Matt Holzman

A few months ago, an international group of scientists and artists set sail for the Arctic. They were bound for a group of frozen Norwegian islands halfway between the top of continental Europe and the North Pole. KCRW's Matt Holzman joined the adventure.

Would you seek creative inspiration while seasick in one of the coldest places imaginable? This fall a group of 14 artists sets sail for a two week journey to the Arctic Circle. They'll start from an archipelago halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Reporter Matt ...

We posed this question to two prominent book critics: How do you write a serious review of a book called Everybody Poops? Produced by Matt Holzman.

In the middle of the last century, almost all the important painters were working big. Canvasses grew too big for even some of the rich patrons’ walls. Matt Holzman of KCRW tried to find out why, and how, modern painters went monumental.

Photographer Zoe Crosher grew up around planes and airports — her mother was a flight attendant, and her father was a diplomat. So it isn’t surprising that when Crosher moved to Los Angeles, she gravitated towards the neighborhoods surrounding Los Angeles International Airport. She found what she considered the real ...

Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, realized architecture could affect the success of the games. He challenged architects to create a sacred space for sport. Matt Holzman of KCRW in Santa Monica has the story of how architecture for the Olympics has become a sport of its ...

At some point in the middle of the last century, almost all the important painters were working big. Canvasses grew too big for even some of the rich patrons’ walls. Matt Holzman of KCRW tried to find out why, and how, modern painters went monumental.

We asked two prominent book critics the question: How do you write a serious review of a book called Everybody Poops? Produced by Matt Holzman.

Over the past 10 years, the artist Spencer Tunick has probably photographed more naked people than any person on earth. You may have seen him fill Times Square with nude volunteers in an installation that HBO chronicled in a documentary. He's been arrested repeatedly for "unlawful assemblies" but the courts ...

The artist Spencer Tunick has probably photographed more naked people than any person on earth. You may have seen him fill Times Square with nude volunteers in an installation that HBO chronicled in a documentary. This past June Tunick's work reached a new zenith when he photographed ...

The concept of harmony applies to more than music — it's a metaphor we lay onto any art form. The rules of how colors go together have been written about exhaustively, but what does color harmony really mean? Produced by Matt Holzman.

The concept of harmony applies to more than music  — it's a metaphor we lay onto any art form. The rules of how colors go together have been written about exhaustively, but what does color harmony really mean?

The 1994 Northridge Quake in California killed 56 people and caused $20 billion in damage. As scary as the ‘94 disaster was, one artist in Los Angeles found the aftermath in his apartment building inspiring.

Prodigies often reveal their talent suddenly and undeniably — but how exactly do we define a prodigy?

What exactly is going on in our brains when we feed it the same thing over and over?

(Originally aired: February 14, 2002)