Kurt Andersen and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at the ways artists, dancers, and filmmakers play with light.
Goldstein is the author ofProperties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics,The Mind-Body Problem, andStrange Attractors. She holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from Princeton University and in 1996 was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
(Originally aired: April 21, 2001)
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