After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (2024) illuminates the fascinating story behind one of our nation’s cultural treasures. The Isabella Stewart […]

An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (2024) illuminates the fascinating story behind one of our nation’s cultural treasures. The Isabella Stewart […]

After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

Rachel L. Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University, who writes about race and race relations for The New York Times. Her articles […]

Rachel L. Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University, who writes about race and race relations for The New York Times. Her articles […]

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from […]

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from […]

After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

Generations of authors, performers, and artists have been drawn to Edith Wharton’s writing as a source of inspiration. New to our 2024 programming lineup, this series of talks explores exciting […]

Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books, including his Pulitzer Prize winning, King: A Life (2023), which The New York Times hailed as the “definitive” biography of Martin […]

Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books, including his Pulitzer Prize winning, King: A Life (2023), which The New York Times hailed as the “definitive” biography of Martin […]

Generations of authors, performers, and artists have been drawn to Edith Wharton’s writing as a source of inspiration. New to our 2024 programming lineup, this series of talks explores exciting […]

After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Safiya Sinclair is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, How to Say Babylon (2023), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award […]

Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Safiya Sinclair is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, How to Say Babylon (2023), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award […]

After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden […]

They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden […]

Edith Wharton had a keen interest in design. First chronicled in The Decoration of Houses and subsequently illustrated in the rich descriptions interwoven throughout her novels, Wharton’s influence is commemorated […]

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and the author of twelve acclaimed books of literary nonfiction. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons (2023) explores the lives of Sara Delano, mother […]

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and the author of twelve acclaimed books of literary nonfiction. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons (2023) explores the lives of Sara Delano, mother […]

Brenda Wineapple is the author of seven books. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation (2024) brings to life the dramatic story of the Scopes […]

Brenda Wineapple is the author of seven books. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation (2024) brings to life the dramatic story of the Scopes […]

After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with […]

Edith Wharton had a keen interest in design. First chronicled in The Decoration of Houses and subsequently illustrated in the rich descriptions interwoven throughout her novels, Wharton’s influence is commemorated […]

Generations of authors, performers, and artists have been drawn to Edith Wharton’s writing as a source of inspiration. New to our 2024 programming lineup, this series of talks explores exciting […]

Edith Wharton had a keen interest in design. First chronicled in The Decoration of Houses and subsequently illustrated in the rich descriptions interwoven throughout her novels, Wharton’s influence is commemorated […]