Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Visions of a post-apocalyptic future have long been the province of science fiction. Cormac McCarthy, one of America’s finest novelists, ventures onto that horrifying terrain in his latest book, The...
View ArticleDestination: Omaha
Kurt heads back to his hometown. No longer just beef and Warren Buffett, Kurt finds a vibrant indie rock, film, and visual arts scene there. Artists, politicians and philanthropists – including...
View ArticleMiranda July
In 2005, if you were lucky enough to catch her quirky and beautiful indie movie called "Me and You and Everyone We Know," you know that Miranda July (who wrote, directed, and starred in the film) is a...
View ArticleBaghdad Gallery
The Madarat Gallery is one of the only remaining art galleries in Baghdad. We sent journalist David Enders to visit the gallery and talk with owner and artist Hasan Nassar, who does everything he can...
View ArticleIn Orbit Over Levittown
On the evening of October 4th 1957, when David Hoffman was 13 years old, his family and all their neighbors walked outside to peer up at the night sky. Now a filmmaker, he has made a documentary called...
View ArticleLaika's Dream
A month after Sputnik went up, the Soviets launched Sputnik 2, with a very famous passenger: Laika, a mutt from the streets of Moscow. She never made it home. The writer John Haskell has this tribute,...
View ArticleRemembering Sputnik
Where were you when Sputnik launched? Russian émigrés in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach conjure up their memories from 50 years ago. Produced by Pejk Malinovski.
View ArticleWill Self
Psychogeography is the newest work from English writer Will Self. It’s basically about walking, but not about pleasant strolls through the woods. His walks take him to overlooked and hazardous places...
View ArticleBirthmark
Miranda July has had critical and commercial success as a screenwriter, director, actor, and performance artist. This year, she published a powerful collection of short stories called No One Belongs...
View ArticleMy Poet / My Novelist
What’s it like to practice the same line of work as your spouse? What if you’re both writers, but one is a novelist -- in love with plot and character -- and one is a poet -- obsessed with words?...
View ArticleCoat Check Chimes
The Whitney Biennial exhibition features dozens of works. So the curators used every nook and cranny of the Whitney’s four floors -– even the coat check. Studio 360's Pejk Malinovski explored a sound...
View ArticleDestination: Omaha
Kurt heads back to his hometown. No longer just beef and Warren Buffett, Kurt finds a vibrant indie rock, film, and visual arts scene there. Artists, politicians and philanthropists –- including...
View ArticleThe Waterfalls
New York, NY — Today, 4 monumental, man-made waterfalls open to the public along the East River. They were created by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, in conjunction with the Public Art...
View ArticleCityside Waterfalls
Danish art star Olafur Eliasson wanted to reconnect New Yorkers with their waterfront. At a cost of $15 million, Eliasson has designed four massive waterfalls, ten stories high, in New York Harbor. He...
View ArticleBirthmark
Last year, the screenwriter/director/actress Miranda July published a collection of short stories called No One Belongs Here More Than You, and she joined us to read the story “Birthmark.” With...
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The old poet and the radios
While the girls were hanging out in Golden Gai last night, I was picked up by William Elliott and Kazui Kawamura, the English translators of the poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and taken to an undisclosed...
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Your life is a precious gift from your parents
The first view of Mount Fuji is like a blow to your stomach, utterly breathtaking. Towering Godzilla-like over everything it is perfect, like a children's drawing. Did someone just say all cliches are...
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Revenge of the nerds
Holy Geekdom! The DENPA party Sunday night was euphoric. Two floors full of happy nerds, dressed up as their favorite manga/anime/computer game characters, dancing to extremely loud computer game...
View ArticleBe here now
Buddhist word of the day: On the overview map of Kyoto train station I noticed this funny thing, instead of saying 'You are here' it simply said 'Now'. I guess it comes to the same, except 'Now' would...
View ArticleHow to modernize your kimono
Last night Roland brought me along to his friend's kimono Party. Yes, you guessed it, a kimono party is a party with people dressed in kimonos. Of course it was somewhat tongue in cheek, but as most...
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