Bigelow, Taqwacore, Historic Picnic
Kathryn Bigelow, director of the intense new Iraq war movie “The Hurt Locker” tells Kurt how Andy Warhol inspired her to make action movies. Samantha Peale depicts the unglamorous lives behind the art world in her novel The American Painter Emma Dial, which draws on her own experience as an assistant to Jeff Koons. And we hear from the late Frank McCourt, recorded in Studio 360 in 2002.
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