[close] Kurt Andersen is the co-creator and host of Studio 360, WNYC and Public Radio International's art and culture program. He is the author of best-selling novels Heyday (Random House, 2007), and Turn of the Century (Random House, 1999) and writes a monthly column for New York Magazine called "The Imperial City." Formerly, Kurt was a design critic and cultural columnist for Time and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Spy, editor-in-chief at New York Magazine and a staff writer and columnist at The New Yorker. He curated the exhibition "Faster, Newer, Cheaper, More: Revolutions of 1848," at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2004. Kurt's numerous awards include a Peabody Award, a New York Magazine "100 People Who Changed New York" accolade and an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island School of Design. [close]