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COVER STORY
Amateurs
Kurt Andersen and New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman look in on the grass-roots culture of amateurs -- regular people, none of them famous, who paint and make music and without pay…for the love of it.
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Like Bob Ross
The bushy, televised oil painting guru continues to change people's lives -- despite the fact that he's dead. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
 Go
to the Bob Ross website
 The
Blue Hill Troupe
For 78 years this community theater group on Manhattan's Upper East Side has performed musical theater favorites from Gilbert & Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim. Produced by Jeff Lunden.
Go
to the Blue Hill Troupe's site
Go
to the Gilbert and Sullivan archive
Song
Poems
A business designed to exploit amateur songwriters
winds up making lots of them really happy. Produced by Michael May.
Go
to Magic Key Productions site
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Michael Kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman is the chief art critic for the
New York Times. He is the author of Portraits:Talking with Artists at
the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere.
Go
to Kimmelman's book Portraits
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Now
Playing
Nutcracker Weary. At the New York City Ballet,
they're doing 46 performances of the Nutcracker this year -- so surely
the dancers must get sick of it, right? Produced by Steve Nelson.
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to the New York City Ballet website
Design
For the Real World
Graphic designer Steven Heller looks at one
piece of seasonal design where tradition wins out over innovation --
Christmas Cards. Produced by Leital Molad.
How
Art Works
Ornamenting Handel's Messiah: In Handel's day
written music offered singers and players of instruments a great deal
of freedom to ornament the melody. We asked the soprano Julianne Baird
about adding her own notes to a masterpiece. Produced by Julie Burstein.
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