Artists of New York
A new podcast profiling creatives trying to make it in the art capital of the world.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 18
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Episode 135: Adam Wade - The Courage to Try (opens the original)
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Adam Wade is a storyteller and 20-time SLAM winner at The Moth, based in New York City. Instagram and all episodes (00:00) Falling in love with New York (04:18) College radio builds his confidence (07:41) Winning a talent show changes everything (10:02) Arriving in New York with almost nothing (12:47) Virgil’s Barbecue becomes his first community (16:08) Relentlessly pursuing the NBC page program (20:03) Finding community and kindness at NBC (24:21) Building a career through relationships (28:56
Episode 134: Stephen Rodes Chen - More Important Than Money (opens the original)
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Stephen Rodes Chen is a songwriter and saxophonist based in New York City. Instagram and all episodes (00:00) Moving to New York (01:54) Discovering the saxophone (06:52) Music and identity (08:57) Choosing Yale over conservatory (11:06) The strange history of the saxophone (15:28) Creating musical opportunities at Yale (18:59) Graduating into the financial crisis (20:50) Committing to music (23:02) Building Great Caesar in New York (26:02) WeWork and the hippie capitalist scene (29:00) Joining
Episode 133: Nore Davis - No Finish Line (opens the original)
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Nore Davis is a standup comedian based in New York City. Instagram and all episodes (00:00) Growing up in Yonkers (02:09) Being the funny kid (03:04) Art before comedy (04:52) Discovering stand-up at Pratt (05:59) Secretly taking a comedy class (08:06) Finding the thrill of stand-up (11:06) Making comedy financially sustainable (13:58) Building connections and community (15:32) Albums, SiriusXM, and independence (16:46) Finding material in real life (18:30) Living with sickle cell anemia (23:23)
Episode 132: Nancy Borowick - Pictures, Parents, Passage (opens the original)
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Nancy Borowick is a photographer, author, teacher and speaker based in New York City and St John in the USVI. Instagram and all episodes (00:00) Finding photography in New York (02:18) Teaching photography in Ghana (05:29) Discovering photography’s power to create change (07:41) Learning both parents had cancer (11:02) Using photography to process illness (13:35) Planning a wedding amid terminal illness (14:52) Sharing her family story publicly (17:12) Losing both parents one year apart (20:41)
Episode 131: Luke Strathman - The Creative Economist (opens the original)
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Luke Strathman is a writer, economist, comedian and poet based in New York City. Instagram and all episodes (00:00) Moving to New York before COVID (01:58) Growing up on a donkey farm (03:26) Discovering comedy by accident (05:58) Lessons from poverty research (10:25) Finding creativity at grad school (11:17) Choosing joy over the expected path (13:23) Pursuing comedy in New York (15:27) Uncertainty around a creative career (16:51) Keeping a foot in policy research (17:38) Building a varied come
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