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Edwina von Gal on Gardening as an Antidote
Time Sensitive - June 26, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo the landscape designer Edwina von Gal, gardening is much more than just seeding, planting, weeding, and watering; it’s her life calling. Since starting her namesake firm in 1984 in East Hampton, on New York’s Long Island, she has worked with, for, and/or alongside the likes of Calvin Klein, L...
Hiroshi Sugimoto on Photography as a Form of Timekeeping
Time Sensitive - June 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsWhile he may technically practice as a photographer, artist, and architect, Hiroshi Sugimoto could also be considered, from a wider-lens perspective, a chronicler of time. With a body of work now spanning nearly five decades, Sugimoto began making pictures in earnest in 1976 with his ongoing “Di...
Ramdane Touhami on Why He Will Never Slow Down
Time Sensitive - May 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsSoon to celebrate his 50th birthday by journeying from Paris to Tokyo by car along the Southern Silk Road, the French Moroccan creative director, artist, and entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami says he’s “thirsty for life like it’s just the beginning,” and it shows. Among his 17 (yes, 17) companies are...
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Need to Recognize Coexisting Truths
Time Sensitive - May 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAt age 4, following the fall of Saigon, in 1975, Viet Thanh Nguyen and his family fled Vietnam and came to the U.S. as refugees. Throughout the turmoil and its aftermath, neither he nor his family could have imagined that he would go on to not only become an internationally renowned novelist—win...
Thaddeus Mosley on Making Art to Be Appreciated for Centuries
Time Sensitive - May 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsBorn and raised in Pennsylvania, the 97-year-old Pittsburgh-based artist and sculptor Thaddeus Mosley has a deep and enduring obsession with wood. In his late 20s, he began to use the material for art, carving sculptures in his basement studio, and with his sculpture-making now spanning 70 years...
Adam Pendleton on His Ongoing Exploration of “Black Dada”
Time Sensitive - April 24, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMost widely recognized for his paintings that rigorously combine spray paint, stenciled geometric forms, and brushstrokes, the Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton is also known for his “Black Dada” framework, an ever-evolving philosophy that investigates various relationships between Blackness,...
Paul Smith on Imbuing Clothing With Joy and Humor
Time Sensitive - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe cheeky, happy-go-lucky spirit of the British fashion designer Paul Smith can be felt across everything he does, from his own clothing designs to his multifarious collaborations—Maharam textiles, Mini cars, Burton snowboards, and a suite at the Brown’s Hotel in London among them. Though Smith...
Lucy Sante on on Transitioning Into Herself at Long Last
Time Sensitive - April 03, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThree years ago, at age 66, the Belgium-born writer and critic Lucy Sante—known for her award-winning essays, criticism, and books, including Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991)—announced to a few dozen close friends that she was transitioning to womanhood. This news came following...
Ilse Crawford on Creating Lasting, “Living” Spaces
Time Sensitive - March 20, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo the cult British interior and furniture designer Ilse Crawford, interiors too often take a backseat to architecture. Through her humanistic, systems-thinking, “Frame for Life” approach, however, Crawford has shown how interiors and architecture should instead be viewed on the same plane and, ...
Massimo Bottura on Ethics, Aesthetics, and Slow Food
Time Sensitive - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe Italian chef Massimo Bottura may be a big dreamer, but he’s also a firmly grounded-in-the-earth operator. Based in Modena, Italy, Bottura is famous for his three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Osteria Francescana, which has twice held the top spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. He al...
Helen Molesworth on Museums as Machines for Slowness
Time Sensitive - December 20, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo Helen Molesworth, curating is much more than carefully selecting and positioning noteworthy artworks and objects alongside one another within a space; it’s also about telling stories through them and about them, and in turn, communicating particular, often potent messages. Her probing writing...
Annabelle Selldorf on Architecture as Portraiture
Time Sensitive - December 06, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIn another life, the German-born architect Annabelle Selldorf might have been a painter or a profile writer. In this one, she expresses her proclivity for portraiture as the principal of the New York–based firm Selldorf Architects, which she founded in 1988. Renowned for its work in the art worl...
