Beauty, Mirror, Satire

Studio 360 | Jun 4, 2012

Kurt Andersen and his guest, Harvard philosophy professor Elaine Scarry, look at why beauty fell on hard times, and whether it’s come back in the last few years. We’ll hear about painter Fred Tomaselli whose work set new standards for beauty in the 1990s. Composer Lois Vierk talks about music and thunderstorms. And photographer Andres Serrano describes the beauty he finds in his photographs of female bodybuilders. 

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