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COVER STORY
Art About Art
 Kreutzer
Sonata
Beethoven, Leo Tolstoy, and Leos Janacek each have
a story to tell, and they say it's the same one. Studio 360’s Julie
Burstein uncovers the tale that began to twist in the late 19th century.
Produced by Sarah Lilley.
Go to the Leos Janacek foundation
Go to a site
devoted to Leo Tolstoy
Go
to Princeton University's department of Slavic Literature
Learn
more about the Kreutzer Sonata at mad about beethoven.com
Dutch
Still Life
To take another artists' masterpiece as your text
ought to demand that you observe it closely and pick it apart. Suzanne
Bocanegra has been doing that steadily for years now. The New York painter
works from the floral paintings of the Flemish master Jan Brueghel. Produced
by Tara Geer.
Go to a Jan Brueghel page at Artcyclopedia
Visit a past exhibit of Suzanne Bocanegra
Visit an exhibit of Jan Brueghel The Elder's paintings
Edward
Hopper
The painter’s cast of lonely characters, moody
architecture, and empty rooms, works its way into America’s imagination.
Produced by Caitlin Shetterly.
View Edward Hopper's “Nighthawks" at The
Art Institute of Chicago
SPECIAL GUEST
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize and the
PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999 for his novel, The Hours. A film version of
The Hours, featuring Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep will
be released this December.
Visit a Michael Cunningham page at Literati.net
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Commentary
Defying Formula
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Design
for the Real World
Writer Akiko Busch finds a disturbing new interior
design trend in an unlikely place-the bed.
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