Karen Michel

Ursula von Rydingsvard makes huge sculptures out of red cedar. The 70-year-old is one of the few women working in wood on such a scale.

Her pieces are in the permanent collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. And now they're also part of ...

When the painter Arnold Mesches began making political artwork in the 1950s — including one painting series on the Rosenberg trials — someone else began surveillance of the painter’s life. Produced by Karen Michel.

Radio producer Karen Michel says she can't help her need to acquire.

A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk. Produced by Karen Michel.

The art photographer Gregory Crewdson stages his work in thoroughly unspectacular places. He constructs domestic scenes in suburban neighborhoods — and stirs in his own surrealistic fantasies. Produced by Karen Michel.

A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk. Produced by Karen Michel.

When the painter Arnold Mesches began making political artwork in the 1950s — including one painting series on the Rosenberg trials — someone else began surveillance of the painter’s life. Produced by Karen Michel.

Until mid-October at Mass MOCA in North Adams, Massachusetts you can see a giant ziggurat covered with toy action figures. The installation is the work of Jarvis Rockwell, son of the late illustrator and painter of American icons, Norman Rockwell.  

The German painter Gerhard Richter is a master of exquisite obscurity with his conscious, careful blurring of even the most literal images. A retrospective of Gerhard Richter's work is touring the country: its next stop is the San Francisco MOMA.

The Next Big Thing is death, longing, love ... in other words: Fado, music from Portugal that will take your breath away. It's being haunted by the old neighborhood with writer Philip Lopate. It's news that's not news, and how you feel when you're about to eat cake.
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A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk. 

Radio producer Karen Michel says she can’t help her need to acquire.

Producer Karen Michel explores what sound means in Zen and Tibetan traditions.

(Originally aired: November 10, 2001)

Producer Karen Michel explores what sound means in Zen and Tibetan traditions.

The Supreme Court decides an election and Brian interviews Jon Stewart.

The Election in the Supreme Court and all you need to know about NYC subway advertising.

When you're typecast as the "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" guy, you live off the residuals. When the industry wants to stop paying residuals, you go on strike.

Rudy's Stepping Out: Coverage of the break-up of Giuliani's marriage and his affair and What you won't be reading on the way to the Million Mom March

The Image is Everything: All about shooting the stars, plus behind the scenes at a Beverly Sills photo shoot.