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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

Girl with Red HatLisa 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

Arthur CarterSPECIAL 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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Walter Mitty, Conductor?
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Now Playing
Feng Mengbo, the first digital artist to come out of China, debuts his latest project, a very personal animated storybook, on the web site of the Dia Center for the Arts.
Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

Go to DIA Center

Design For The Real World
Lipstick: For writer and designer Veronique Vienne the sleek cylinder of color is as indispensable as a Swiss army knife.





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