Sarah Lilley

Sarah Lilley grew up in Philadelphia and spent most of fourth grade under the covers listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Graduating with a degree in Music from U.C. Berkeley, she moved to New York in 1990 and over the following decade worked at the American Composers Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Nonesuch Records, and RCA Victor. A regular contributor to Studio 360 since 2002, she is the consulting producer for our series on Science & Creativity. She also creates museum audio tours for Acoustiguide.

Sarah Lilley appears in the following:

Randy Newman and Susan Morrison

Friday, April 01, 2016

Songwriters should have as much latitude as short-story writers, the singer says.

Amy Poehler and Ariel Levy

Friday, April 01, 2016

What does Amy Poehler miss from the days before she was famous? Nada.

Larry David and David Remnick

Friday, April 01, 2016

The comedian says that his alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was a sociopath, and that he wishes he could be more like him.

A still from Jim Trainor's animated short, Harmony

Two Artists Let The Animals Speak For Themselves

Thursday, March 10, 2016

People have always told stories about animals acting like humans. Two artists ask: what if we told stories that were true to animals’ lives?

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Detail of Abdelkader Benchamma's “Representation of Dark Matter,” mixed media, 2015.

How Do You Draw Dark Matter?

Thursday, April 23, 2015

An artist and an astrophysicist put their heads together to imagine how dark matter — the invisible stuff holding the universe together — would look if we could see it.

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Is Fashion Week Even About the Clothes?

Friday, February 20, 2015

Yes and no. As the fall collections wrap up, New York Magazine's Stella Bugbee reflects on what they meant, what draws her to a designer and how critical those models really are. 

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Fashion Week. It Never Ends.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Okay, it technically ends tonight. But Fashion Week will live on into eternity in the space most people actually experience it: social media. Stella Bugbee on mastering Snapchat.

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50 Shades of Runway Music

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The music models strut to at Fashion Week can be just as memorable as the clothes. This season, we've heard the "50 Shades of Grey" soundtrack, rap, and a bit of Captain Beefheart.

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Deeply Crazy and Incredibly Freezing: A Dispatch From Fashion Week

Monday, February 16, 2015

Arctic temperatures aren't stopping the stiletto-clad fashion hordes from descending on New York this week. Stella Bugbee, editorial director of The Cut, takes us inside the ride.

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A still from Jim Trainor's animated short, Harmony

Two Artists Let the Animals Speak for Themselves

Thursday, December 11, 2014

People have always told stories about animals acting like humans. Two artists ask: what if we told stories that were true to animals’ lives?

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Birkholz - 353 Days in Iraq, 205 Days in Afghanistan

Suzanne Opton's Soldiers

Friday, November 08, 2013

A decade ago, at the start of the war in Iraq, photographer Suzanne Opton began making portraits of soldiers. Instead of a man in uniform, Opton’s portraits capture the soldier’s head...

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Benjamin Britten

Walking With Benjamin Britten

Friday, March 22, 2013

Benjamin Britten may have been the most popular composer of the 20th century, beloved for his operas Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, and several exalted film scores. 

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Charles R. Knight at work on a model of a stegosaurus in 1899

The Man Who Invented the Dinosaurs

Friday, June 08, 2012

Each of us can call to mind a clear image of many dinosaurs. That’s surprising, since no human ever set eyes on one. The images that we have derive largely from the work of one man, ...

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Carsten Höller's Mirror Carousel (left), Singing Canaries Mobile (top right), and Untitled (Slide) (bottom right) at the New Museum

The Carsten Höller Experience

Friday, December 09, 2011

Don’t stand too close, hands away from the art, don’t talk too loud — you know the etiquette. But right now at the New Museum in New York there's a huge exhibition that breaks all tho...

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Novelist David Leavitt (left) and cryptographer Steve Bellovin (right)

David Leavitt’s Spy Tale

Friday, May 06, 2011

David Leavitt agreed to write an original short story for Studio 360’s Science & Creativity series, and said he wanted to write about book codes, a venerable, low-tech way of encrypt...

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Nano-Photography

Friday, September 10, 2010

Felice Frankel shows what life on the nanoscale looks like.

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Library of Dust

Friday, September 03, 2010

Photographer David Maisel discovered that the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers — so he photographed them.

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Zwelethu Mthethwa

Friday, June 25, 2010

Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa photographs destitute South Africans living and working on the outskirts of cities, yet his pictures — and life — tell a story of dignity rather than tragedy. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

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Aha Moment: Sassoon and Bauhaus

Friday, April 02, 2010

What's the secret to great hair? Architecture. Vidal Sassoon helped define the mod look during London's swinging sixties. The world-famous hairdresser says that more than anything else, the Bauhaus style inspired his geometric cuts. A documentary about his life called "Vidal Sassoon the Movie" premieres at ...

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Greeting Card Emergency

Friday, March 26, 2010

David Ellis Dickerson cut his teeth as a greeting card writer at Hallmark HQ. Now he specializes in custom greeting cards for difficult situations, such as a September 11th birthday and an apology for breaking a friend's toilet at a party. Produced by Studio 360's Sarah ...

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