May 02, 2008
The global credit squeeze has created all kinds of economic jitters, so why hasn’t it reached the art market? Kurt talks with András Szántó, senior lecturer at the Sotheby's Institute of Art and a co-founder of Artworldsalon.com, about the relationship between money and the big-time art world. Plus, dealers at the AIPAD Photography show weigh in.
Weigh in: Has the economy affected how you consume art?
Since the 1950s, Art Rosenbaum has traveled all over the U.S. recording endangered music -- from Appalachian banjo players to Mexican farm workers. Philip Graitcer went with Rosenbaum on a recent recording trip in northern Georgia.
Ed Teague and Art Rosenbaum play a duet:
"I'm Dying, Mother" by Bert Hare, from Art Rosenbaum's Art of Field Recording Vol. 1.
Gina Fattore writes for Showtime's racy "Californication," but she learned about love from Jane Austen. Fattore was a newspaper copy editor when she saw "Clueless" (a Beverly Hills version of Austen's "Emma") and decided to change her path. Produced by Studio 360's Jenny Lawton.
Weigh in: Is there a work of art that has changed your life?
Before he was a famous blues guitarist known as "Honeyboy," David Edwards was a different kind of legend -- a boxcar hobo. Gianluca Tramontana visited him on the South Side of Chicago.
Since he burst onto the UK scene with his "punk-folk" in the 1980s, Billy Bragg has been known for his outspoken politics. Bragg is back with his first new album in six years: Mr. Love and Justice. Kurt spoke with Bragg in 2006.
Billy Bragg performs "To Have and Have Not" live in Studio 360.
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