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Ephemera
Kurt Andersen and art critic Marcia Tucker talk about the art of impermanence.

Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork the Spiral Jetty usually lies beneath ten feet of water in the Great Salt Lake. Last summer, a drought in Utah lowered water levels in the lake, and the jetty reemerged for the first time since the mid-nineties. Eric Fredericksen looks into the history and possible fate of the Spiral Jetty.
View images of the Spiral Jetty
Go to the official Robert Smithson website
Go to the Dia Center's page on The Spiral Jetty
Go to the National Park Services' page on The Spiral Jetty

Documenting Dance
You may remember a part of a dance you’ve seen, a beautiful movement or a striking arrangement of bodies. But you probably couldn’t recreate those things, and you'd have a tough time trying to convey someone else how to do the dance. As David Krasnow discovered, dancers themselves are struggling with how best to record dances for posterity.
Go to The Dance Notation Bureau
Go to The Dance Films Association

Decasia
Technology continues to develop sophisticated recording equipment that allows us to capture and save pictures and sound, perhaps to immortalize them. That sense of immortality is betrayed in a new multimedia performance called Decasia. Its creators use de-tuned instruments and deteriorating celluloid to orchestrate the aesthetics of decay. Produced by Peter Crimmins.

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Marcia Tucker
Marcia Tucker is an art critic and curator. She was the Founder and former Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a New York museum dedicated to groundbreaking art.
Go to Marcia Tucker's official site

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Usually museum galleries are hushed places, where people walk silently around the art. But visitors to the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana this fall will discover that wherever they walk, the noise level will go up. Because that's the way the artist Jack Dollhausen wants it. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
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Design for the Real World
MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli explains the perfect form and use of the ice cream cone. Produced by Jarrod Alexander and Jocelyn Gonzales.

The Great White Way
A new book about the artist William Pope.L says that effort is often both his subject and his medium. Pope L. ate the entire Wall Street Journal in one performance, and in another spent three days staring a bottle of Milk of Magnesia. We join him on what may be his most famous ongoing work, a 5-year project crawling up Broadway in New York City. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
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