Pigment, Technicolor, Oldham

Kurt Andersen and his guest, the designer Todd Oldham, talk about the magic and usefulness of color. They hear about how Technicolor first dazzled moviegoers, matching entire movie sets to the aqua green of a starlet’s eyes. We meet the man who hunts down the brightest and most intense pigments in the world. A painter creates vivid scenes on canvas despite the fact that she’s blind. And the composer Maria Schneider explains how she hears some notes as green and others as red.