Will Corwin
Karen Holmberg: Archaeology in an Emergency
In Part Two of this two-part conversation, Karen Holmberg discusses the seemingly intractable problem of convincing people that they are in danger, or helping them to see that the world is changing around them and encouraging them to mitigate, or prepare for, those changes.
Karen Holmberg: Archaeology in an Emergency
In Part One of this two-part conversation, Will Corwin and Karen Holmberg discuss her fascination with volcanoes, her discovery of mysterious “spider vulva” petroglyphs, and consider whether these images can still speak to us.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie: Ancient & Unexpected Neighbors
The conversation touches on the evolutionary uses of creativity, raising problematic questions about why we are creative: is it only to get ahead and create more viable offspring, or is there something more?
Tattfoo Tan: Designing Rituals
Will Corwin sat down with Tattfoo Tan to discuss tactics of creating audience engagement and participation, social practice, and the spiritual side of art.
Joyce Pensato
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Will Corwin “hangs out” with the many and varied inhabitants of Joyceland.
We Were Creative Before We Were Human
Freshly back from excavating in the Afar desert of northeast Ethiopia, Yonas Beyene PhD sat down in his Addis Ababa office to discuss the origins of human creativity.
Gender and Artistic Practice in the Ice Age
Keeper of antiquities and curator of the blockbuster 2013 exhibition “Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind,” Jill Cook explains the idea of spiritual landscapes, the surreal continuity between ancient and modern artistic practice, and gender equality in the Paleolithic.
Jane Dickson and Times Square
Will Corwin interviews Jane Dickson about the late 70s and 80s punk art scene, Colab, the first electronic billboard, and New Year’s Eve in NYC.
Luftmensch
The New York Public Library’s “Curator of Public Curiosity” on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question.
Colin Renfrew: Where Are We Going?
An archaeologist at the University of Cambridge known to ask big-picture questions, such as “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?,” answers some of ours.