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Kenny Schachter on Taking the Art World to Task
Season 5 Episode 59
Kenny Schachter has an insatiable appetite for all things art. The polymathic art dealer, curator, teacher, writer, critic, collector, and self-taugh…
3 years, 11 months ago
Reginald Dwayne Betts on How Freedom Can Begin With a Book
Season 5 Episode 58
For Reginald Dwayne Betts—a poet, lawyer, and activist who supports and contributes to prison decarceration efforts—reading and writing have a mind-e…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rerun: 12. Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Season 5
Maggie Doyne, who co-founded the BlinkNow Foundation nonprofit at age 19, discusses how, over the past 13 years, she has developed a school, children…
3 years, 11 months ago
Michael Murphy on Architecture as a Vessel for Healing and Hope
Season 5 Episode 57
Michael Murphy believes in architecture that promotes connectivity, collectivity, and health, in the broadest sense of the term. As the founding prin…
3 years, 11 months ago
David Wallace-Wells on His Growing Optimism for the Planet’s Future
Season 5 Episode 56
David Wallace-Wells, author of the best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth and New York magazine’s editor-at-large, wields vivid language that make…
4 years ago
Wynton Marsalis on Jazz as a Tool for Understanding Life
Season 4 Episode 55
Trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, the managing and artistic director of New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), is a man bursting with endles…
4 years, 3 months ago
Siri Hustvedt on the Value in Embracing Ambiguity
Season 4 Episode 54
When Siri Hustvedt was 12 years old, she began reading 19th-century novels by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain that w…
4 years, 3 months ago
Daniel Humm on the Plant-Based Future of Fine Dining
Season 4 Episode 53
Throughout his life, Daniel Humm has constantly pushed himself to the edge. So when Covid-19 arrived, he understood the importance of a quick pivot. …
4 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth Alexander on Moving Forward in the Face of Adversity
Season 4 Episode 52
The poet, educator, and scholar Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, views her work as an urgent political act. Followi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Debbie Millman on the Importance of Playing the Long Game
Season 4 Episode 51
Artist and designer Debbie Millman has been fascinated by the power of branding for most of her life. And as the host of the Design Matters podcast (…
4 years, 5 months ago