Derek John appears in the following:
Aha Moment: Whoopi Goldberg
Friday, June 01, 2012
WNYC listener Julie Bayley grew up watching daytime talk shows to catch comics like Rodney Dangerfield. But there weren’t any comedians like her: female and black. Then Bayley saw W...
Barry Sonnenfeld's Movie Master Class
Friday, May 25, 2012
The big, splashy comic book movie has become a fairly predictable piece of Hollywood machinery. So it’s easy to forget just how radical and fresh Men In Black seemed when it came out...
Mo Willems Remembers Maurice Sendak
Friday, May 11, 2012
Best known for his breakthrough 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's long career involved one wild rumpus after another. "You have to remember, he's from a g...
American Icons: The Outsiders
Friday, May 04, 2012
Susan Eloise Hinton was a teenager when she wrote The Outsiders, the story of rival gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She used the pen name “S.E.” so readers wouldn’t know she was a girl, an...
Recession Wanes, But Artists Still Starving
Friday, April 27, 2012
We’ve been inundated with reports of corporate layoffs and manufacturing jobs vanishing. But the creative class has been particularly hard hit. In an ongoing series for Salon, repo...
Wayne Coyne's Lips Are On Fire
Friday, April 20, 2012
Back in the 1980s, the Flaming Lips were just an alternative rock band from Oklahoma. They toured for a decade before finally hitting it big in 1993 with their song “She Don't Use Je...
Appropriating Images for Art: When Is It Okay?
Friday, April 06, 2012
Last year the artist Richard Prince was sued by Patrick Cariou, a photographer, for copyright infringement. Prince had used dozens of Cariou’s pictures — arty portraits of Rastafarian...
Herb Alpert
Friday, March 30, 2012
If you ever watched The Dating Game, you know his music — and now you can’t get it out of your head. After a half-century in the music business, legendary bandleader, trumpeter, and...
Shapeshifter Willem Dafoe
Friday, March 23, 2012
Over 30 years and 80 films, Willem Dafoe has played a vampire and Jesus Christ; a drug dealer and an FBI agent. This spring, he’s particularly prolific, appearing in three new movies...
Fighting the ‘War on Women’ with Laughs
Friday, March 09, 2012
Birth control is currently the hot button issue of the campaign season. Rush Limbaugh’s noxious remarks to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke led to a rare apology. Liberals, howev...
Can Kickstarter Fund Art Better than the NEA?
Friday, March 02, 2012
Last week one of Kickstarter's founders bragged that he expected the three-year-old crowd-funding site to give more money to the arts this year than the National Endowment for the Art...
Hunt Slonem's Artist Aviary
Friday, February 24, 2012
Manhattan’s West Side has plenty of artist studios, but none quite like Hunt Slonem’s. Kurt Andersen recently dropped by the artist’s eccentric space, which is housed on the third f...
Are the Oscars Hurting Hollywood?
Friday, February 24, 2012
While it's become an annual rite to complain about the Oscars, aside from the Super Bowl, more Americans still watch the Academy Awards than any other TV show. But according to agen...
Remembering Barney Rosset, Malcolm X's Publisher
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The boundary-pushing publisher Barney Rosset died on Tuesday. He was 89. Rosset was the founder of Grove Press, where he made a name for himself publishing titles no one else would to...
China Made Your TV. Can It Make Your TV Shows?
Friday, February 03, 2012
Last month, Chinese President Hu Jintao announced that his government was investing heavily in homegrown, exportable cultural programming. And yet, just days later, the government s...
Garage Inventors
Friday, January 27, 2012
All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. We visit inventors working in garages, basements, even a Quonset hut on a farm. Rache...
Iran Cracks Down on Film
Friday, January 20, 2012
Despite success abroad, the Iranian film industry is in serious trouble with the government. Prominent directors have been jailed, and last week the government shut down the House o...
Mitt Romney, American Dad
Friday, January 13, 2012
As Mitt Romney wraps up his audition to be the Republican nominee, he looks increasingly in control of everything but his image. The problem, according to New York film critic Da...
Big in 2012: Our Predictions
Friday, January 06, 2012
Kurt Andersen notes that we're in an age of flux and paralysis at the same time. In entertainment, we yearn for authenticity — but ten million of us watch the Kardashians every week...
Encyclopedia Brown
Friday, December 23, 2011
Forty-eight years ago, Donald J. Sobol put sneakers on Sherlock Holmes and set him in small-town America. Produced by Studio 360's Derek John ...
