Arts & Culture

Turning Point

New Yorkers didn’t much care for the twin towers until a nimble Frenchman named Philippe Petit danced across a wire between them

November 1, 2001

Magnificent Obsession

Artist Alberto Giacometti’s singular vision is celebrated in a special centennial exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art

November 1, 2001

Very Verdi

One hundred years after the maestro’s death, the Italian composer reigns, very operatically, in the hearts of music lovers everywhere

November 1, 2001

Trust and Intimacy

October 2001

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

October 2001

The Look of Architecture

October 2001

Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family

October 2001

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

October 2001

Fly: The Unsung Hero of 20th-Century Science

October 2001

I Thought My Father Was God: and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project

October 2001

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

October 2001

Recipes from Another Time

Savor the flavor of old St. Augustine and try a couple of these original recipes

October 2001

Points of View

Artist Paul Signac steps out of the shadow of his celebrated colleague, pointillist Georges Seurat, to star in a new exhibition at the Met

September 30, 2001

Mister Faulkner Goes to Stockholm

In six years, William Faulkner went from salaried Hollywood script doctor to winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. How had this miracle occurred?

September 30, 2001

Class Act

In Alabama, students turn tires and bales of hay into striking architecture for the poor

September 30, 2001

We Followed Odysseus

September 2001

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Thrill to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s chilling tale of betrayal, redemption and the albatross, illustrated with Gustave Doré’s astonishing engravings.

September 2002

Virtue and Beauty

The Renaissance Image of the Ideal Woman

August 31, 2001

A Lens on the Land

Twelve noted photographers respond in images to areas designated by the Nature Conservancy as Last Great Places

August 31, 2001

Don Foster Has a Way With Words

Uncovered a Shakespeare elegy, confirmed Ted Kaczynski wrote the Unabomb Manifesto and identified Eric Rudolph as a suspect in the 1996 bombing

August 31, 2001