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Filth

When art is dirty—and dirt is arty.

Getting dirty with Fifty Shades of Grey, John Waters, and diapers.

Photo illustration by Studio 360. Images by Vintage Books, Danny Moloshok/Reuters, and Jennifer Chong/CC BY 2.0.

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Filth in all its forms—whimsical and mundane, literal and figurative. Kurt talks to America’s auteur of the scatological, filmmaker John Waters. Writer Henry Alford and comedian Dave Hill visit a museum exhibit where all the art is made of dirt or trash. Who’s selling and who’s reading the smutty best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey? We get to the bottom of the shockingly complex world of diaper design. And indie rock band Dirty Projectors performs live in our studio.

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