Susan Vreeland talks about why she’s so attracted to the world of art, and why Emily Carr, the subject of her latest book, loved the First Nations’ people and their art.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited various political causes, from the Occupy Movement to protests against the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo. She tells Anne Strainchamps how art can be a political tool.
Shaun Whitehead is a veteran treasure hunter. He tells Anne Strainchamps about his quests for treasure and his treasure-hunting club.
Ward Cunningham invented the wiki in 1995. Can the wiki way save the internet?
Writer Kim Hiss discovered her own symbiotic relationship with animals in winter. She was working as an editor for Field and Stream Magazine and it was her first hunt.
Paul Koudounaris has spent the past decade traveling around the world, climbing into church crypts and bone chambers and taking photos at over 250 burial sites in 30 countries. He's discovered chapels decorared with skeletons and underground caves filled with skulls—among other things. In this interview, he tells us how he began his obsession with displays of death.
“How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” is the title of Toby Young’s memoir of his experience working for “Vanity Fair” magazine. The book was so successful, Young turned it into a play.
For three decades, MIT professor Sherry Turkle's been looking at the ways we interact with machines. She believes our digital devices are taking a toll on our personal relationships.
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