Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

Studio 360 reaches new altitudes. "Up in the Air" director Jason Reitman explains what it's like to release a film about layoffs and layovers in a time of financial hardship. Barbara Kingsolver says the flamboyant painter Frida Kahlo tried to take over ...

In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of Moby-Dick. Herman Melville's white whale survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of contemporary filmmakers, painters, playwrights and musicians.

Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin's bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since "On the Origin of Species" was published. Darwin's descendent, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around ...

Movies make it all better. Pedro Almodóvar says his new film "Broken Embraces" is an ode to cinema itself. Gabourey Sidibe, the star of "Precious," reflects on her life-changing role as a troubled Harlem teenager. In her Broadway show, Carrie Fisher ...

Studio 360 waits for David Hockney. The artist returns to the English countryside where he grew up, to paint some of the most vivid landscapes of his career. In the documentary "Waiting for David Hockney" outsider artist Billy Pappas hopes his idol, ...

Studio 360 is ready for Halloween with plenty of gore. That's Gore Vidal, novelist and political firebrand, who captures his memories and the images to go with them in his new book. Things get spooky for real when George Romero, one of the great horror ...

An oil painter is the $250,000 winner of ArtPrize. A cappella gets its due: the Yale Whiffenpoofs celebrate their centennial and Sonos, the harmonizing indie group, performs live in the studio. And in the only radio interview he's doing for his new book, ...

An oil painter is the $250,000 winner of ArtPrize. A cappella gets its due: the Yale Whiffenpoofs celebrate their centennial and Sonos, the harmonizing indie group, performs live in the studio. And in the only radio interview he's doing for his new book, ...

Hear how Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti inspired choreographer Bill T. Jones' new musical, "Fela!" Performer Sarah Jones explores what it means to sound black in the age of Obama. And Kurt visits America's leading portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz, in ...

Hear how Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti inspired choreographer Bill T. Jones' new musical, "Fela!" Performer Sarah Jones explores what it means to sound black in the age of Obama. And Kurt visits America's leading portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz, in ...

Studio 360 revisits childhood. Before he was the drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland was a boy in Beirut with a CIA spy for a dad. He dishes about Sting in a new memoir. Author Michael Chabon thinks modern parenting has gone overboard, not allowing ...

Studio 360 revisits childhood. Before he was the drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland was a boy in Beirut with a CIA spy for a dad. He dishes about Sting in a new memoir. Author Michael Chabon thinks modern parenting has gone overboard, not allowing ...

Studio 360 reaches the ends of the earth. Yoko Ono is one of the few artists who can stay experimental while hitting number one on the dance charts. Her musical polar opposite is Marvin Hamlisch the composer of "A Chorus Line" and "The Sting." He recalls ...

Studio 360 reaches the ends of the earth. Yoko Ono is one of the few artists who can stay experimental while hitting number one on the dance charts. Her musical polar opposite is Marvin Hamlisch the composer of "A Chorus Line" and "The Sting." He recalls ...

Studio 360, Cash and prizes. Rosanne Cash's late father Johnny made a list of his favorite country songs for her; now she's recorded her own versions of these American classics. This fall in Grand Rapids, MI $250,000 will be awarded to one lucky artist. ...

Studio 360 visits the underworld. In the new horror movie, "Jennifer's Body," a high school alpha female is possessed by a man-eating demon; screenwriter Diablo Cody explains why she wrote the story. The novelist James Ellroy imagines political ...

Studio 360 takes stock one year after Wall Street’s meltdown; the real-life drama of the fall of Lehman Brothers inspires a BBC radio play. And the playwright Paul Rudnick reveals the absurd demands Hollywood studios make on their screenwriters.

Studio 360 takes stock one year after Wall Street’s meltdown; the real-life drama of the fall of Lehman Brothers inspires a BBC radio play. And the playwright Paul Rudnick reveals the absurd demands Hollywood studios make on their screenwriters.

Studio 360 is ready to wear. Filmmaker R.J. Cutler gets the story behind Vogue's legendary September issue. Lorrie Moore tells Kurt why there's a little bit of Jane Eyre in her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs. We'll hear from some schlumpy 21st century ...