Part one of Art Is features Alex Katz, Dorothea Rockburne, Marina Abramovic, Anthony McCall, Jonathan Feldschuh, Alison Knowles, Evelyna Domnitch, Gary Hill, Tim Rollins, Nobuho Nagasawa and many other artists and shares their perceptions of art.

On October 27, Art Spiegelman sat down with eminent book designer Chip Kidd to discuss In the Shadow of No Towers, the artist's first new book of comics since Maus for this far-reaching interview at the New School University's Auditorium.

Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet Magazine, introduces authors Andrea Codrington, Jonathan Ames and others at this reading to benefit the art quarterly. Ames closes the program with the first-ever mass Luscher Color Test.

Recorded for ARTonAIR.org at The New School University as part of the New York Times' Times Talks: Women's Series, editorial page editor and author Gail Collins interviews Gloria Steinem, the award-winning editor, journalist and equal rights leader.