Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and guests explore art's creative influence and transformative power in everyday life.

Using richly textured stories and insightful conversation, they examine, comment on, and provide insight into cultural ideas and trends. This is where the most ambitious and important new literature, filmmaking, music, dance, theater, visual art, and design is covered.

No other U.S. broadcast program covers the whole culture - "high" as well as "low", classical and vernacular, the challenging and the pop - in such fresh, smart, deep, incisive, idea-driven fashion.

Studio 360 has done shows, for instance, about myth, war, murder, suburbia, love, Soviet nostalgia, siblings, authenticity, critics, evangelical christians, secrets, exile, the nude, the 1940s and fish, with guests that include Madeline Albright, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Laurie Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Tony Bennett, Ray Bradbury, Roseanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Demme, Nora Ephron, Frank Gehry, Terry Gilliam, John Irving, Tony Kushner, Neal Labute, Baz Luhrmann, Azar Nafisi, Dolly Parton, Alexander Payne, Itzhak Perlman, Amy Poehler, Robert Redford, Anne Rice, Simon Schama, Liev Schreiber, Susan Sontag, Art Spiegelman, Frank Stella, They Might Be Giants, John Waters, and Neil Young.

Program segments include:

Kurt's Commentary - Andersen's weekly musings on culture, from the new TV season to politics as entertainment;

Design for the Real World - designers and artists talk about everyday items from the Swiss Army knife to the Post-it Note;

Portraits - profiles of famous artists and people behind the scenes;

How Art Works - artists, musicians, and scientists explain everything from why certain songs stick in your head to how color affects your emotions.