Fred Wilson, Uta Hagen and ‘The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Conceptual artist Fred Wilson has spent much of his career examining how museum collections are chosen and exhibited, so Kurt Andersen meets Wilson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a chat and a tour. With this year marking the centennial of the birth of Uta Hagen, the actress who also became a revered acting teacher, we hear from her students and colleagues, including F. Murray Abraham, Mercedes Ruehl and David Hyde Pierce. Plus, the story behind the song known as "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet."

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0:23.5	Thanks.
0:25.6	Today on Studio 360, how a legendary actress became an even more legendary acting teacher.
0:32.4	She had to come up with all this grounding reality because otherwise she would just fly off into the wings because she was so innately theatrical.
0:39.5	Uda Hagen on her birth centennial.
0:44.7	Plus, I'm an artist that uses the museum as my palette.
0:50.5	How the artist Fred Wilson's work isn't just in museums, it's about museums.
0:56.8	I found a lot of problematic issues within museum display.
1:01.5	You know, the collections are the collections.
1:02.9	Fantastic.
1:03.6	But it's how they talk about them, how they display them, is extremely different from one museum to the other.
1:10.4	And how people react to them,
1:11.9	relate to them, is different. That and more is ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
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