Jad Abumrad

The Wordless Music Series pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience. WNYC presents four one-hour specials that highlight the ground-breaking '07-'08 season, hosted by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad.

Hello everyone. Jad here. I wanna tell you real quick about my experience hallucinating the sound of bees. And Fleetwood Mac.

Just wanted to let you know: Robert and I were interviewed for The Sound of Young America, a great public radio show hosted by Jesse Thorne. He's got a good radio voice, that one. And he uses that radio voice to ask insightful radio questions.

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Painter Bob Ross died nine years ago. But many people don't realize this, because his 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting continue to air worldwide. Jad Abumrad discovered that Ross's legacy of art-teaching has extended way beyond those television shows and into places like the back of ...

Painter Bob Ross died eight years ago. But many people don't realize this, because his 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting continue to air worldwide. Jad Abumrad discovered that Ross's legacy of art-teaching has extended way beyond those television shows and into places like the back of ...

A new book about the artist William Pope.L says that effort is often both his subject and his medium. Pope L. ate the entire Wall Street Journal in one performance, and in another spent three days staring a bottle of Milk of Magnesia. We join him on what may ...

The mystery novelist Laurie King picks up the Sherlock Holmes story where Arthur Conan Doyle left off. In The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, King pairs the famed detective with a sharp young female partner and raises skepticism about Holmes' superhuman genius.

The internet is perpetually throbbing with new data and images and ideas in endless new permutations. Artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin are trying to see and hear what all that adds up to.

The bushy, televised oil painting guru continues to change people's lives — despite the fact that he's dead.

Poets Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser visit the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) to take a look at a new exhibit, Game Show. Its galleries are filled with artwork about games — from giant jigsaw puzzles and marbles, to stacks of Nintendo.

The hard-rockin' hair bands of the 1980s are back: a decade and a half after the seeming death of heavy metal music, fans revisit the charms of Quiet Riot and Poison.