Walter Hood on Connecting People and Place Through Landscape Architecture
Time Sensitive - November 29, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo the landscape architect Walter Hood, “place” is a nebulous concept made meaningful only through the illumination of its history and the people who have inhabited it. Hood has dedicated his career to this very perspective through his roles as creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio...
Min Jin Lee on the Healing Power of Fiction
Time Sensitive - November 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMin Jin Lee could be considered an exemplar of the old adage “slow and steady wins the race.” The author’s bestselling 2017 novel Pachinko—a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a television series for Apple TV+ in 2022—took 30 years to write from its ...
Mira Nakashima on Keeping Her Father’s Woodworking Legacy Alive
Time Sensitive - November 08, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIn 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 architect and furniture maker Mira Nakashima, has not only artfully built upon his techniques and time-h...
Ian Schrager on Consistently Capturing the Zeitgeist
Time Sensitive - October 25, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsBehind 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-founder Ian Schrager. For more than four decades, Schrager has been a defining cultural catalyst and b...
Sanford Biggers on Patching Together the Past, Present, and Future Through Art
Time Sensitive - October 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo 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 ways not dissimilar to a hip-hop D.J. or a quilter—to create clever, deeply metaphorical, darkl...
Edmund de Waal on Pottery, Poetry, and the Act of Letting Go
Time Sensitive - October 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe 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 alchemy, embodying traces of far-away or long-ago ancestors, ideas, and histories. This fall, t...
Trent Davis Bailey on Finding Family and Community Through Photography
Time Sensitive - September 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe 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 place-based work. This summer, his first-ever solo museum exhibition, “Personal Geographies” (on v...
Robert Wilson on the Wonder to Be Found in Time, Space, and Light
Time Sensitive - September 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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 known as the director of the four-act opera Einstein on the Beach, which he composed with Philip G...
José Parlá on Coming Back to Life Through Art
Time Sensitive - July 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThrough 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, and mark-making. Coming up in Miami in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Parlá spent his adolescen...
Tom Dixon on Designing With Longevity in Mind
Time Sensitive - June 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe 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, more recently, cork and aluminum. Entirely self-trained and without any formal design education, D...
Jessica B. Harris on Making Vast Connections Across African American Cooking and Culture
Time Sensitive - June 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsDr. 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 cooking in particular—she has, over the past 40 years, published 12 books documenting the foods a...
Samuel Ross on the Art of “Awakening” Materials
Time Sensitive - June 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe 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 practice spans high fashion, streetwear, painting, sculpture, installation, stage design, sound design,...
Jelani Cobb on 50 Years of Hip-Hop and the Future of Journalism
Time Sensitive - May 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo 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 Columbia Journalism School, where he has been on the faculty since 2016, Cobb has written on sub...
Marilyn Minter on Pioneering Sex-Positive Feminism in the Art World and Beyond
Time Sensitive - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsOver 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 by men—and presents it through the lens of female desire. Among her most acclaimed works are her ...
Ari Shapiro on Finding Clarity and Connection Through Listening
Time Sensitive - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAs 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 unfolding across the globe. At NPR for more than two decades now, Shapiro has made it his mission t...
Anders Byriel on Redefining the Idea of “Company Culture”
Time Sensitive - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsOver his 25 years as CEO of the Danish textile company Kvadrat, Anders Byriel has turned what was once a small, fairly dusty family design business into a global giant. Perhaps just as notably, he’s taken a radical, and even artistic, approach to building and cultivating the brand’s culture, par...
Tina Barney on Photography as a Way of Marking Time Across Generations
Time Sensitive - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAcross her 40-year-long career, the photographer Tina Barney has become internationally renowned for capturing her particular milieus—family, friends, and neighbors in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, most notably, but also in New York and Sun Valley, Idaho. On this week’s episode of Time Sensitive, sh...
Nick Cave on Art as a Means of Working Through Grief and Trauma
Time Sensitive - March 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Time Sensitive—our first of Season 7—Chicago-based artist Nick Cave talks about his career-spanning retrospective, “Forothermore,” currently on view at the Guggenheim (through April 10), which takes over three floors and features installation, video works, and sculpture...
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