Karen Michel appears in the following:
When Sculpting Cedar, This Artist Is Tireless And Unsentimental
Sunday, April 28, 2013
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 ...
Watching Arnold Mesches
Saturday, May 01, 2004
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.
Mike & Adi
Saturday, September 13, 2003
A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk. Produced by Karen Michel.
Cocktail Shaker
Saturday, September 13, 2003
Radio producer Karen Michel says she can't help her need to acquire.
Gregory Crewdson
Saturday, April 19, 2003
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.
Mike & Adi
Saturday, February 22, 2003
A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk. Produced by Karen Michel.
Watching Arnold Mesches
Saturday, January 25, 2003
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.
Now Playing: Maya
Saturday, October 05, 2002
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.
Gerhard Richter's Exquisite Obscurity
Saturday, September 21, 2002
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.
Death, longing, love
Sunday, July 07, 2002
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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Cocktail Shaker
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Radio producer Karen Michel says she can’t help her need to acquire.
Mike & Adi
Saturday, June 22, 2002
A couple struggles to draw the line between a collection and too much junk.
Sonic Buddhism
Saturday, May 25, 2002
Producer Karen Michel explores what sound means in Zen and Tibetan traditions.
(Originally aired: November 10, 2001)
Sonic Buddhism
Saturday, November 10, 2001
Producer Karen Michel explores what sound means in Zen and Tibetan traditions.