Jess Jiang appears in the following:
A Garden of Eden without Adam
Monday, May 10, 2010
Shirin Neshat creates visually stunning short films and art. The Iranian-born artist may be best known for her photographic series “Women of Allah” (1993-97) which depicts women wearing the chador, some carrying guns, their faces and hands covered with finely written Persian script. Her first feature-length film, "
Story Time
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Pen/Faulkner Foundation announced its annual PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story on Monday. The prize, which in recent years has be shared between an established writer and an emerging one, went to Edward P. Jones (Lost in the City ...
All Apologies ... to Erin
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
A Ricky Gervais Extra
Thursday, April 22, 2010
In this week's show, Ricky Gervais drops by Studio 360. And listening back to the tape, my stomach muscles are aching.
We couldn't wait until the weekend to share a piece of the interview. In this straight-from-the-studio preview, Gervais declares his love for
The Ultimate Mixtape
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I recently discovered The Messengers, the amazing remix project by hip hop artist K'NAAN and producer J.Period. The collection is a tribute to musical greats Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, and Bob Dylan. On the track 'Messengers and Prophets,' K'NAAN explains why he chose the artists: 'Who has ...
360 Staff Pick: MGMT Goes All In
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
The electro-rock duo MGMT (Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden) has reinvented itself on their sophomore effort, Congratulations, which comes out next Tuesday, April 13.
Just when I thought nothing could be weirder than the cover art of the new album (a two-headed chimpanzee ...
The Large Hadron Collider Is a Smash Hit
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Asperger's Gets Prime-Time Attention
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Last week on Studio 360, we explored how arts and creativity can teach us about autism. And last year, Kurt talked with Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page whose Asperger’s Syndrome wasn’t diagnosed until he turned 40. For others, it may go undiagnosed for a lifetime. ...
The Great Barrier Skull
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Last Sunday, I visited Volta NY to get my contemporary-art fix. The room was tightly packed with nearly a hundred solo exhibits. Visually exhausted after walking aimlessly for over an hour, I was struck by the simple (and eerie) beauty of one piece – a skull suspended in ...
I've Seen This Movie Before...
Friday, March 05, 2010
Does the story of 'Avatar' seem eerily familiar to you? For student Randy Szuch, the answer is a resounding yes. In this genius mashup, Szuch matches the audio of 'Avatar' with scenes from a beloved Oscar-winning Disney film from 1995.
Bruce Willis vs. Gorillaz
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Bruce Willis is a car chase extraordinaire -- think the hair-raising flying car chase scene in 'The Fifth Element' (1997). Now he's chasing down the Gorillaz (a band fronted by animated monkeys, but really the work of musician Damon Albarn and comic book creator Jamie Hewlett). ...
Tarantino, Forever Young
Thursday, February 25, 2010
This week, Quentin Tarantino stops by Studio 360 to talk about the Academy Award-nominated film 'Inglourious Basterds.' Of course, he's no stranger to the awards circuit -- he was nominated for an Oscar for Directing 'Pulp Fiction' (1994) and won a little gold man ...
The Penny Gets a Makeover
Sunday, February 21, 2010
In this week's show, Kurt says that we can find the Lincoln Memorial on the back of any old penny. Well, that old penny is getting a new backside. Last week, the United States Mint released a new one-cent coin, in honor of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. ...
And the Snail-Mail Prize Goes to…
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Our Valentine Redesign Challenge elicited many great entries to our Flickr page. And we received mailed-in submissions too. They ranged from a set of miniature cards 'inspired by a muse and faces of love' to my favorite, a three-foot tall by two-foot wide poster from Victor Stabin. He ...
Shakespeare on the Small Screen
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
This week, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced that it will come to New York for a five-play residency during the summer of 2011, as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. And the company will perform the plays in a full-scale replica of its Stratford-upon-Avon theater reconstructed inside the ...
Makin' Whoopies
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Julie Powell -- the author and Julie of Julie & Julia -- cooked 524 recipes in 365 days. That's small potatoes compared to Brooklyn's Cathy Erway, a twenty-something-year-old hipster who ate nothing from restaurants, take-out spots, or street-stands from September 2006 through September 2008. (The project ...
Nobody Puts Jane Austen in a Corner
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
It's Friday night, and I'm sweating on the dance floor. Am I at some chic nightclub? Not exactly. Instead of a techno beat, the sounds of fiddles, guitars, recorder, dulcimer, and banjo hang in the air.
Okay, I confess: I love Contra dancing. It's a rowdy mix ...
Helping Haiti: Relief through Music
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The human tragedy in Haiti is overwhelming, and it's hard to know what we can do from hundreds or thousands of miles away. Here's one thing…
January 20 through 25, New York's City Winery (155 Varick Street) is holding a series of four emergency benefit concerts ...
Do the Golden Globes Have a Glass Ceiling?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Golden Globe Awards are this Sunday, and I'm excited, especially for one nominee. The buzz is all over director Kathryn Bigelow and 'The Hurt Locker,' an action film about a bomb-defusing squad in Baghdad.
Last summer, Bigelow talked to Kurt about her transition from ...
Lessons in Enjoying Tea
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Instead of drinking my daily 8 cups of water, I've kept myself hydrated (and warm) this winter with tea. I once thought making tea was as simple as boiling water. Oh, how wrong was I. Everything I now know about tea I learned on Malian Dao, a mile-long street in Beijing exclusively devoted to the wholesale of tea. When my legs were tired, I picked a random store and asked the sales clerk to pin cha or tea taste. What I thought would be a 20-minute errand turned into a three-hour lesson in how to enjoy a cup of tea.