From The Newsroom: Profiling 33 Artists, Living On Three Continents

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM CST

Jeff Koons, famous for this sculpture, is one of the artists featured in Sarah Thornton's book.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Writer Sarah Thornton makes a political comparison of diverse, international artists in her new book “33 Artists in 3 Acts.”

And Aasif Mandvi of Daily Show fame grew up in three different countries. He talks about how bridging cultures meant searching for role models in unlikely places.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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