Graphic Designer Steven Heller soaks up the aesthetics of the paper towel. Produced by Leital Molad.

Kurt Thometz, who builds personal libraries for the well-to-do, has found his own perfect collection. Produced by Peter Clowney and Leital Molad.

Every night an audience of several hundred aims its gaze at Fiona Shaw, who has the title role in the Broadway production of Medea by Euripedes. She portrays a woman who murders her children as revenge against Jason, her unfaithful husband. Shaw, the New York Times theater critic

Novelist David Huddle imagines the intense connection between the 17th century French painter, Georges de La Tour, and a young girl he recruits to model for him. Produced by Peter Clowney and Leital Molad.

Graphic designer Steven Heller looks at the strange history of the fat man of the season — Santa Claus.

Graphic designer Steven Heller gazes into store windows and confesses his passion for mannequins.

(Originally aired: May 2, 2002)

The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once every minute, chime once a year, and play music once a millennium.

(Originally aired: May 16, 2002)

Two New York architects, Elizabeth Diller and Ric Scofidio, wanted to challenge the notion of architecture as hard, unambiguous, stable, and sheltering. They wanted to design something that isn't quite there. The result is the Blur Building on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland.

When she was just 16, The New York Times called Alexandra Ansanelli "a true prodigy…that rare find, a dancer of nuance and originality." Studio 360 caught up with Ansanelli as she prepared for a performance in Beijing. 

Karal Ann Marling, an American Studies professor, looks at the phenomenon of memorial souvenirs.

New York artist Maira Kalman had virtually never been west of the Hudson. This summer she needed to clear her head, so she headed down south to see new sights and smell new smells.

Design critic Steven Heller looks at the irresistible cold of summer ads.

Kurt Thometz, who builds personal libraries for the well-to-do, has found his own perfect collection. 

The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once every minute, chime once a year, and play music once a millennium.

For the three generations the Schwendeman family has been mounting (not stuffing) all types of animals. Writer Melissa Milgrom visits their Milltown, New Jersey taxidermy workshop.

Graphic designer Stephen Heller gazes into store windows and confesses his passion for mannequins.

Author and scholar Alan Mintz reveals the power films have had in shaping how we understand and interpret the Holocaust.

Novelist David Huddle imagines the intense connection between the 17^th-century French painter, Georges de La Tour, and a young girl he recruits to model for him.

This weekend at Lincoln Center the Magnetic Fields perform their 69 Love Songs for the last time. Magnetic Field's front man Stephin Merritt says he doesn't write songs about love — he writes about love songs.

This is a Broadway musical steeped in irony, that lets you in on its jokes, doesn't bother with a dopey fairytale ending, and has a real moral vision. Kurt Andersen talks with the creators of Urinetown.