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COVER STORY
An Artist's Artist
Kurt Andersen and New Yorker writer Hilton Als discover what exactly we mean by "an artist's artist."
 Artist's
Choice
Choreographer Bill T. Jones on Merce Cunningham
and Willie Nelson on Django Reinhardt. Produced by Trey Kay.
Go
to a Bill T. Jones bio page
Go
to a Merce Cunningham page
Go
to Willie Nelson's Site
Go
to a Django Reinhardt page
 Artist's
Choice
Photographer Sheila Metzner on Aaron Rose.
Produced by Trey Kay.
Go
to Metzner at Metroactive
Go
to an Aaron Rose site
See
Shelia Metzner's photos
Pauline
Oliveros
A profile of the experimental composer who built her
career on what she calls "deep listening." Produced by David Krasnow.
Go
to the Pauline Oliveros retrospective program
Go
to the Deep Listening website
Artist's
Choice
Playwright Edward Albee on Samuel Beckett, Poet Sharon
Olds on John Donne, and Jazz Musician Branford Marsalis on Billie Holiday.
Produced by Trey Kay.
Jay Rosenblatt
The filmmaker has earned a strong critical reputation
for his films "Human Remains" and "The Smell of Burning Ants." But not
many outside the art film world know who Rosenblatt is. Produced by Jonathan
Mitchell.
Go
to Rosenblatt's site
SPECIAL GUEST
Hilton
Als
is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes
about music and film and literature. His most recent book is The Women.
His next book, the Group, is about the writer James Baldwin and his devotees.
Go
to his book, The Women
Go
to The New Yorker site
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Now
Playing
Family. Everyone has a different idea of "family."
Right now at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut some of those ideas are
together under one roof. Produced by Amy Jeffries.
Go
to the Family Exhibit at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
WTC-Vitiello
In 1999, sound and media artist Steven Vitiello
had a studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. For six months
he recorded sounds of the building and its surroundings. We hear what
he's doing with that sound now. Produced by Michael Raphael.
Go
to the Whitney Biennial
Go
to Vitiello at The Dia Center
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