Aminah Robinson works with all kinds of materials and found objects — anything from wood to leather, textiles and mud. When Kurt Andersen spoke with Robinson, she explained how she takes her artistic cues from her ancestry and from her community, and the necessity of having physical contact with her ...

After his father died, Michael Rips discovered he'd left behind a portfolio of portraits. No one in the family knew his father was a painter, but the bigger mystery was the subject of the portraits. Searching for the story behind the paintings, Rips tumbled down a rabbit hole of amazing ...

You might know the Jetsons-like curvy concrete and glass structure of TWA’s Terminal 5 at JFK from the movie Catch Me If You Can. When the abandoned terminal was recently declared a landmark building, Kurt Andersen and architecture critic Alastair Gordon took a trip to the airport ...

Kurt Andersen walks the streets of Lower Manhattan with Marilyn Taylor. She is the chairman of the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — and heads its urban design and planning practice. Her firm is rebuilding 7 World Trade Center, one of the buildings destroyed alongside the towers. On ...

Kurt Andersen and Andy Borowitz arrive at Twain's gigantic Hartford mansion, where he wrote his most beloved books and gave his cats names like Satan and Perdition.

Kurt Andersen talks to architect Daniel Libeskind about urban planning, music, and his vision for the World Trade Center site. Produced by Michele Siegel.

For more than a decade, Joel Meyerowitz photographed the World Trade Center at dawn, at night, in every kind of weather and light. After the towers were gone, he started taking pictures right down in the World Trade Center site. Kurt talks with Meyerowitz about working among the ...

Kurt Andersen finds a disturbing familiarity to the new "Inside Sessions" courses offered by Penguin Putnam and Universal Music Group.

(Originally aired: July 18, 2002)

Kurt Andersen asks if a five-minute promotional film for the new war is necessary.

How quickly will art be created in reaction to our war — and how quickly will we be able to appreciate it?

Kurt Andersen wonders if we may be undergoing the greatest era of television.

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Kurt Andersen finds a movie musical he actually enjoys.

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