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Examines how teaching art to children has become a hot topic in America, as educators are questioning what should be taught, who should teach it, and how.

Presents a portfolio of photographs from seven significant photographers, which sample the eclecticism of the camera art. Work and profiles of Mary Ellen Mark, Boyd Webb, Duane Michals, Eliot Porter, James Welling, Thomas Ruff, and Sheila Metzner.

Profiles American artist and part-time professor of painting at Yale University, Jake Berthot. Discusses how, over the past two decades, he has moved from cool geometric abstractions to encrusted, passionately felt canvases.

All over New York City, the art scene is moving at high velocity. Reports and photographs of 16 artists and art galleries, which capture a week in the life of New York's art world, day by day.

America's first indigenous art movement, the Hudson River School, came into being in the mid-1820s, when the young nation was feeling its oats. The lofty sentiments of the artists were in perfect harmony with both the growing national pride of that era and the sense of vast natural wonders waiting to be discovered and extolled.

Work by American artist Mary Frank, 53, is beautiful and exhilarating. Her nudes, animals and blossoms evoke emotions of joy, grief and wonder. Her work with clay and monoprints.

Profiles one of today's most versatile painters, Ellen Phelan, 48. Her ability to move between high romantic landscapes, lush abstractions and cryptic portraits of dolls; Importance of music in her life; Her consummate technique; Her husband, sculptor Joel Shapiro; Similarities with Shapiro's work; Phelan's interest in the way the two-dimensional and three-dimensional properies of an artwork can be made to interact; Inspiration from a number of post-Minalmist sculptors; More.

Profiles American artist Kathy Muehlemann, whose small, intensely focused pictures practically shimmer with obsessive, visionary intensity. Working style; Personal life; Description of studio.

Profiles Hilma of Klint, a Swedish painter who died in 1944 and whose works are receiving new appreciation. Influence of spiritual beliefs on her painting.

Visits the Empire Bronze Foundry in Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. Comments by founder Brian Ramnarine; Work with artists to create sculpture; Description of factory and how bronze is melted.