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Josef and Anni Albers (Josef and Anni Albers (Photo courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation))
We poke fun at the presidential debates, and bring to a close a heated debate about who should be "Mr. Subways 2004." In calmer exchanges, host Dean Olsher talks to curator Nicholas Fox Weber about Bauhaus figures Josef and Anni Albers. And we explore the meaning of "indigenous music" for an aboriginal choir in Australia’s outback. Also this week, writer John Haskell remembers actress Janet Leigh.
The Missing Debate
And the Winner Is...
» If you missed the first part of our "Mr. Subways" contest coverage, you ...
Loving the Camera
A meditation on Janet Leigh adapted from John Haskell’s collection of short stories, I Am Not Jackson Pollock. Read by the author himself, and produced by Emily Botein. Haskell’s newest novel, American Purgatorio, is due out this December.
» More on John Haskell
» More on John Haskell
Pillow Fight
Yes, the flash mob is still going strong – at least in London. Next Big Thing correspondent Tim Heffer gives us a play-by-play account of one that took place outside St. Paul’s Cathedral October 5, at 5:40 p.m. Produced by Jill Krauss.
Josef and Anni Albers
Josef and Anni Albers were both major figures in the Bauhaus art and design movement. Their work is now on display in a retrospective at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Dean Olsher walks through the exhibit with its curator, Nicholas Fox Weber, who came to know ...
Heard Under the Street...
The musical saw, played by Moses E. Josiah in the concourse of the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. Produced by Matt Lieber.
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