Artist-in-Residence

Carey Perloff is a director, playwright, producer, book author and educator who served as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for 25 years (1992 to 2018). 

Carey’s career as a director in the American theater was...

Composer and performance pioneer Pamela Z is at the forefront of exploring the boundary between live and electronic performance. Her delicate, intricate, elaborate songs are accompanied by electronic sounds that are triggered by her own movements...

Art critic and historian, Hal Foster, will discuss how artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

Emily Wilson read from her upcoming translation of Homer's The Illiad.

Matthew Shipp is one of the most thoughtful, introspective and probing pianists working in the post-avantgarde-jazz world today. Known as a virtuosic improviser, Shipp's music moves subtly between musical material that he has previously composed and...

Alex Ross discussed his latest book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (2020).