Time Sensitive cover art

Time Sensitive

Time Sensitive

Written by: The Slowdown
Listen for free

About this listen

 Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm2024 The Slowdown Art Economics Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist on Art as a Portal to Liberate Time

    Hans Ulrich Obrist on Art as a Portal to Liberate Time
    Dec 17 2025
    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 of art—whose peripatetic path has taken him from a sheltered upbringing in a small Swiss village to his current post in London at the Serpentine—Obrist has been curating shows for more than three decades. During this time, he has recorded conversations with thousands of artists, architects, and others shaping culture and society. He’s also the author of dozens of books, most recently Life in Progress, released in the U.K. this fall, with the U.S. edition coming out next spring.On this episode, Obrist reflects on 25 years of the Serpentine Pavilion, which has become a defining annual moment in culture globally and a springboard for many of today’s leading voices in architecture, including Lina Ghotmeh (the guest on Ep. 129 of Time Sensitive) and Frida Escobedo, and his firm belief that we all need to embrace more promenadology—the science of a stroll—in our lives.Special thanks to our Season 12 presenting sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes:[00:47] Hans Ulrich Obrist[5:18] Brutally Early Club[7:40] Frank Gehry[8:20 ] Bettina Korek[8:28] Luma Arles[10:21] Pierre Boulez[13:10] Etel Adnan[19:37] Giorgio Vasari[21:22] Ludwig Binswanger[27:20] “Life in Progress”[37:48] Peter Fischli & David Weiss[34:00] Kasper König[39:09] Maria Lassnig[39:35] Serpentine Galleries[43:24] Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris[48:11] Serpentine Pavilion[51:15] Frida Escobedo[51:49] Lina Ghotmeh[56:11] The FLAG Art Foundation[56:37] Play Pavilion[56:58] Serpentine General Ecology[58:00] Serpentine Arts Technologies[1:02:08] “Peter Doig: House of Music”[1:04:11] “Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Delusion”[1:05:00] Édouard Glissant[1:05:47] Umberto Eco[1:12:28] Lucius Burckhardt[1:12:28] Cedric Price[1:11:56] Robert Walser
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Jennie C. Jones on Time Traveling Through Art, Sound, and Space

    Jennie C. Jones on Time Traveling Through Art, Sound, and Space
    Dec 10 2025
    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, incorporate architecture or space—through which she often elevates undersung or little-known Black artists and musicians—her practice is largely informed by minimalism and color field painting, as well as by jazz and avant-garde music. Jones currently has two exhibitions on view at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis (through Feb. 1, 2026): “A Line When Broken Begins Again,” which features a selection of new and existing paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and sound pieces, and “Other Octaves,” a group show she curated of works by artists who have been formative to her practice. She was also commissioned to create the 2025 rooftop installation at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.On this episode of Time Sensitive, she discusses what listening as a conceptual practice looks like in action, the art of putting together a playlist, and her deep love of things tactile and analog.Special thanks to our Season 12 presenting sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes: [04:35] “Jennie C. Jones: A Line When Broken Begins Again” (2025)[04:35] “Other Octaves” (2025)[04:57] Carmen Herrera[04:57] Agnes Martin[04:57] Martin Puryear[04:57] Alma Thomas[04:57] Mildred Thompson[05:21] A Free and Shifting Tonal Center (2024)[7:26] Ellsworth Kelly[11:44] Fred Moten[11:44] “Dynamics” (2022)[13:02] Trisha Brown’s “Leaning Duets” (1970)[14:40] Tadao Ando[14:55] “These (Mournful) Shores” (2020)[17:21] Moses Williams[17:21] Louis Dotson[18:20] Richard Tuttle[30:25] Olly Wilson[31:28] Maryanne Amacher[31:28] Arthur Russell[37:10] Jennie C. Jones: Compilation (2015)[38:30] “The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism” (1993)[42:25] “Slow Birds” (2004) [42:25] "Slowly in a Silent Way, Caged” (2010)[42:25] Charlie Parker[1:09:47] “Jennie C. Jones: RPM (revolutions per minute)” (2018)[1:12:06] “Ensemble” (2025)
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Noah Horowitz on Art Basel as a Cultural Force

    Noah Horowitz on Art Basel as a Cultural Force
    Dec 3 2025

    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, beginning with its tight-knit origins in Basel, Switzerland, in 1970, Art Basel has evolved into an international juggernaut, with best-in-class fairs also in Miami Beach, Hong Kong, and Paris—and soon, under Horowitz’s leadership, Qatar, with an edition debuting there in February 2026. With more than two decades of experience, and as a tireless advocate and enthusiast for all things art, from artists and galleries to collectors and institutions, Horowitz is exactly the right person for the job.

    On this episode of Time Sensitive, Horowitz details his ambitious agenda to stretch Art Basel’s reach into realms far beyond what would traditionally be considered the art world; shares his long-view perspective on the economics of art; and considers the centuries-old history that, in a roundabout way, helped lead to—and continues to inform and shape—today’s art market.

    Show notes:

    [05:13] Art Basel Paris

    [05:13] Art Basel Qatar

    [05:13] Art Basel Miami Beach

    [05:13] Art Basel Hong Kong

    [07:54] Frida Escobedo

    [10:41] The Art Basel and UBS 2025 Survey of Global Collecting

    [10:41] Art Basel Awards

    [21:27] Rei Naito

    [23:51] Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market (2011)

    [27:42] Rirkrit Tiravanija

    [41:18] High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art (2020)

    [32:42] KAWS

    [39:04] Princeton Record Exchange

    [42:18] Frieze

    [42:52] Hans Ulrich Obrist

    [42:52] Okwui Enwezor

    [45:00] Rem Koolhaas

    [45:57] Kirk Varnedoe

    [45:57] Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (2006)

    [50:05] Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art (2005)

    [51:49] Clare McAndrew

    [54:42] The Experience Economy (2019)

    [58:43] Vincenzo de Bellis

    [1:03:04] Pérez Art Museum
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 12 mins
No reviews yet