What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
In the first segment of a three-part conversation between Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon and Center Executive Director Paula Marincola, they discuss Gordon's role as a conduit between the Center and its grantees.
Tacita Dean speaks about time's myriad forms, from the geological and the celestial to the biological or the structural.
Tacita Dean shares her thoughts about the making of her film JG in advance of its international debut at Arcadia University Art Gallery.
Ain Gordon, the Center's 2011–13 Visiting Artist, spoke with choreographer and director Merián Soto about her Center-supported piece, *SoMoS*.
Jenny Sabin writes about designing a "Greenhouse for the Future," part of the American Philosophical Society's Center-funded Greenhouse Projects.
Campuzano, a visual artist and 2009 Pew Fellow, spent an entire night in the Center office, with only the staff's belongings for company. He used the experience as inspiration for a new set of drawings.
Isaac, a 2011 Pew Fellow in dance and choreography, peppered the walls of the Center with blank pages for writing and sharing ideas, in an evolving project called "The Notebook."
The second article in the American Impresario series features Harrington, founder and artistic director of the Kronos Quartet. Through almost four decades of work, Harrington has had a major impact on contemporary music.
In 2011, playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith spoke at a Center-hosted event about the evolution of her one-woman show.
In 2011, the Center convened a round-table discussion with MoMA's Pablo Helguera and the New Museum's Eungie Joo to discuss the evolving state of museum education.