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Simon Critchley on Giving Up the Fantasy of Mastery
Season 14 Episode 159
Who better to bring remarkable clarity to the density of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time than the British philosopher and New School professor Simo…
2 hours ago
Jacques Pépin on “Taste Memory” and a Life in the Kitchen
Season 14 Episode 158
Jacques Pépin has long found beauty in simplicity—a glass of warm milk, a freshly sliced lemon, a garden-ripe tomato—and in transmitting knowledge fr…
1 week ago
Iris van Herpen on Visualizing the Invisible Through Haute Couture
Season 14 Episode 157
Iris van Herpen’s boundary-defying, otherworldly work exists somewhere between couture, sculpture, science, technology, architecture, and nature. For…
3 weeks ago
Dries Van Noten on the Meaning Found in Making
Season 13 Episode 156
Dries Van Noten’s lifelong fascination with craft and making runs deep. He grew up in a multigenerational family of retailers and tailors in Antwerp,…
3 months, 1 week ago
Felix Burrichter on Print’s Enduring Power in the Algorithmic Age
Season 13 Episode 155
Through PIN–UP, the German-born, New York–based editor, curator, and founder Felix Burrichter continues to expand the possibilities of what an archit…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Maria Popova on the Role of Chance in Shaping Our Lives
Season 13 Episode 154
Through her multifaceted work, the Bulgarian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, reader, and researcher Maria Popova, founder of the “free, ad-free, A.I.-fr…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sheila Hicks on Life as a Series of Portals
Season 13 Episode 153
For our latest “site-specific” episode of Time Sensitive, Spencer meets Sheila Hicks inside her courtyard in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborh…
4 months, 1 week ago
Valerie June on Joy as a Form of Resistance
Season 13 Episode 152
The singer-songwriter Valerie June has a gift for writing contemporary songs that feel timeless and as though they could also have existed at various…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
George Saunders on the Power of Fiction to Enliven the World
Season 13 Episode 151
The novelist, essayist, and short-story writer George Saunders—widely celebrated for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Man Booker …
5 months ago
Alma Allen on Connecting to the Primordial Through Art
Season 13 Episode 150
There’s an animate quality to the biomorphic sculptures of the self-taught, Utah-born artist Alma Allen. His works, carved from wood, marble, and bro…
5 months, 2 weeks ago