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Ian Schrager on Consistently Capturing the Zeitgeist
Season 8 Episode 100
Behind every unforgettable space and every extraordinary experience is a certain je ne sais quoi. If anyone has an idea of what exactly that is, it’s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sanford Biggers on Patching Together the Past, Present, and Future Through Art
Season 8 Episode 99
To Sanford Biggers, the past, present, and future are intertwined and all part of one big, long now. Over the past three decades, the Harlem-based ar…
2 years, 11 months ago
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,…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 months ago