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Rerun: 23. Daniel Brush on Making Some of the Most Extraordinary and Exquisite Objects on Earth
Time Sensitive - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFrom the archive: The late artist, jewelry-maker, and metalsmith Daniel Brush, who died on Nov. 26, 2022, at age 75, talks about memory (and interpretations of memory); his deep, monkish engagement with a wide variety of materials; and some of his most valuable tools—breathing, language, and light.
Ruthie Rogers on Cooking as an Act of Imagination
Time Sensitive - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor the American-born chef and restaurateur Ruth Rogers, owner of the Michelin-starred River Cafe on the north bank of the Thames in London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, food is a portal: to memories and cultures. To conversations. To meaningful connections. Since Rogers, who goes by Ruthie, co-...
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen on the Profound Impacts of Humanitarian Entrepreneurship
Time Sensitive - December 14, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsOne small step for Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, one giant leap for mankind. So goes the story of several of the entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian’s pursuits over the past three decades. At present the founder and CEO of Sceye, a company building stratospheric platforms to help preve...
Hank Willis Thomas on Acknowledging the Multitudes of Truths Among Us
Time Sensitive - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe artist Hank Willis Thomas is a voracious reader, not only of books, but of the world around us—and particularly, of images. Through his practice, Thomas interrogates and investigates, probes and prods, and ultimately helps make sense of various strands of visual culture—advertising, photogra...
Tina Roth Eisenberg on the Deep Value of Heart-Centered Leadership
Time Sensitive - November 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe Swiss-born, Brooklyn-based designer Tina Roth Eisenberg has, over the past 15 years or so, built a cult following of creatives around the world who, like her, constantly seek to connect, reflect, and grow together—and who view her as an inspirational curator and guide. In 2008, Eisenberg fou...
Michael Bierut on the Enduring Power of Simplicity
Time Sensitive - November 16, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAcross his four-decade-long career in graphic design, Michael Bierut has amassed an impressively robust tally of bold-faced clients. From The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the Robin Hood Foundation to Mastercard, the New York Jets, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bierut and his team ...
Eric Ripert on Finding Compassion in Life and the Kitchen Through Buddhism
Time Sensitive - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAs the New York restaurant Le Bernardin celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, chef Eric Ripert humbly reflects on his three-plus decades there. Over this time, he has brought his artistic vision fully to life, subtly evolving it season to season and year to year, creating an exquisite exper...
Brad Cloepfil on the Eternal Quest for Awe in Architecture
Time Sensitive - November 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe architect Brad Cloepfil views his work as less of a job and more of a calling. Sites speak to him. He listens with his eyes. When embarking on a project, Cloepfil slowly feels out the place, studying its particularities closely in order to understand its truest, deepest nature. He and his Po...
Annie-B Parson on Choreography as a Way of Life
Time Sensitive - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsTo Annie-B Parson, choreography isn’t confined to the studio and the stage; rather, practically everything around us abounds with movement that’s worth paying attention to. In her new, aptly titled book, The Choreography of Everyday Life, an inventive, observant, and witty ode to her relationshi...
Saeed Jones on the Profundity to Be Found in the Grieving Process
Time Sensitive - October 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIf there were a bard for our bewildering times, Saeed Jones would be a fitting choice. In his newly released collection of poems, Alive at the End of the World, Jones dances through grief, rage, and trauma—collective and personal—with acerbic clarity and sharp-edged wit. It is a book that gets t...
Peter Saville on Capturing “Nowness” Through Design
Time Sensitive - October 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsPeter Saville is a man of the moment—and has been, again and again, throughout the past five decades. Raised in Manchester, England, in the sixties—in tandem with the growing prominence of counterculture, the rise of anti-war sentiments, and the birth of pop—Saville developed early on a keen eye...
Roxane Gay on Using Her Voice for Good and in Service of Others
Time Sensitive - October 05, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsRoxane Gay describes her wild trajectory as a multihyphenate writer-editor-publisher-professor-social commentator as “fairly bewildering.” And she’s not wrong: Over the past decade—and with long odds stacked up against her as a queer Black woman of size—Gay has had a meteoric rise in the media a...
Jamie Nares on Creating Space for Fluidity in Life and Work
Time Sensitive - September 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor the past five decades, the British-born, New York–based artist Jamie Nares has been capturing the passage of time, the physics of motion, and the essence of self through a wide variety of mediums, including film, painting, music, photography, and performance. Many of Nares’s films, such as P...
Xiye Bastida on Why “Stubborn Optimism” Is Pivotal to the Climate Movement
Time Sensitive - September 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsXiye Bastida was quite literally born into environmentalism. Throughout her upbringing in San Pedro Tultepec, Mexico, and later in New York City, Bastida’s Indigenous community leader father, of the Otomi-Toltec people, and Chilean ethno-ecologist mother taught her the importance of ancestral wi...
Rachel Comey on Meeting Her Customers Right Where They’re At
Time Sensitive - September 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFashion designer Rachel Comey has always done things in a tightly focused way—and on her own terms. For more than two decades, she has followed an independent, wholly original approach to clothing design and retail that has resulted in her eponymous brand’s staying power. From novelty underwear ...
