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 Juli 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 Juni 20231h 10min
Jessica B. Harris on Making Vast Connections Across African American Cooking and Culture
Dr. Jessica B. Harris is renowned as the grande dame of African American cookbooks. One of the world’s foremost historians, scholars, writers, and thinkers when it comes to food—and African American c...
14 Juni 20231h 14min
Samuel Ross on the Art of “Awakening” Materials
The term “polymath” is unquestionably overused, and often just plain wrong, but it suits the multi-hyphenate British designer, creative director, and artist Samuel Ross, whose hard-to-pin-down practic...
7 Juni 20231h 28min
Jelani Cobb on 50 Years of Hip-Hop and the Future of Journalism
To Jelani Cobb, reading, writing, and education are inherently acts of empowerment, and sometimes even ones of defiance. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015 and recently appointed the dean of ...
24 Maj 20231h 17min
Marilyn Minter on Pioneering Sex-Positive Feminism in the Art World and Beyond
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 the power of sexual imagery—a realm long controlled b...
10 Maj 20231h 14min
Ari Shapiro on Finding Clarity and Connection Through Listening
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 deep-dives into some of the most critical stories unf...
26 Apr 20231h 5min
