Valerie Steele on Why Paris Won’t Ever Be Dethroned as the Capital of Fashion
Valerie Steele’s deep contextual dives into the history of fashion set her apart from other academics and curators—two identities she embodies in equal parts. The chief curator and director of the Mus...
14 Aug 20191h 8min
Michael Kimmelman on Building More Beautiful and Equitable Cities
Michael Kimmelman does nothing in half measures. For more than 30 years, he has brought his assertive, culturally astute, historically sensitive perspective to The New York Times, which he has been co...
7 Aug 20191h 8min
Illycaffè Chairman Andrea Illy on the Vast Potential of “Virtuous Agriculture”
Andrea Illy breathes coffee. Not literally, of course, but coffee has indeed been a part of his being since birth. The third-generation head of Illycaffè, he is the company’s chairman and, with CEO Ma...
31 Juli 201955min
Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
New Jersey native Maggie Doyne was age 18 when she arrived in Nepal, 19 when she had co-founded the BlinkNow Foundation nonprofit to support children in the district of Surkhet, and by 25, she had bec...
24 Juli 20191h
Special Episode: Spencer Bailey Reflects on the Crash-Landing of United Airlines Flight 232
Thirty years ago, on July 19, 1989, at 37,000 feet in the air, the titanium fan disk in the tail-mounted engine of United Airlines Flight 232—a DC-10 carrying 296 people from Denver to Chicago—explode...
17 Juli 201943min
Google Design Guru Ivy Ross on Why Everything Is Pattern and Vibration
Few executives have the profoundly spiritual presence of Ivy Ross, who more than five years ago joined Google as a vice president, helping to lead the launch of the second edition of Glass at Google X...
10 Juli 20191h 9min
Andri Snær Magnason on How Time and Water Explain the Climate Crisis
For the past two decades, Andri Snær Magnason has been on a quest for language that truly gets at the heart of the climate crisis—the images, mythology, and syntax to crystallize the often-abstracted ...
3 Juli 20191h 18min
For Elizabeth Diller, New York City Is Beginning to Feel Like One Big Punch List
When Elizabeth Diller graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in architecture in 1979, she had no intention of necessarily becoming an architect. In fact, the Polish-born, New York–raised Diller cho...
26 Juni 20191h 19min
