The Art Career
The Art Career is a space breaking barriers by letting you sit in on candid, straightforward conversations with leaders in visual arts, writing, music, theater and film.
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Inside 92Y (opens the original)
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For more than 150 years, 92NY has been a gathering place for artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, and audiences in New York City and beyond. In this episode of The Art Career , Emily McElwreath sits down with Seth Pinsky, CEO of 92NY , to explore what it means to lead one of New York City’s most enduring cultural institutions—and how an organization with such a significant history continues to evolve. Their conversation moves through the role cultural institutions play in the life of a city, t
Jerry Saltz at NYU: Art, Criticism & the Creative Life (opens the original)
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For The Art Career’s New York season, we return to a conversation with one of the city’s most recognizable voices on art and culture: Jerry Saltz. Recorded live at New York University in March 2023, Emily McElwreath sits down with the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic and longtime senior art critic for New York Magazine for a wide-ranging conversation about art, criticism, ambition, failure, success, and what it takes to sustain a creative life. Saltz has spent decades looking at, writing about,
The Juilliard School: Inside the Dance Division with Melissa Toogood (opens the original)
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Episode 3 of The Art Career’s New York season goes inside one of the world’s most influential training grounds for artists: The Juilliard School. What does it mean to train the next generation of dancers at a moment when the field—and the possibilities of a life in dance—continue to evolve? Melissa Toogood is the Dean and Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division, as well as an acclaimed dancer, educator, and former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her career has moved between performa
ArtBridge NYC: Transforming Public Space (opens the original)
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Episode Two of The Art Career’s New York season shows you how can public art transform an entire neighborhood — and what happens when artists become part of the everyday lives of the communities around them? Stephen Pierson is the Executive Director of ArtBridge , a nonprofit organization that transforms construction fencing, scaffolding, and underutilized urban spaces into large-scale public art. Joining the conversation are artists Kat Lam and Blanka Amezkua , whose public installations explor
Shanta Thake: Inside Lincoln Center (opens the original)
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Episode One of The Art Career's New York season begins at the top: Lincoln Center. What does it take to lead the artistic vision of the world's most iconic performing arts institution — and why does she believe the arts are one of the only tools we have left to truly see one another? Shanta Thake is the Chief Artistic Officer of Lincoln Center, where she shapes the artistic direction of one of the great cultural institutions in the world. Before Lincoln Center, she spent more than a decade at Th
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