This Week



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.

Go to an Albee Bio
Go to a Beckett Page
Go to a Sharon Olds site
Olds's poem "Coming of Age 1966"

Go to a John Donne page
Go to John Donne's poem "Elegy XX"
Go to Marsalis's official site
Go to Billie Holiday's official site

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







Listen
View





Audio Help
To listen to audio from this site, you will need RealPlayer.
Go to instructions for downloading

Commentary
The Pseudo-local Broadcast
Read the full text

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




HOME | THIS WEEK | AMERICAN ICONS | KURT ANDERSEN | SHOW ARCHIVE | STATION LISTINGS | ABOUT STUDIO 360 | CONTACT US
Studio 360 is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC New York Public Radio, and is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.