COVER STORY
Artist's Artist
Kurt Andersen and New Yorker writer Hilton Als discover what exactly we mean by the term "artist’s artist."

Bill T. Jones on Merce Cunningham. Willie Nelson on Django Reinhardt
A choreographer and a country music legend talk about the people who inspired them. Produced by Trey Kay.
Go to the official Bill T Jones site
Go to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Site
Go to Willie Nelson's website
Go to a the biography of Django Reinhardt
Buy Django Reinhardt music

Sheila Metzner on Aaron Rose
Photographer Sheila Metzner praises the quiet genius of photographer Aaron Rose. Produced by Trey Kay.
See Sheila Metzner's work at the Fahey Klein Gallery website
See work by Aaron Rose
Buy books by and about Aaron Rose

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 deep listening website
Buy the Deep Listening CD
Buy the Deep Listening Book

Edward Albee on Samuel Beckett. Sharon Olds on John Donne. Branford Marsalis on Billie Holiday.
A playwright, a poet, and a jazz musician all weigh in on the artists that mean the most to them. Produced by Trey Kay.
Go to an overview of Edward Albee's career
Go to a site on Samuel Beckett
Go to a website on Sharon Olds
Go to a John Donne page
Go to Branford Marsalis' official site
Go to Billie Holiday's official site
Buy books by Samuel Beckett
Buy poetry by John Donne
Buy music by Billie Holiday

SPECIAL GUEST
Hilton Als
Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about music and film and literature. He is the author of The Women, a memoir about racial and sexual identity. His new book, The Group, about the writer James Baldwin and his devotees, will be published next spring.
Go to a week long electronic journal by Hilton Als
Go to the New Yorker site
Buy books by Hilton Als

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Commentary
Paranoia in Prime Time
As the new fall tv season begins, Kurt Andersen is intrigued by the number of 9/11-themed shows hitting the airwaves.
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The End of Hand Drawn Animation
Recently the Walt Disney company announced it will stop making hand drawn animated movies and to focus solely on computer animation. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky looks at the intricate art form Disney helped to create and then abandoned.
Go to the official website of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
Go to the website for Tony West and Dan Lund's documentary short, "Dream On Silly Dreamer"
Go to John Canemaker's website

Remembering Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft, animator, writer, and one of the founders of Pixar studios died last month in a car accident. Ranft was considered the best story sketch artist of his generation.

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