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Li Edelkoort on Why Doing Less Is More
Time Sensitive - December 04, 2019 14:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe Dutch-born trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, founder of the Paris-based consultancy Trend Union, has a knack for being ahead of the curve. In fact, she kind of is the curve, the rare mind who—with her sharp eye, wide-ranging tastes, and quick wit—is able to situate herself within ...
Lidewij Edelkoort on Why Doing Less Is More
Time Sensitive - December 04, 2019 14:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe Dutch-born trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, founder of the Paris-based consultancy Trend Union, has a knack for being ahead of the curve. In fact, she kind of is the curve, the rare mind who—with her sharp eye, wide-ranging tastes, and quick wit—is able to situate herself within past, pre...
Craig Robins on Why Nature Is Our Greatest Luxury
Time Sensitive - November 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsCraig Robins strongly believes that all good things take time. Since launching his vast real estate enterprise Dacra in 1987, at age 24, he has, with this ideology in mind, become one of Miami’s shrewdest mover-shakers. Intimately involved in the revitalization of South Beach in the late ’80s an...
Miami Design District Developer Craig Robins on Why Nature Is Our Greatest Luxury
Time Sensitive - November 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsCraig Robins strongly believes that all good things take time. Since launching his vast real estate enterprise Dacra in 1987, at age 24, he has, with this ideology in mind, become one of Miami’s shrewdest mover-shakers. Intimately involved in the revitalization of South Beach in the lat...
Christian Madsbjerg on Why “Design Thinking” Is Bogus
Time Sensitive - November 20, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsChristian Madsbjerg makes sense. Literally and figuratively, in all the definitions of the phrase. With roots in philosophy and political science, Madsbjerg brings a refreshingly human approach to his work as an author, screenwriter, professor, entrepreneur, and business advisor. In the face of ...
Eric Standop on the Art and Science of Face Reading
Time Sensitive - November 13, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMany people turn to spiritual professionals such as astrologists and tarot card readers to help answer life’s most essential and cosmic questions. Eric Standop—international speaker, advisor, author, and facial diagnostics expert—guides people to look inward through a different method: by examin...
Rashid Johnson on Escapism and Upending the Notion of the “Monolithic Experience”
Time Sensitive - November 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsGrowing up in Evanston, Illinois, the artist Rashid Johnson had a “mixed bag”—racially, at least—of close friends. There were, he says, “four black guys, two Asian guys, two Jewish guys, a white English guy.…” They still keep in touch today via a text chain. This perspective, combined with the o...
Artist Rashid Johnson, Director of HBO’s “Native Son,” on Escapism and Upending the Notion of the “Monolithic Experience”
Time Sensitive - November 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsGrowing up in Evanston, Illinois, the artist Rashid Johnson had a “mixed bag”—racially, at least—of close friends. There were, he says, “four black guys, two Asian guys, two Jewish guys, a white English guy.…” They still keep in touch today via a text chain. This perspective, combined w...
How RoseLee Goldberg Reshaped the Landscape of Performance Art
Time Sensitive - October 30, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsIt’s safe to say that, if it weren’t for art historian RoseLee Goldberg, performance art would not be what it is today. Not even close. The founder of the nonprofit organization Performa, which for nearly 15 years has been putting on biennials of live performance around New York City, has for de...
Daniel Brush on Making Some of the Most Extraordinary and Exquisite Objects on Earth
Time Sensitive - October 23, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsDaniel Brush’s acute eye for detail, as well as the rigor and vigor he brings to his craft, comes through loud and clear in all of his creations. A poet of materiality, he is at once a metalworker, a jewelry-maker, a philosopher, an engineer, a blacksmith, a painter, and a sculptor. The late Dr....
Arctic Explorer and Adventure Guide Inge Solheim on Fighting Off Fear and Breaking Bad Habits
Time Sensitive - October 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsInge Solheim is a free spirit, a new-age explorer, and a wilderness guide-guru whose sense of freedom hinges upon not caring, at all, about what other people think of him. Leading trips to the most remote places in the world with diverse groups—ranging from scientists, to private client...
Inge Solheim on Fighting Off Fear and Breaking Bad Habits
Time Sensitive - October 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsInge Solheim is a free spirit, a new-age explorer, and a wilderness guide-guru whose sense of freedom hinges upon not caring, at all, about what other people think of him. Leading trips to the most remote places in the world with diverse groups—ranging from scientists, to private clients, to fil...
David Duchovny on the Climate Crisis, the Drawbacks of Technology, and the Craft of Writing
Time Sensitive - October 09, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsDavid Duchovny may be swooned over as the hunky special agent Fox William Mulder in The X-Files and Hank Moody in Californication, but it should be noted—and, in our opinion, more widely known—that he is also an accomplished novelist. Yes, novelist. In fact, he has published three novels with th...
