Mira Nakashima on Keeping Her Father’s Woodworking Legacy Alive
In art and design circles, the name George Nakashima is synonymous with expert woodworking, exquisite furniture, and high-quality craftsmanship. Over the past 30-plus years, his daughter, the architec...
8 Nov 20231h 12min
Ian Schrager on Consistently Capturing the Zeitgeist
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 the hospitality impresario and Studio 54 co-founde...
25 Okt 20231h 7min
Sanford Biggers on Patching Together the Past, Present, and Future Through Art
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 artist has woven various threads of place and time—in...
18 Okt 20231h 2min
Edmund de Waal on Pottery, Poetry, and the Act of Letting Go
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, whether in clay or stone, is imbued with a certain...
4 Okt 20231h 8min
Trent Davis Bailey on Finding Family and Community Through Photography
The artist and photographer Trent Davis Bailey (our host, Spencer Bailey’s, identical twin brother) continually seeks to unearth the tangled roots of his identity through his intensely personal and pl...
20 Sep 20231h 27min
Robert Wilson on the Wonder to Be Found in Time, Space, and Light
For each and every performance the theater director, playwright, choreographer, and sound and lighting designer Robert Wilson creates, time isn’t just of the essence—it is the essence. Perhaps best kn...
13 Sep 20231h 1min
José Parlá on Coming Back to Life Through Art
Through his abstract paintings, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá explores themes ranging from memory, gesture, and layering, to movement, dance, and hip-hop culture, to codes, mapping,...
26 Jul 20231h 14min
Tom Dixon on Designing With Longevity in Mind
The renegade British designer Tom Dixon has long had a roving obsession with raw materials—everything from cast iron, steel, and copper; to clay, glass, and stone; to felt, plastic, and marble; to, mo...
28 Jun 20231h 10min
