Leital Molad appears in the following:
Ballerina
Saturday, September 14, 2002
When she was just 16, The New York Times called Alexandra Ansanelli "a true prodigy…that rare find, a dancer of nuance and originality." Studio 360 caught up with Ansanelli as she prepared for a performance in Beijing.
Design for the Real World: Memorial Souvenir
Saturday, September 07, 2002
Karal Ann Marling, an American Studies professor, looks at the phenomenon of memorial souvenirs.
A Yankee's Southern Tour
Saturday, August 17, 2002
New York artist Maira Kalman had virtually never been west of the Hudson. This summer she needed to clear her head, so she headed down south to see new sights and smell new smells.
Design for the Real World: Summer Ads
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Design critic Steven Heller looks at the irresistible cold of summer ads.
Book Dealer
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Kurt Thometz, who builds personal libraries for the well-to-do, has found his own perfect collection.
10,000-Year Clock
Saturday, May 18, 2002
The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once every minute, chime once a year, and play music once a millennium.
Taxidermy
Saturday, May 11, 2002
For the three generations the Schwendeman family has been mounting (not stuffing) all types of animals. Writer Melissa Milgrom visits their Milltown, New Jersey taxidermy workshop.
Design for the Real World: Mannequin
Saturday, May 04, 2002
Graphic designer Stephen Heller gazes into store windows and confesses his passion for mannequins.
Movies and Memory
Saturday, April 06, 2002
Author and scholar Alan Mintz reveals the power films have had in shaping how we understand and interpret the Holocaust.
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
Saturday, March 09, 2002
Novelist David Huddle imagines the intense connection between the 17th-century French painter, Georges de La Tour, and a young girl he recruits to model for him.
Stephin Merritt's 69 Love Songs
Saturday, March 02, 2002
This weekend at Lincoln Center the Magnetic Fields perform their 69 Love Songs for the last time. Magnetic Field's front man Stephin Merritt says he doesn't write songs about love — he writes about love songs.
Urinetown
Saturday, March 02, 2002
This is a Broadway musical steeped in irony, that lets you in on its jokes, doesn't bother with a dopey fairytale ending, and has a real moral vision. Kurt Andersen talks with the creators of Urinetown.
Design for the Real World: Christmas Cards
Saturday, December 22, 2001
Graphic designer Steven Heller looks at one piece of seasonal design where tradition wins out over innovation — Christmas cards.
The Code in the Quilt
Saturday, November 24, 2001
Studio 360's Leital Molad learns how a secret stitched language transported coded messages to slaves trying to escape through the Underground Railroad.
(Originally aired: July 21, 2001)
Design for the Real World: License Plate
Saturday, November 17, 2001
Steven Heller wonders why automobile license plates have become so overwrought.
The Code in the Quilt
Saturday, July 21, 2001
Studio 360's Leital Molad learns how a secret stitched language transported coded messages to slaves trying to escape through the Underground Railroad.
Saxton Freymann Goes to the Grocery Store
Saturday, May 05, 2001
We take a trip to the grocery store with an artist and children's book author who doesn't paint or write odes to food; instead, he uses fruits and vegetables as the raw material for his whimsical sculptures.