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Taking the long view.

08/13/2024

Celebrating five years! Here, from Ep. 64, senior curator of architecture and design on time.

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05/01/2024

Five years! Last night, we celebrated our anniversary with an intimate dinner at , co-hosted by and chef , that brought together more than 20 former guests of our podcast—including , , , .fernandez, , and —along with other culture-forward leaders. “You know how The New York Times Book Review has that ‘By the Book’ column in which they always ask an author about who they’d invite to their dream dinner party?” Bailey said during the champagne toast. “This is that dream dinner party!”

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04/29/2024

Most widely recognized for his paintings that rigorously combine spray paint, stenciled geometric forms, and brushstrokes, the Brooklyn-based artist .adam is also known for his “Black Dada” framework, an ever-evolving philosophy that investigates various relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. “‘Black Dada’ is a contrapuntal space,” he says on the latest episode of Time Sensitive. “It is about the way in which things exist in relationship to each other—historical, aesthetic, theoretical. It’s Amiri Baraka and Jean-Luc Godard. It’s Joan Retallack and Gertrude Stein. It’s Pope. L and Joan Jonas.”

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04/26/2024

Time Sensitive Ep. 110 with .adam 🕚

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01/03/2024

Time Sensitive Ep. 105 with 🕚

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12/29/2023

This year on our podcast, we recorded 20 episodes across two seasons, most recently a conversation with the writer and curator Helen Molesworth (), which came out last week. It’s always interesting to look at our analytics and see which episodes are resonating the most with our listeners. These were our top 10 most-downloaded:
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1. Jelani Cobb ) on 50 Years of Hip-Hop and the Future of Journalism
2. on Designing With Longevity in Mind
3. on Pottery, Poetry, and the Act of Letting Go
4. on Art as a Means of Working Through Grief and Trauma
5. Anders Byriel () on Redefining the Idea of “Company Culture”
6. on Photography as a Way of Marking Time Across Generations
7. on Consistently Capturing the Zeitgeist
8. on Finding Clarity and Connection Through Listening
9. on the Healing Power of Fiction
10. Mira Nakashima on Keeping Her Father’s Woodworking Legacy Alive
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Other Time Sensitive milestones this year: We recorded our first two out-of-studio episodes—one with at the , the other with Mira Nakashima at her family’s woodworking compound in New Hope, Pennsylvania—and also conducted our first-ever live taping of the podcast in front of an audience. (Featuring the chef , the live episode was recorded at , which is part of Bottura’s nonprofit. It will be released in March as the kick-off to Season 9.)
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You can find all of the episodes at timesensitive.fm or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening! 🙏

12/21/2023

Last week, we recorded the first-ever live taping of our podcast in front of an audience. joined the chef on stage at , part of Bottura’s nonprofit, where the two discussed, among other things, “Slow Food Fast Cars” (), Bottura and his wife, ’s, new recipe-slash-interiors book; the Modena, Italy, art of aging balsamic vinegar; and how Bottura thinks about the role of time both literally and philosophically, in and out of the kitchen. Stay tuned for the episode’s release in March next year—the kick-off to Season 9.
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12/20/2023

Curator Helen Molesworth (), author of the new book “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art” (), discusses her lifelong engagement with the work of Marcel Duchamp; the transformative power of a great conversation; and the personal and professional freedom she has found in recent years as a roving, independent voice in the art world.

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12/18/2023

Time Sensitive Ep. 104 with 🕚

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