Posted in Music, tagged aladdin theater, anis mojgani, horse feathers, Kurt Andersen, live radio, live wire, oregon, oregon public broadcasting, portland on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Live radio lives!
Kurt recently stopped by the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon for Live Wire — an old school variety show with a modern twist, recorded in front of the hippest audience west of the Mississippi.
It’s a heck of a good time: smart conversation, a killer house band, and live radio theater that could give [...]
Posted in Los Angeles, Video, tagged Aptera, Big Three, cars, Kurt Andersen, Los Angeles, Petersen Automotive Museum, Studio 360 on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“No Particular Place to Go” as Chuck Berry sang in 1964 is as good a metaphor as any to describe the current plight of the U.S. auto industry. It was just announced that the once mighty Pontiac is no more, and at least two of the Big Three are in serious danger of being relegated [...]
Posted in Music, tagged double sextet, pulitzer, steve reich, symmetry on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We were psyched to hear that Steve Reich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his composition “Double Sextet.” The piece is written to be played by two identical sextets of instruments, each made up of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano — or by one sextet playing against a recording of the other.
This [...]
Posted in Los Angeles, tagged jesse thorn, sound of young america on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My time in Los Angeles is coming to an end. I will miss the phantasmagorically perfect weather, the hiking trails (with coyotes!) 5 minutes from my house, the focused and talented students (and faculty) of Art Center, and all the interesting strangers who tend to be, I think, more [...]
Posted in Los Angeles, tagged Art Center College of Design, Kurt Andersen, LA Times, visionary in residence on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The LA Times just did a nice feature about Kurt and his spring semester post as “Visionary in Residence” at the Art Center College of Design. Now if only they could get his name spelled right! They fixed it!
-Leital Molad
Posted in New York City, tagged Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, BMW, car, Frank Stella, Herve Poulain, Robert Rauschenberg, Robin Rhode, Roy Lichtenstein on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
They leave every day from Grand Central Terminal — train cars and subway cars. But yesterday, New Yorkers witnessed a rarer departure: art cars.
Two weeks ago, an installation of four BMW art cars arrived at Grand Central straight from a show at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Yesterday they left NYC on an express [...]
Posted in Los Angeles, Video, tagged iPod, Kurt Andersen, Los Angeles, maker, mr. jalopy, Studio 360, tinker on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently spent some time with one of the most interesting people in Los Angeles. He’s a leading light in the so-called Makers’ Movement – people who believe that making things yourself, or fixing the things you have, is lots better than mindlessly buying new stuff.
His name is Peter but he goes professionally by [...]
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen