Kevin Beasley on Confronting the Social and Cultural Underlayers of Objects
Kevin Beasley thinks a lot about objects. In particular, specific objects that relate to notions of American-ness and Blackness—and ones that are often linked, subtly or not, with violence. Whether wi...
30 Juni 20211h 34min
Rosanne Cash on Moving Forward by Confronting the Past
For Grammy Award–winning singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash, processing the past is a constant, endless journey. She’d been thinking about race and reparations long before the Movement for Black Lives...
26 Maj 20211h 14min
Billie Tsien on Imbuing Buildings With Feeling
Growing up in the 1950s in the only Chinese family in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Billie Tsien always felt like an outsider. She would seclude herself in the shower of her family’s home’s master bat...
28 Apr 20211h 25min
Eileen Fisher on the Allure of Timeless Clothing
For 37 years, Eileen Fisher has faithfully followed a vision: to create simple, timeless clothes for women that make it easy to get dressed. Soft-spoken, polite, and a self-described introvert, the 70...
24 Mars 20211h 7min
Eddie Stern on Taking Time to Discover Your Inner Freedom of Spirit
Last year, after more than three decades of practicing and teaching Ashtanga yoga, Eddie Stern found himself wondering if he should continue in the discipline. He’d amassed a considerable following th...
24 Feb 20211h 19min
Simon Critchley on Finding Clarity in Philosophy and Comedy
Simon Critchley has seen his share of accidents. In his younger years, he damaged his hands while working in manufacturing plants, and ruined his hearing by rehearsing with a punk band in spaces with ...
27 Jan 20211h 8min
Monique Péan on the Transformative Nature of Fossils, Rocks, and Meteorites
New York–based jewelry and object designer Monique Péan sees fossils and extraterrestrial materials as portals to another time, space, and place. Pyritized dinosaur bones, woolly mammoth tooth roots, ...
16 Dec 202057min
Dan Colen on Shifting Perspectives Through Farming and Art
Artist Dan Colen built Sky High Farm in the same way all his ideas are realized: intuitively, and with the faith to see it through. A 40-acre self-sustaining ecosystem in New York’s Hudson Valley, the...
18 Nov 202058min
