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Time Sensitive

The Slowdown

Time Sensitive

The Slowdown

Candid, revealing long-form conversations with extraordinary people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time—and how pivotal moments have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

Jun 24

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Dries Van Noten on the Meaning Found in Making

Dries Van Noten’s lifelong fascination with craft and making runs deep. He grew up in a multigenerational family of retailers and tailors in Antwerp, and in the 1980s, he was part of the famed avant-garde Antwerp Six group of Belgian fashion designers. Fro...

Dries Van Noten on the Meaning Found in Making

Jun 17

Felix Burrichter on Print’s Enduring Power in the Algorithmic Age

Through PIN–UP, the German-born, New York–based editor, curator, and founder Felix Burrichter continues to expand the possibilities of what an architecture magazine can be. He constructs intuitive bridges between creative sectors—whether art, design, and m...

Felix Burrichter on Print’s Enduring Power in the Algorithmic Age

Jun 10

AI Ready

Maria Popova on the Role of Chance in Shaping Our Lives

Through her multifaceted work, the Bulgarian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, reader, and researcher Maria Popova, founder of the “free, ad-free, A.I.-free, fully human” website and newsletter The Marginalian, braids together literature, science, philosophy, p...

Maria Popova on the Role of Chance in Shaping Our Lives

May 27

Sheila Hicks on Life as a Series of Portals

For our latest “site-specific” episode of Time Sensitive, Spencer meets Sheila Hicks inside her courtyard in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, where she has called home for more than 60 years. The 91-year-old Nebraska-born artist—widely known fo...

Sheila Hicks on Life as a Series of Portals

May 13

Valerie June on Joy as a Form of Resistance

The singer-songwriter Valerie June has a gift for writing contemporary songs that feel timeless and as though they could also have existed at various points across the past century. Her expansive layering of Appalachian folk, Delta blues, gospel, soul, ear...

Valerie June on Joy as a Form of Resistance

May 06

George Saunders on the Power of Fiction to Enliven the World

The novelist, essayist, and short-story writer George Saunders—widely celebrated for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Man Booker Prize, and book of short stories Tenth of December (2013)—has made it his mission to “de-dullify” the world...

George Saunders on the Power of Fiction to Enliven the World

Apr 22

Alma Allen on Connecting to the Primordial Through Art

There’s an animate quality to the biomorphic sculptures of the self-taught, Utah-born artist Alma Allen. His works, carved from wood, marble, and bronze—and informed by his deep appreciation for the natural world—appear as if they’re living, breathing thin...

Alma Allen on Connecting to the Primordial Through Art

Apr 08

Devon Turnbull on Elevating the Beauty of Sound

To be in a room with one of the artist and audiophile Devon Turnbull’s texture-rich Ojas hi-fi audio systems may be the closest one can get to being in the studio with the musicians themselves. It’s not a stretch to call what he creates “sound sculptures”:...

Devon Turnbull on Elevating the Beauty of Sound

Mar 25

Shohei Shigematsu on Why “Memorable Space” Matters

According to the Japanese-born, New York–based architect Shohei Shigematsu, there’s such a thing as a building being too refined. What matters most, in his view, is creating what he calls “memorable space”: the antithesis of anything lifeless or lacking a ...

Shohei Shigematsu on Why “Memorable Space” Matters

Mar 11

Lucinda Childs on the Dance of Everyday Life

Over six decades and counting, the postmodern choreographer and dancer Lucinda Childs has built an exceptional, category-defining body of work grounded in a style that draws as much from “pedestrian,” everyday movements as it does from her foundational bal...

Lucinda Childs on the Dance of Everyday Life

Mar 04

Introducing Time Sensitive

Time Sensitive is a podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form conversations with extraordinary people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time—and how pivotal moments ...

Introducing Time Sensitive

2025/12/17

Hans Ulrich Obrist on Art as a Portal to Liberate Time

The Swiss-born, London-based curator, art historian, and Serpentine Galleries artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist moves through his life and work with a deep internal sense of urgency. Among the most prolific and everywhere-all-at-once people in the world...

Hans Ulrich Obrist on Art as a Portal to Liberate Time

2025/12/10

Jennie C. Jones on Time Traveling Through Art, Sound, and Space

When the artist Jennie C. Jones listens closely to a piece of music, she’s particularly attuned to its pauses, in-between moments, and breaks. Widely celebrated for her abstract works in painting, sculpture, and sound art that, in many instances, incorpora...

Jennie C. Jones on Time Traveling Through Art, Sound, and Space

2025/12/03

Noah Horowitz on Art Basel as a Cultural Force

As the CEO of Art Basel, Noah Horowitz has made it his mission to ensure that the international art platform is seen, valued, and experienced—far beyond its art-fair roots—as a cultural catalyst and “opportunity accelerator.” Over the past 55 years, beginn...

Noah Horowitz on Art Basel as a Cultural Force

2025/11/19

Theaster Gates on Building and Bridging Culture, From Chicago to Japan

Over the past two decades, the artist Theaster Gates has poured himself into his multifaceted practice that spans pottery, painting, sculpture, urban development, performance, archival research, and arts administration. Along the way, he has risen to becom...

Theaster Gates on Building and Bridging Culture, From Chicago to Japan

2025/11/12

Jay Osgerby on Imbuing Objects With Meaning

The British designer Jay Osgerby believes in designing rigorously simple objects that are deeply felt and, hopefully, appreciated for generations to come. As the co-founder of the London-based industrial studio Barber Osgerby, Jay and his partner in the fi...

Jay Osgerby on Imbuing Objects With Meaning

2025/11/05

Michael W. Twitty on Honoring His Ancestors Through Food

For the James Beard Award–winning writer and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty, kitchens provide a multitude of significant purposes that stretch far into the past and carry through to the present. Beyond being places where people cook, share, and eat f...

Michael W. Twitty on Honoring His Ancestors Through Food

2025/10/29

Camille Henrot on Tapping Into a Boundless Imagination

For the Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot, time practically never stands still. Across her work in film, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation—and soon, live performance—Henrot has developed ways of stretching and distorting time, seaml...

Camille Henrot on Tapping Into a Boundless Imagination

2025/10/22

Alison Roman on Recipes as Time Capsules

The cook and food writer Alison Roman frequently emanates and celebrates a certain spilled-milk imperfectionism. Her on-camera candor and laid-back cooking style have both contributed to growing her devoted audience of home cooks as well as the food-curiou...

Alison Roman on Recipes as Time Capsules

2025/10/08

Olivia Laing on the Pleasures and Possibilities of Gardens

For the British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing, restoring and tending to their backyard garden has prompted complex questions of power, community, and mystery, concepts that they beautifully excavate in their latest book, the fascinating and mind-...

Olivia Laing on the Pleasures and Possibilities of Gardens