Questions of Practice: Cliveden's Libbie Hawes on Historical Interpretation for Contemporary Audiences
Preservation director Libbie Hawes on the process of making historical sites meaningful to contemporary audiences.
Questions of Practice: Centrala's Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka on Classical Works and the Avant-Garde
Director Michał Zadara and actress Barbara Wysocka on how classical works influence contemporary theater-making.
Questions of Practice: Conductor Donald Nally and Violinist Hanna Khoury on Blending Musical Traditions
Conductor Donald Nally and violinist Hanna Khoury on how tradition influences their approach to bringing together a classical Arab chamber ensemble and a Western choir in performance.
Grantee Spotlight: Q&A with Carnatic Musician Kiranavali Vidyasankar
Carnatic musician and composer Kiranavali Vidyasankar talks with us about continuing her family's musical legacy, the role of tradition in her artistic practice, and more.
A Barbara Kasten-Inspired Disruption
2014 Pew Fellow Brent Wahl reflects on how Barbara Kasten's Construct works helped him "make some sense of the forces of the postmodern climate of the 1980s."
God Must be a Dancer
We speak to postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin about her introduction to dance, various turning points in her artistic career, and the importance of creating dance that responds to pressing social and political issues.
Transmitting Dance Across Generations: On the Making of A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78
Bill Bissell, Director of Performance, and choreographer Lucinda Childs discussed the collaborative research effort that led to the creation of the Center’s fourth danceworkbook.
Questions of Practice: Graphic Artist Marian Bantjes on Textual Embellishment
Graphic artist Marian Bantjes talks about how embellished text can provoke engagement with the reader.
Text Made Visible in the Works of Self-Taught Artists
Brooke Davis Anderson, an expert on self-taught and outsider artists, reflects on how embellished text is often found in these artists' works.
Just Say It or Think It and It Is So
Hendricks reminisced about his career beginnings and how he resisted the magnetic pull of New York after graduate school.