“The X-Files” and “Californication” Star David Duchovny on the Climate Crisis, the Drawbacks of Technology, and the Craft of Writing
Time Sensitive - October 09, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsDavid Duchovny may be swooned over as the hunky special agent Fox William Mulder in The X-Files and Hank Moody in Californication, but it should be noted—and, in our opinion, more widely known—that he is also an accomplished novelist. Yes, novelist. In fact, he has published three novel...
Why Jesse Kamm Finds the Phrase “Global Expansion” Nauseating
Time Sensitive - October 02, 2019 10:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsJesse Kamm and her beloved waist-hugging, wide-legged “Kamm pants” embody minimalism. A proponent of producing fewer, better things, Kamm has committed to supporting local craftspeople by making all of her garments in Los Angeles and prioritizing the use of environmentally conscientious material...
Why Fashion Designer Jesse Kamm Finds the Phrase “Global Expansion” Nauseating
Time Sensitive - October 02, 2019 10:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsJesse Kamm and her beloved waist-hugging, wide-legged “Kamm pants” embody minimalism. A proponent of producing fewer, better things, Kamm has committed to supporting local craftspeople by making all of her garments in Los Angeles and prioritizing the use of environmentally conscientious...
Wu-Tang Clan “Whisperer” Sophia Chang on Becoming the “Baddest Bitch in the Room”
Time Sensitive - September 25, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsSophia Chang pulls no punches. As the self-described (and indeed) “first Asian woman in hip hop,” Chang carries herself—happily, proudly—with the bravado and swagger of the industry brethren she managed throughout much of the ’90s and 2000s, including Ol’ Dirty Bastard (O.D.B.), RZA, and GZA of ...
“People Collector” and Paper Magazine Co-Founder Kim Hastreiter on the Art of Connecting Culture
Time Sensitive - September 18, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsKim Hastreiter identifies as a “punk at heart.” The co-founder of Paper magazine, which she started in 1984 with David Hershkovits, she served as the publication’s co-editor-in-chief until handing it off, in 2017. At 67, she remains the cool mom of downtown New York. A curator, editor, ...
Kim Hastreiter on the Art of Connecting Culture
Time Sensitive - September 18, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsKim Hastreiter identifies as a “punk at heart.” The co-founder of Paper magazine, which she started in 1984 with David Hershkovits, she served as the publication’s co-editor-in-chief until handing it off, in 2017. At 67, she remains the cool mom of downtown New York. A curator, editor, writer, a...
From The Usual Suspects to Bohemian Rhapsody: Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel
Time Sensitive - September 11, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsCinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel has no style. No singular aesthetic, mood, or technique. Rather, his focus is on storytelling. From being the first to capture the Contras on film in Nicaragua to photographing the X-Men series and Superman Returns (2006), Sigel has worn many hats (and no, we’...
Neri Oxman on Her Extraordinary Visions for the “Biological Age”
Time Sensitive - September 04, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsNeri Oxman is simultaneously a hardcore ecologist, evocative futurist, meticulous artist, and abstract scientist. The 43-year-old Israeli-American designer, architect, inventor, and MIT Media Lab professor embodies the same dualities that her work hinges upon. Oxman’s multifarious projects trans...
Valerie Steele on Why Paris Won’t Ever Be Dethroned as the Capital of Fashion
Time Sensitive - August 14, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsValerie 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 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (since 1997 and 2003, respectively), she has produced...
FIT’s Valerie Steele on Why Paris Won’t Ever Be Dethroned as the Capital of Fashion
Time Sensitive - August 14, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsValerie 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 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (since 1997 and 2003, respectively), she has...
New York Times Critic Michael Kimmelman on Building More Beautiful and Equitable Cities
Time Sensitive - August 07, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMichael 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 contributing to since 1987 and joined full-time in 1990. During his tenure, he has writte...
Michael Kimmelman on Building More Beautiful and Equitable Cities
Time Sensitive - August 07, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsMichael 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 contributing to since 1987 and joined full-time in 1990. During his tenure, he has written more th...
Illycaffè Chairman Andrea Illy on the Vast Potential of “Virtuous Agriculture”
Time Sensitive - July 31, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsAndrea 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 Massimiliano Pogliani, leads the massive global enterprise. With good reason—namely, its high-qual...
Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Time Sensitive - July 24, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsNew 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 become a mother to 40 children. Doyne’s unlikely story began in 2005, with the decision to take a ...
From New Jersey to Nepal: Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Time Sensitive - July 24, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsNew 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 become a mother to 40 children. Doyne’s unlikely story began in 2005, with the decision t...
Special Episode: Spencer Bailey Reflects on the Crash-Landing of United Airlines Flight 232
Time Sensitive - July 17, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThirty 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—exploded above the cornfields of Iowa. The spiraling debris punctured the aircraft and cut all of its h...
Google Design Guru Ivy Ross on Why Everything Is Pattern and Vibration
Time Sensitive - July 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsFew 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 and for the past three years overseeing design for its hardware division. When Ross enters a ro...
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