Robin Pogrebin

Robin Pogrebin appears in the following:

Reexamining Blockbuster Art Exhibits

Friday, June 03, 2022

We discuss what's different about the way artists in the canon are being considered by exhibitions in 2022 with culture reporter Robin Pogrebin.

Comment

The State of the Art World

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

We discuss what's different about the way artists in the canon are being considered by exhibitions in 2022 with culture reporter Robin Pogrebin.

Comment

Sackler Name Being Removed From The Met

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

'New York Times' reporter Robin Pogrebin joins us to discuss the removal of the Sackler name from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Comments [2]

New Allegations About The New Museum

Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Former and current workers say the museum's success has come at a high cost. 

Comment

The Making of Brett Kavanaugh

Thursday, October 10, 2019

This week marks the one-year anniversary of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice. 

Museums Face Unionization and a Resignation

Monday, July 29, 2019

NY Times reporter Robin Pogrebin discusses the museum workers' push to unionize and the implications of Warren Kanders's resignation from the board of trustees of The Whitney Museum.

Comments [3]

Money and Art (But Whose Money?)

Friday, December 07, 2018

A board member at the Whitney Museum and his ties to the recent clash at the U.S.-Mexico border raise questions about the role of money, donors and funding for the arts.

Comments [1]

Meet Jaap: A New Conductor Takes the Baton

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Jaap van Zweden makes his debut as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic this week.

Comments [4]

Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall Renaming Comes at a Price

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The performance space needs renovations and a donor to fund it — but who will become its new namesake? 

Comments [1]

Enrapturing Audiences with the Music of Carole King

Thursday, September 18, 2014

WNYC
 With eight shows a week, the Tony Award winning star of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, is working on keeping it fresh.

Comment

MoMA Knocks Down Its Next-Door Neighbor

Friday, January 17, 2014

Last May, we reported on a story in which it seemed David had triumphed over Goliath. David was a quirky, acclaimed jewel box of a building in midtown Manhattan — the former Americ...

Comments [15]

Music In Museums: The Next Big Thing

Monday, April 08, 2013

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the art scene in New York, you may have noticed that there’s a lot of music in the city’s museums. New York Times culture reporter Robin Pogrebin tells us how institutions like The Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Museum are filling their galleries with the sound of music.

Comment

2012 Whitney Biennial: Preview

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Whitney Biennial, one of New York's (and contemporary art’s) defining cultural events, opens tomorrow. The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin joins us for a preview of the popular exhibition – which this year has turned over an entire floor, or 6,000 square feet, to music, theater and dance.

Comments [4]

Museums on the Move

Friday, May 13, 2011

New York Times cultural reporter Robin Pogrebin discusses the plans for MOMA to take over the midtown Folk Art Museum space and for the Met to take over the Whitney's Madison Ave building.  

Comments [5]

Pay Cuts for Top Talent

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

In the last 18 months, most top executives of nonprofit arts institutions throughout the country have frozen or cut their salaries, according to a recent survey. We'll look at the changing market for arts executives with reporter Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times and Sarah James, a recruiter for ...

Comments [22]

All Work and No Play - But High Pay

Thursday, November 05, 2009

The stagehands that push the pianos onto the stage at Carnegie Hall make more than the musicians who play them. Bloomberg News recently revealed that the top stagehands there earn $500,000 a year. Reporter Philip Boroff tells us about this specialized corner of the music industry.

City Opera Launches a ...

Comments [9]

Inside Performing Arts High Schools

Friday, September 25, 2009

Nearly 30 years after the 1980 movie "Fame," an updated remake debuts today. Like the original and the TV series it spawned, "Fame" dramatizes life in the halls and rehearsal rooms of an urban performing-arts high school. Today, we hear about real-life arts education in New York City from Robin ...

Comments [10]

Obama's Culture Team

Thursday, June 18, 2009

President Obama’s nominees to the nation's arts and humanities endowments are either safe and predictable -- or a major shake-up. We hear different reactions from reporter Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times and David A. Smith, a senior lecturer in American history at Baylor University and the author of ...

Comments [1]

The Culture of Change: Stimulus, Then and Now

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Politicians can't agree on how much, if any, of the economic stimulus package should go to the arts. But controversy is nothing new when it comes to funding culture. As part of our series "The Culture of Change: The First 100 Days," we find look at past and present plans ...

Comments [33]

Arts on the Campaign Trail

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea drew heaps of media attention and sparked debate about the role of arts in politics. But the issue of arts funding hasn't been debated much by the Republican and Democratic candidates. We find out where they stand on the arts from Robin ...

Comments [2]