Light, Vermeer, Lipstick

Kurt Andersen questions the effects of free market forces on our cultural fantasies, we take a fascinating and frightening web journey with Chinese artist Feng Mengbo, and design critic Veronique Vienne examines the dramatic power of a tiny tube of lipstick. Kurt and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at how artists play with light, with stories about Vermeer's luminous paintings, the art of cinematographer John Bailey, and a profile of the innovative early-20^th-century dancer Loie Fuller, known as the Goddess of Light.