EGG the arts show Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Art: Who Needs It?

  Influence of art; hanging cans; play; clock; dog sculpture; art gallery; music.

• Art. Who Needs It?

  Using art to enrich life; street artists; steel guitar players.

• Best of EGG: Love, Fear, Hope, and Dreams

  Pinhole cameras; sculpture; Burning Man Festival.

• The Body

  The body; video; tattoo parlor; Egypt.

• The Body

  The body as an art subject; mummification.

• Body Language

  Body language; hula dancing; ballet.

• Body Parts
• Broadway Workshop

  Making the Broadway musical 'Traps!'

• Close to Home

  Photographs; communication; privacy.

• Collectors

  Collectors; Alex Shear; Dennis Hopper; Vivian Hewitt; Enrico Caruso Museum.

• A Day at the Met

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• The Desert

  Nevada's Black Rock Desert; Texas; Las Vegas.

• Eat Me

  Food's history in art.

• EGG's Big Experiment

  Painter Ida Applebroog; fiberglass sculptures; poet Tracie Morris; puppeteer Basil Twist; singer Aimee Mann.

• EGG's Lucky Loyal Viewer Sweepstakes

  Photographer Sally Mann; tenor Juan Diego Florez; artist Andy Goldworthy.

• Experiments in Theatre

  A play progresses from paper to stage.

• Family

  Filmmaker Ross McElwee documents his everyday life; playwright Edward Albee; singing families.

• Flight

  Photographs of airline passengers; voice recorder transcripts; virtual universe ride; artist Alyne Harris.

• Gimme Shelter

  American skyscrapers' future; architect Paolo Soleri; architect Samuel Mockbee.

• Giving Up the Ghost

  Artists' work reflects death; photographer Sally Mann; singer Ralph Stanley; taxidermist Tim Bovard.

• Hair!

  Hair; African hairstyles; the musical 'Hair'; violin bow.

• The History of Sound

  The Smithsonian Folkways label preserves American vernacular sound; the Nepalese Tuva singers.

• Homegrown Sounds

  Music; polka; drummer.

• How to Be Happy

  Visual artist Jeff Koons; bonsai; poetry; yodeling.

• In Freedom

  Shirin Neshat explores injustices against Iranian women through film and photography; graphic novelist Joe Sacco documents the struggles of civilians in Bosnia and Palestine.

• Inspiration

  Actor Liev Schreiber develops his role as Iago in 'Othello'; Joshua Redman improvises jazz; artist Vik Muniz; painter Ann Gale.

• Jack LaLanne's Dance Spectacular

  Jack LaLanne; definition of ballet; choreographer David Parsons; salsa dancer Johnny Vazquez.

• The Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara Show: Jerry Feels Sad

  Jerry Stiller learns that art is good for the soul; puppy sculptures; muffler sculptures; polkas; bonsai.

• The Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara Show: Jerry Goes Macho

  Jerry Stiller muses about his masculinity; the male psyche in playwright David Mamet's works; poet Isidore Elfman.

• The Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara Show: Jerry Needs a Hobby

  Jerry Stiller searches for a hobby; highway sculptures; barbershop quartet singing; filmmaker Sid Laverents.

• The Jesus, Buddha & Mohammed Show
• Kiss & Tell

  Artists share their private lives; Elaine Stritch's one-woman show; writing workshop; visual artist Tracey Emin.

• Let's Get Physical!

  Amateur pianist; breasts; dancers.

• Love, Longing, Desire

  Emotion; collectors; tango; poetry.

• Machismo

  Machismo; David Mamet; sculptor; male ballerinas; muffler art.

• Machismo

  Being macho; playwright David Mamet; Ed Roth; muffler sculptures; dance company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

• Made in the U.S.A.

  Fairs; pinhole cameras; pasture.

• Meet the Micrecians

  Cinema movement.

• Men Have Feelings, Too

  Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan; writer Richard Ford; photographer Charlie White; singer Glyn Styler.

• Money, Greed, Power

  Money; greed; power.

• Money, Greed, Power

  Money; power; playwright Arthur Miller; artist Barbara Kruger.

• The Mysteries of Life Explained for You

  Premise that life makes no sense; Museum of Jurassic Technology; artist Andy Goldsworthy explores nature's mystery and beauty.

• Off the Charts

  Music; polkas; blues; percussionist.

• Paint by Numbers

  Three stories show how anyone can make art.

• The Play's the Thing

  Theater; August Wilson; Mary Zimmerman; Greg Kotis; Mark Hollman.

• The Road

  Design studio; concept car; metal sculptor; artist Ed Ruscha.

• Scrambled Eggs

  Show highlights; Damien Hirst's sculpture; Sapelo Island's culture; crop art; Minnesota State Fair; Enrico Caruso Museum.

• Scrambled Eggs

  Highlights; Chinati Foundation; poet; Museum of Jurassic Technology.

• Scrambled Eggs

  Highlights; bonsai; violin bowmaker; New York's Fringe Festival; choreographer; collage films.

• Scrambled Eggs

  Highlights; pinhole cameras; polka music; Hawaiian steel guitar.

• Scrambled Eggs

  Highlights; artist Vanessa Beecroft; photographs; Japan's dance of darkness.

• Slippery When Wet

  Mary Zimmerman's play 'Metamorphoses' takes place in a pool; Connie Imboden takes underwater black and white photos; ice sculpture competition; surf photographers.

• Space

  Outer space; monument.

• Space

  Land sculpture; artists; dance troupe; filmmaker Craig Baldwin; imagination.

• The Spencer Kayden Show

  Filmmaker Craig Baldwin's collage film; choreographer Moses Pendleton; photographer Gregory Crewdson visits Lee, Mass.

• Theater on the Edge

  Theater; festival; Huey Newton; directors Richard Maxwell and Julie Taymor.

• Unnatural Science

  Artists; food photographs; computer program.

• The Voice

  The human voice; tenor Juan Diego Florez; Drepung Gomang monks chant; Sam Moore; poet Tracie Morris.

• What Is the Ideal Woman?

  Photography; sculptor; nude models; Ani DiFranco; video artist; quilting.

• What Is the Ideal Woman?

  The experiences and expectations of women; Vanessa Beecroft; Alison Saar; Annie Leibovitz; Pipilotti Rist.

• What's the Big Idea?

  Ideas; Yoko Ono; Tom Friedman; RTMark.

• When Bad Puppets Apologize

  Puppets present a wholesome show.

• When Good Puppets Go Bad

  Puppets on television.

• Who Am I?

  Identity; photographers; teenagers' bedrooms; African-Americans; nude photos.

• Who Am I?

  Photographers Arno Rafael Minkinnen, Cindy Sherman, Buce Gilden and Ernest C. Withers.

• Who's the Art Boss?

  Curators; museum; choreographers; exhibition.

• Working Actors

  Actors face challenges in their careers.

• Working Dancers

  Dancers; ballet.

• Working Dancers

  Ballerinas; modern dancers; dancer Dudley Williams.

• Working Dancers II

  Professional teen dancer; salsa dancer; Broadway chorus girl.