfect outdoor paints to fix them, and that quest led him to an obsession with pigments, the colorants in paint. Guerra now collects pigments and scours the country for what he calls forgotten and extinct pigments. Produced by Kerrie Hillman
Go to Guerra Paint & Pigment website
Go to an article about Guerra
Find out more about the history of pigments
Buy Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments

Color Theory
Musicians often describe the sounds their instruments make as colors – a red brassy tone from the trumpet, or a dark, chocolatey tone from the bass. The composer Maria Schneider describes her music this way, only her instrument is an entire jazz big band. She told Studio 360's Ave Carrillo about the very personal theory she's worked out about the colors in her music.
Go to Maria Schneider's website
Buy Albums by the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra

SPECIAL GUEST
Todd Oldham
Todd Oldham is a designer for whom color is both whimsy and serious business. Oldham first made his name as a fashion designer of clothes known for their graphic patterns, fun details, and campy themes. Today he designs a line of house wares for Target, a furniture line for La-Z- Boy, and continues to do interior design and photography projects, in addition to designing clothes.
Go to Todd Oldham's official website
Buy Todd Oldham's Handmade Modern: Mid-Century Inspired Projects for Your Home

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Irén Marik
Back in the 1970s, on a routine visit to a record store in New York City, Allan Evans bought an LP recorded by a Hungarian pianist whose name meant nothing to him. But the moment he heard the music, he felt like he'd discovered a "musical Tutankhamen." Sara Fishko tells the tale of how Evans unearthed the work of a extraordinary classical pianist who was nearly forgotten.
Go to Allan Evans' record label website
Buy Irén Marik's "Bartok in the Desert"

Commentary
Art Appreciation
A gallery can arbitrarily put a price tag on a painting, but Kurt Andersen wonders, what's the real value of a work of art?
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