COVER STORY
Ephemera
Kurt Andersen and art critic Marcia Tucker talk about the art of impermanence.

Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork the Spiral Jetty usually lies beneath ten feet of water in the Great Salt Lake. This summer, a drought in Utah lowered water levels in the lake, and the jetty reemerged for the first time since the mid-nineties. Eric Fredericksen looks into the history and possible fate of the Spiral Jetty.
View images of the Spiral Jetty
Go to the official Robert Smithson website
Go to the Dia Center's page on The Spiral Jetty
Go to the National Park Services' page on The Spiral Jetty

Documenting Dance
You may remember a part of a dance you’ve seen, a beautiful movement or a striking arrangement of bodies. But you probably couldn’t recreate those things, and you'd have a tough time trying to convey someone else how to do the dance. As David Krasnow discovered, dancers themselves are struggling with how best to record dances for posterity.
Go to The Dance Notation Bureau
Go to The Dance Films Association

Decasia
Technology continues to develop sophisticated recording equipment that allows us to capture and save pictures and sound, perhaps to immortalize them. That sense of immortality is betrayed in a new multimedia performance called Decasia. Its creators use de-tuned instruments and deteriorating celluloid to orchestrate the aesthetics of decay. Produced by Peter Crimmins.

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Marcia Tucker
Marcia Tucker is an art critic and curator. She was the Founder and former Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a New York museum dedicated to groundbreaking art.
Go to Marcia Tucker's official site

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Craft
Violin Maker. Lothar Meisel and his father sat side by side for 40 years bending, shaping and scraping wood into violins, just as their German ancestors had since 1660. But here in America the Meisel family legacy is in jeopardy. Produced by Mary Stucky from Minnesota Public Radio.
Go to the Meisel Family Violin Archives at the University of South Dakota

The Great White Way
A new book about the artist William Pope.L says that effort is often both his subject and his medium. Pope L. ate the entire Wall Street Journal in one performance, and in another spent three days staring a bottle of Milk of Magnesia. We join him on what may be his most famous ongoing work, a 5-year project crawling up Broadway in New York City. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
Visit William Pope.l at The Project
See photos of William Pope I.