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COVER STORY
Outsiders
Kurt Andersen and the movie director John Waters have fun with the idea of the Outsider – the rule breaker, the outcast, and the adventurer.
  Lee
Bontecou
What happens when an artist drops out at the pinnacle of her artistic success? In Lee Bontecou’s case, she kept working, and her art got even better. Bontecou abandoned stardom in the New York City scene of the 1970’s, to work in seclusion in rural Pennsylvania. This year she's back in a big way. Bontecou’s first career retrospective opened last year in Los Angeles and is now at its final stop at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens. Produced by Sarah Lilley
Go to the site of the Museum of Modern Art in Queens Lee Bontecou page
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about Lee Bontecou at the UCLA Hammer Museum
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Bontecou works at the UCLA Hammer Museum
 Howard
Finster
The art world uses the label “outsider artist” to apply to a whole range of self-taught creative types –from people in prison to folk painters. But for many people the term is personified by the late Reverend Howard Finster. The Baptist preacher from Summerville, Georgia first began to paint in the mid 1970s after he spotted an image of Jesus on his thumb while he was painting a bicycle. Finster painted almost compulsively form that point on, and his subjects ranged from Jesus to Elvis to Coke bottles. Studio 360 talked to Phyllis Kind the art dealer who discovered Finster, and asked her to describe the genius she saw in his work. Produced by Trey Kay.
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to Howard Finster's website
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to Howard Finster's Bio on Phyllis Kind's web site
Go
to the Howard Finster: Man of Visions Website
Go
to Howard Finster's Paradise Garden
 B.J.
Snowden
BJ Snowden is a musician who’s earned a great following partly because of her surprising rhythms and unusual melodies -- and partly because of the passion in her songs. Snowden trained in music, but it’s her rawness that appeals. Fred Schneider, of the band The B52s, tells Studio 360 why he loves BJ Snowden. Produced by Trey Kay.
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to BJ Snowden’s official site
 Romani
Music
Yuri Yunakov (yoo-NAH-kahf) is a saxophonist who will do anything to play his music. He is a member of the Roma culture (better known to most people as Gypsies) which historically has been a marginalized group in Europe. Wherever they've gone across Europe, they've been discriminated against, and have survived mostly by working as horse traders, fortune tellers -- and entertainers. Yunakov was playing wedding music in Bulgaria in the 1970’s when the government there made Roma musicians a target of persecution. He got chased off a bandstand and up a mountain by cops there, just for playing. Yunakov and Carol Silverman, who teaches Folklore at the University of Oregon, tell Studio 360 what made Roma music unique and dangerous. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
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to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance
 SPECIAL
GUEST
John Waters
John Waters’ films have been shocking -- and amusing -- audiences for 40 years. His 1972 Pink Flamingos earned him notoriety for its pure filth. But by the late 80s and 90s the mainstream was flowing more in his direction, and he was making movies like and Serial Mom – and Hairspray, which has now become a huge hit Broadway musical. For the last decade John Waters has also been creating artwork based on still photographs . And this year exhibit of his work, called "Change of Life," toured New York and Switzerland. His newest movie A Dirty Shame opens September 24th.
Find out more about John Waters and his films
Read an interview with John Waters
Go to the official website for the movie A Dirty Shame
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