On April 20th, 2024, the newly inducted National Academician, architect Richard Gluckman, led a group on a walking tour through several of his building projects in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. This tour, titled Sense of Permanence, accompanied the National Academy’s exhibition Sites of Impermanence, which closed in May 2024. Co-curated by Sara Reisman, Chief Curator, and Natalia Viera Salgado, Associate Curator, it featured the work of the eight Class of 2023 Inductees, including Gluckman: Alice Adams, Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, Torkwase Dyson, Carlos Jiménez, Mel Kendrick, and Sarah Oppenheimer.

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This episode of Exquisite Corpse brings together National Academicians and painters Elena Sisto and Carroll Dunham in a deep discussion about painting, abstraction, and the trajectories of their work.

Both painters are interested in the abstracted figure and their exchange explores the influences of childhood, freedom and risk in the studio, and mimesis versus non-objective painting. They share an investment in the expansive nature of abstraction through invention and revel in their commonalities as artists and most importantly as painters. 

In this episode of Exquisite Corpse, architects Wendy Evans Joseph and Billie Tsien discuss the art-centered roots of their friendship and the experiential nature of architecture. They discuss what it means to alter or create an experience and how they practice patience with projects in the public realm. 

They touch on their various projects that alter how the public engages with an environment, such as Wendy’s back-of-house glass box for the Music Hall at Snug Harbor Cultural Center or Billie’s project for David Geffen Hall, at the Lincoln Center where her firm restructured the lobby to be more inviting and multifunctional. Both invested in community engagement, they share a mutual admiration for producing projects that deepen public connection.