Feminist Perspectives in Performance & Art with MICOL HEBRON - Highlights

Feminist Perspectives in Performance & Art with MICOL HEBRON - Highlights

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Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

Now I think we’re in another culture war. I think we’re in, as we see the realm of cancel culture in social media and this very polarising war between the liberal left and the conservative right. I think that we’re in another culture and a lot of it is centering around gender and race. If you look at what’s happened to black women athletes in the last couples of months, the censuring of their bodies either because of hormones in the case of Caster Semenya or Naomi Osaka, there’s a lot of ways that our society has found to police black bodies for being too exceptional in a lot of ways. For performing in exceptional ways, and the white patriarchy doesn’t like to see that because it starts to diminish their power.


MICOL HEBRON - Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

MICOL HEBRON - Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

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Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

Now I think we’re in another culture war. I think we’re in, as we see the realm of cancel culture in social media and this very polarising war between the liberal left and the conservative right. I think that we’re in another culture and a lot of it is centering around gender and race. If you look at what’s happened to black women athletes in the last couples of months, the censuring of their bodies either because of hormones in the case of Caster Semenya or Naomi Osaka, there’s a lot of ways that our society has found to police black bodies for being too exceptional in a lot of ways. For performing in exceptional ways, and the white patriarchy doesn’t like to see that because it starts to diminish their power.


Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

Merging Art, Mathematics & Technology in the World of Origami w/ ROBERT J. LANG - Highlights

Merging Art, Mathematics & Technology in the World of Origami w/ ROBERT J. LANG - Highlights

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Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

In origami design, historically people have always used their intuition. They probably started by folding traditional shapes or folding designs by others, developed an intuitive understanding of how the paper behaves and then from there they can explore that intuition to create new shapes. That was the way design worked for years and years, that was the way it worked for me, but I eventually hit a limit to what I could do with my intuition and so part of my motivation for exploring mathematical methods was to externalise some of the design process. If I could get some of the design process on paper in a meaningful way, then I could handle more complicated goals than I could just fit in my brain.

ROBERT J. LANG - Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

ROBERT J. LANG - Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

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Master Origamist, Physicist & Author

In origami design, historically people have always used their intuition. They probably started by folding traditional shapes or folding designs by others, developed an intuitive understanding of how the paper behaves and then from there they can explore that intuition to create new shapes. That was the way design worked for years and years, that was the way it worked for me, but I eventually hit a limit to what I could do with my intuition and so part of my motivation for exploring mathematical methods was to externalise some of the design process. If I could get some of the design process on paper in a meaningful way, then I could handle more complicated goals than I could just fit in my brain.

Hustle & Post Traumatic Hood Disorder w/ Poet DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ - Highlights

Hustle & Post Traumatic Hood Disorder w/ Poet DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ - Highlights

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Pushcart Award-Winning Poet

When I was younger, I never really thought of living past twenty-five…I felt like I was in a movie. I thought that I was living this movie idea of things and there’d be gunshots around you. You hear it hitting the concrete, and you’re like ‘Oh, shit’. Seriously, I didn’t think of it as real life. When you’re young, the idea that I’d known people that were killed early, you go to prison. These just felt like matter of fact. They seemed to be this part of life and you just accepted them.

DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ - Pushcart Award-Winning Poet

DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ - Pushcart Award-Winning Poet

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Pushcart Award-Winning Poet

When I was younger, I never really thought of living past twenty-five…I felt like I was in a movie. I thought that I was living this movie idea of things and there’d be gunshots around you. You hear it hitting the concrete, and you’re like ‘Oh, shit’. Seriously, I didn’t think of it as real life. When you’re young, the idea that I’d known people that were killed early, you go to prison. These just felt like matter of fact. They seemed to be this part of life and you just accepted them.

Tony Award Winner JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY on The Normal Heart, The Big C & Beyond - Highlights

Tony Award Winner JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY on The Normal Heart, The Big C & Beyond - Highlights

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Actor and Director

If you are thinking about too much, you're probably not doing it right. Some nights you do it and you're just like, that just felt like it was ten minutes long and I just was on cloud nine. What was I doing? A great, great American actor George C. Scott had a great quote once, he said, "Every actor worth their salt has one good show a week and spends those other seven shows wondering what they did that made them so good that night." And nobody knows. If you could figure that out and if you could bottle that then, of course, everybody could do it.

JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY - Tony & Obie Award-Winning Actor & Director

JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY - Tony & Obie Award-Winning Actor & Director

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Actor and Director

I've been so fortunate to work with such great actors over the years. Laura Linney, Joe Mantello and the entire company of The Normal Heart, Nathan Lane, who I consider one of my great educators. He was a real mentor to me. He was such a professional and he was so devoted to the character and worked tirelessly to make the character in the show as good as it could possibly be. Nathan never ever did it sitting down. He's always full steam ahead and there was a great lesson in that for me to watch somebody's work ethic. It taught me my work ethic.

Curating Change: ELISSA AUTHER - Avant-Garde Art, Feminism & Craft at Museum of Arts & Design - Highlights

Curating Change: ELISSA AUTHER - Avant-Garde Art, Feminism & Craft at Museum of Arts & Design - Highlights

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

ELISSA AUTHER - Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at Museum of Arts and Design

ELISSA AUTHER - Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at Museum of Arts and Design

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

JACQUES VILLEGLE: Pioneer of Street Art & New Realism - English Interview Highlights

JACQUES VILLEGLE: Pioneer of Street Art & New Realism - English Interview Highlights

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Artist & Grandfather of French Street Art

There was the war from ‘40 to ‘45 under the Fascists, so I didn’t have art training at that time. The painter Picasso, we knew the name, the artist who painted an eye in the place of a navel, that’s all I knew at the age of seventeen. I found a book published in 1926, the year of my birth, speaking of the painters Braque, Picasso and Miró. And then all the figurative painters at that time, Van Dongen…so it was a new style that I encountered there.

Full Interview · French · JACQUES VILLEGLÉ

Full Interview · French · JACQUES VILLEGLÉ

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Artist & Grandfather of French Street Art

There was the war from ‘40 to ‘45 under the Fascists, so I didn’t have art training at that time. The painter Picasso, we knew the name, the artist who painted an eye in the place of a navel, that’s all I knew at the age of seventeen. I found a book published in 1926, the year of my birth, speaking of the painters Braque, Picasso and Miró. And then all the figurative painters at that time, Van Dongen…so it was a new style that I encountered there.

Remembering PAUL AUSTER - Writer, Director (1947-2024)

Remembering PAUL AUSTER - Writer, Director (1947-2024)

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Writer · Director 1947-2024

What happens is a space is created. And maybe it’s the only space of its kind in the world in which two absolute strangers can meet each other on terms of absolute intimacy. I think this is what is at the heart of the experience and why once you become a reader that you want to repeat that experience, that very deep total communication with that invisible stranger who has written the book that you’re holding in your hands. And that’s why I think, in spite of everything, novels are not going to stop being written, no matter what the circumstances. We need stories. We’re all human beings, and it’s stories from the moment we’re able to talk.