Beats in Space’s Crazed Caller

Tim Sweeney has been running his eclectic NYC radio show, “Beats in Space,” every Tuesday night since 1999 and has yet to miss a week. Since then, he’s captured the attention of not only music lovers and artists, but one frequent caller who identifies himself only as “Victor Washington Heights.” The anonymous caller’s messages range from Bond-villain to proud, drunken uncle, and while Sweeney admits …

Paris Photo 2014

Forgotten vintage photographs from the Russian Vkhutemas school to unusual point-of-views by Dirk Braeckman at the annual photography fair

While Paris Photo—the premier international art fair for photography—is most often associated with its placement within the stunning Grand Palais, which continually dazzles collectors and photography enthusiasts from the world over, this event is truly city-wide. With the quality of programming, the challenge of this fair is the endurance needed once swept into its charms. Amidst a stellar lecture series featuring the likes of David …

TED Prize Honors StoryCorps’ David Isay

The documentarian speaks about listening, storytelling and our shared humanity

by Laura Feinstein Since 2003, journalist, radio documentarian and MacArthur Fellow David Isay has helped bring attention to the daily and intricate lives of ordinary Americans with his groundbreaking oral history project StoryCorps. Oft-replayed on NPR, and archived at the Library of Congress, StoryCorps captures the beautiful, tragic and frequently moving conversations that make up the human experience—in the process collecting thousands of hours of …