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Edmund de Waal on Pottery, Poetry, and the Act of Letting Go
Season 8 Episode 98
The London-based artist, master potter, and author Edmund de Waal has an astoundingly astute sense for the inner lives of objects. Each of his works,…
2 years, 5 months ago
Trent Davis Bailey on Finding Family and Community Through Photography
Season 8 Episode 97
The artist and photographer Trent Davis Bailey (our host, Spencer Bailey’s, identical twin brother) continually seeks to unearth the tangled roots of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Robert Wilson on the Wonder to Be Found in Time, Space, and Light
Season 8 Episode 96
For each and every performance the theater director, playwright, choreographer, and sound and lighting designer Robert Wilson creates, time isn’t jus…
2 years, 6 months ago
José Parlá on Coming Back to Life Through Art
Season 7 Episode 95
Through his abstract paintings, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá explores themes ranging from memory, gesture, and layering, to movem…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tom Dixon on Designing With Longevity in Mind
Season 7 Episode 94
The renegade British designer Tom Dixon has long had a roving obsession with raw materials—everything from cast iron, steel, and copper; to clay, gla…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jessica B. Harris on Making Vast Connections Across African American Cooking and Culture
Season 7 Episode 93
Dr. Jessica B. Harris is renowned as the grande dame of African American cookbooks. One of the world’s foremost historians, scholars, writers, and th…
2 years, 9 months ago
Samuel Ross on the Art of “Awakening” Materials
Season 7 Episode 92
The term “polymath” is unquestionably overused, and often just plain wrong, but it suits the multi-hyphenate British designer, creative director, and…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jelani Cobb on 50 Years of Hip-Hop and the Future of Journalism
Season 7 Episode 91
To Jelani Cobb, reading, writing, and education are inherently acts of empowerment, and sometimes even ones of defiance. A staff writer at The New Yo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Marilyn Minter on Pioneering Sex-Positive Feminism in the Art World and Beyond
Season 7 Episode 90
Over the past 50 or so years, Marilyn Minter has been on a roving exploration of feminist, sex-positive thinking. In her art-making, she harnesses th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ari Shapiro on Finding Clarity and Connection Through Listening
Season 7 Episode 89
As the co-host of NPR’s flagship news program All Things Considered, Ari Shapiro is a go-to source for tens of millions of Americans for essential de…
2 years, 11 months ago