How can history and traditions be reimagined for today’s audiences?
Yannick Nézet-Séguin discusses the value that centuries-old works can offer contemporary listeners and how an orchestra can present a classical piece so that it remains dynamic and resists becoming a “statue.”
Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses his interest in dolls as representations of identity and culture, and we hear from Barbara Whiteman, founder and executive director of the Doll Museum, as well as Aida Villanueva, a member of Temple Contemporary’s Young Curators Council.
Choreographer Reggie Wilson discusses his approach to choreographing and curating dance in religious spaces with Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher.
Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson and media scholar Amy Beste consider why women artists have often only received serious recognition later in their lives and careers.
Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.
Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.
Pew Fellows and poets Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson visited the Center for an extended conversation, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.
Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.
In conjunction with the recent Center-funded retrospective, Trisha Brown: In the New Body, we invited author and art critic Douglas Crimp and MoMA PS1's Peter Eleey to reflect on Brown's influential choreographic practice.
Richard Torchia and Catherine Morris consider visual artist Pati Hill's contemporaneity, the creative influence of emerging technologies, and Hill's place in contemporary and conceptual art.