Céline Semaan on Why Slowing Down Is Essential for Our Collective Survival
Time Sensitive - September 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor Céline Semaan, the founder of Slow Factory, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing climate justice and social equity, no obstacle is too big—or too conceptual—to surmount. Underlying all of Slow Factory’s efforts is the notion of “fashion activism,” a term that’s been credited to Semaan herself....
Baratunde Thurston on Humility as a Path to Wisdom
Time Sensitive - July 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor writer, comedian, and cultural critic Baratunde Thurston, host of the How to Citizen podcast, humility is a tool to connect with people—and to bring them together around some collective sense of truth. Through his work, Thurston serves as an ambassador to his audiences, always considering wh...
Jhumpa Lahiri on Translation as a Path to Self-Discovery
Time Sensitive - July 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAuthor and translator Jhumpa Lahiri grew up in what she has called “a linguistic exile.” Born in London to Bengali immigrants who moved to the United States when she was 3, Lahiri experienced a profound sense of alienation as a child and a longing for somewhere that felt like home. Then, during ...
Jancis Robinson on the Wondrous World of Wine
Time Sensitive - June 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsJancis Robinson wrote the book on wine. Literally. The author of the first four editions of the definitive Oxford Companion to Wine, she has also published some 20 books on the subject and more than 1,500 articles for the Financial Times, for which she has been the wine correspondent since 1989....
David Broza on Making Music That Transcends Borders
Time Sensitive - June 22, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIsraeli singer-songwriter David Broza believes that music can unite people across cultures and has spent the past 45 years showing audiences how it can be done. One of his latest projects exemplifies this philosophy: Beginning in October, once a month during the Friday Kabbalat Shabbat services ...
Deborah Needleman on the Humble Joys of Making Baskets and Brooms
Time Sensitive - June 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIf life is a garden, the writer, editor, and craftsperson Deborah Needleman certainly knows how to dig and cultivate it. Early in her career, she followed a nonlinear path in the media industry that was, for the better part of a decade, slow and steady—and then, upon launching the home design bi...
Bethann Hardison on Pushing Fashion Forward and Toward “Complete Diversity”
Time Sensitive - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsBethann Hardison has, with great finesse, risen to become among the most vital voices in fashion. A self-described “advocate” who currently serves as Gucci’s executive advisor for global equity and cultural engagement, the former model and agent is a powerhouse figure who has not only reshaped c...
Paola Antonelli on Solving the World’s Biggest Challenges Through Design
Time Sensitive - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThere is perhaps no one on the planet with a bigger-picture view on the impact of design—in all of its manifestations—than Paola Antonelli. As the Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of architecture and design as well as its director of R&D, Antonelli consistently expands notions and definitio...
Alfredo Jaar on Bringing Reality Into Focus
Time Sensitive - May 18, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAlfredo Jaar illuminates truths that often escape popular consciousness. Through his work, the artist and filmmaker raises awareness about sociopolitical issues that have been forgotten, suppressed, or ignored, including genocide and the displacement of refugees. Simultaneously, he informs and e...
Dan Barber on How Seeds Will Revolutionize Our Food System
Time Sensitive - May 11, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsDan Barber is on a mission to quite literally plant seeds for a better future. Around a decade ago, after learning that the nation’s largest food companies rarely breed food for flavor—and instead select for self-serving characteristics, such as the ability to produce high yields or endure long-...
John Hoke on Technology as a Co-Conspirator in Creativity
Time Sensitive - May 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsJohn Hoke, Nike’s chief design officer, intimately understands how to move design from an object to a feeling. At the company over the past three decades, he has refined his approach to center around creating designs that serve wearers in practical yet unexpected ways, and that often redefine wh...
Claudia Rankine on Confronting Whiteness Head-On Through Language
Time Sensitive - April 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsClaudia Rankine cuts to the chase. She does not mince her words. The poet, essayist, playwright, and educator—whose recent body of work analyzes white supremacy in America—looks closely at its subtle and not-so-subtle manifestations, personal and systemic. Her forthright attention to the unspoke...
Kenny Schachter on Taking the Art World to Task
Time Sensitive - April 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsKenny Schachter has an insatiable appetite for all things art. The polymathic art dealer, curator, teacher, writer, critic, collector, and self-taught artist brings a Tasmanian Devil–level energy to all that he does, but always with great, arms-open passion and, even within his whirlwind of idea...
Reginald Dwayne Betts on How Freedom Can Begin With a Book
Time Sensitive - April 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor Reginald Dwayne Betts—a poet, lawyer, and activist who supports and contributes to prison decarceration efforts—reading and writing have a mind-expanding power that never wanes. The author of three books of poetry and a memoir, his prose is intimate and raw. Even when he’s not writing about ...
Rerun: 12. Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Time Sensitive - April 06, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMaggie Doyne, who co-founded the BlinkNow Foundation nonprofit at age 19, discusses how, over the past 13 years, she has developed a school, children’s home, health clinic, and women’s center in Surkhet, Nepal.
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