When Jane Fonda Met Lily Tomlin

Alice McDermott, 70, author

There are three sorts of novels I’ve by no means taken to coronary heart: science fiction, homicide mysteries and novels about novelists. So I’ve determined to attempt my hand at every. If I fail, they’re in all probability not books I’d need to learn anyway.

Thurston Moore, 65, musician and creator

I’m placing the ultimate touches on a brand new album, “Stream Crucial Lucidity.” However after my memoir, “Sonic Life” (2023), got here out, I spotted my subsequent mission was a novella, the working title of which is “Boomerang and Parsnip.” It issues two head over heels in love youths within the wilds of Decrease Manhattan circa 1981, and it’s wholly irreal, bordering on fantasy.

Courtesy of Samuel Delany

Samuel R. Delany, 82, author

I’m writing a guidebook for a set of tarot playing cards I designed with the artist Lissanne Lake.

Susan Cianciolo, 54, visible artist

I’m making ready a solo exhibition that can open at Bridget Donahue gallery subsequent month, so I’m making new works and curating older ones. It’ll undoubtedly function a e book of my watercolor tree work, “Inform Me When You Hear My Coronary heart Cease.”

Jenny Offill, 55, author

I’m planning to begin a band known as Spacecrone. (I’ve stolen the identify from a e book of Ursula Okay. Le Guin essays.) It’ll be all feminine and 55-plus. Our faces might be made up like Ziggy Stardust, however we’ll put on wise garments and footwear. What’s stored me from beginning it’s that I can’t sing or play any devices.

Alex Eagle, 40, artistic director

We’re finessing our bag assortment, which we’re attempting to make as luxurious, but in addition as sensible, as doable. And I’m planning to jot down a cookbook with my son Jack.

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Earl Sweatshirt, 30, rapper and producer

Making extra music — it’s the one factor I at all times discover myself coming again to, although each time I do, I’ve to beat intense emotions of self-doubt. I additionally need to attempt stand-up, however I’m scared as a result of there’s no music to cover behind. I don’t need dogs-playing-poker laughs, both. You realize the [paintings] of canine enjoying playing cards? Like, “Oh, it’s a rapper doing stand-up.”

Alex Da Corte, 43, visible artist

I’ve been writing an opera for some years now based mostly on Marisol Escobar’s [assemblage] “The Social gathering” (1965-66). It’s set at a time when the solar solely shines for in the future a 12 months, and the gamers on the social gathering are all questioning easy methods to transfer ahead whereas holding on to their pasts.

Danny Kaplan, 40, designer

Whereas clay has been my trustworthy medium for years, I’ve these days been fueled to broaden the scope of my craft by embracing — and studying easy methods to push the boundaries of — new supplies like wooden, metallic and glass.

Kengo Kuma, 69, architect

Getting out of [Tokyo]. I’m doing my finest to cut back the burden on large cities — I believe humankind has reached a restrict relating to congestion — and I’ve not too long ago opened 5 satellite tv for pc workplaces in locations like Hokkaido and Okinawa.

Raul Lopez, 39, designer, Luar

The factor I’m at all times that means to restart is my video weblog “Rags to Riches: Eating With the Fabbest Bitches,” an exploration of how meals, trend, music and artwork all join.

Charles Burnett, 80, filmmaker

Proper now I’m concerned within the growth of two movies. The primary, “Edwin’s Marriage ceremony,” is the story of two cousins, separated by the Namibian armed battle with South Africa, who’re each planning their weddings. The second, “Darkish Metropolis,” additionally set in Namibia, is extra of an emotional curler coaster about betrayal and vengeance instructed within the Hitchcockian mildew.

Ludovic Nkoth, 29, visible artist

I’m seeking to experiment outdoors the confines of the canvas — sculpture and video have at all times been lingering at the back of my head.

Elena Velez, 29, designer

I need to begin a sequence of salons to carry collectively nice minds throughout a number of disciplines, whereas feeding the subculture that my work attracts from.

Daniel Clowes, 63, cartoonist

I’ve at all times had the need to do fakes of artworks I love — to determine how they have been completed, and so I may have in any other case unaffordable paintings hanging in my front room. Portray [with oil] is as irritating and exhilarating as I bear in mind it being once I was in artwork college 43 years in the past, and my work look alarmingly not in contrast to those I did at 19.

Piero Lissoni, 67, architect and designer

I’ve began the design for a number of new buildings that can turn into authorities workplaces in Budapest. I’d like to begin designing chairs, lights, skyscrapers, spacecraft. In reality, I’d like to begin doing every little thing once more.

Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Bloodbath of the Innocents” (circa 1610), Artwork Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Robert Longo, 71, visible artist

I’ve been struggling to determine how finest to make sense of the overwhelming photos within the information, so I’m turning to the previous. I’m engaged on two monumental charcoal drawings based mostly on work [about war]: Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Bloodbath of the Innocents” (circa 1610) and Francisco de Goya’s “The Third of Could 1808” (1814).

Gabriel Hendifar, 42, designer

I’m transferring into a brand new house on my own after a sequence of lengthy relationships. I’m excited to problem my very own concepts about how I need to stay and to see how that impacts the work of my design studio [Apparatus] as we start our subsequent assortment.

Donna Huanca, 43, visible artist

I’m engaged on two solo exhibitions. One might be in a late Fifteenth-century palazzo with underground vaulted rooms in Florence, Italy; the opposite in a contemporary white dice in Riga, Latvia. For years, I’ve tailor-made works to the structure of their exhibition areas, so I’m having fun with working inside this duality.

Satoshi Kuwata, 40, designer, Setchu

We’re about to begin providing footwear. I’ve considered the design. Now I simply need to go to the manufacturing unit and see them in actual life.

Aaron Aujla, 38, and Ben Bloomstein, 36, designers, Inexperienced River Challenge

We’re beginning a brand new assortment of furnishings based mostly on offcuts from the studio which can be completed with a modified piano lacquer. Hopefully, a collection of those items might be prepared for exhibition by fall. We even have a fee we’re excited to begin — a big sculptural hearth made out of three distinctive logs of uncommon wooden.

Adrianne Lenker, 32, musician, Huge Thief

I need to begin studying easy methods to paint. The few occasions I’ve tried it, I cherished it but in addition felt daunted by all I wanted to be taught. I typically consider my songs when it comes to work. My grandmother Diane Lee’s a tremendous watercolorist. Not too long ago she gave me a lesson all about grey.

Melissa Cody’s “Energy Up” (2023), courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

Melissa Cody, 41, textile artist

I’m beginning to create wall tapestries that incorporate my pre-existing designs, which have been handwoven on a conventional Navajo/Diné loom, however these new works are extremely detailed sampler compositions made on a digital Jacquard loom.

Josh Kline, 44, multidisciplinary artist

I’m working towards capturing my first function movie — a film, not a mission for the artwork world.

Sally Breer, 36, inside decorator

My husband and I’ve began constructing some constructions on a property we personal in upstate New York — he has a building firm in Los Angeles. We’re utilizing regionally sourced wooden and are 80 % completed with a studio-guesthouse, a easy 14-by-18-foot field set on basis screws, tucked right into a pine forest. That is the primary time we’re actually working collectively as a design-build crew. He’s began referring to it as our “artwork mission.”

Eddie Martinez, 47, visible artist

I’m restarting a gaggle of large-scale work for an exhibition on the Parrish Artwork Museum [in Water Mill, N.Y.] this summer time. They’re every 12 toes tall and based mostly on a drawing of a butterfly. The sequence is named “Bufly” since that’s how my son, Arthur, mispronounced “butterfly” when he was youthful. I’d put the work apart whereas I completed my work for the Venice Biennale. Now I’m locked within the studio, portray like a nut!

Karin Dreijer, a.ok.a. Fever Ray, 49, singer-songwriter

I’ve been fascinated by studying to play the drums. They’ve at all times felt like a little bit of a thriller to me.

Eric N. Mack, 36, visible artist

I’m beginning to recharge as a way to start my subsequent physique of labor. I journal, learn, discover the Criterion Channel and get deep-tissue massages. I preserve wishing I’d set up the materials in my studio.

Jenni Kayne, 41, designer

We’re beginning the subsequent iteration of the Jenni Kayne Ranch [the brand’s former property in Santa Ynez, Calif., where she’d invite guests for yoga, dining and spa experiences], solely this time we’re heading to upstate New York. We’re calling it the Jenni Kayne Farmhouse, and it’ll embody a self-care sanctuary the place gradual dwelling is a real ritual.

Christine Solar Kim, 43, multidisciplinary artist

I’ve a little bit of an opposed response to folks doing American Signal Language interpretations of well-liked songs on social media — they’re often based mostly solely on the lyrics in English, when rhyming works in another way in ASL. So I’ve been eager to make a totally native ASL “music” video. Sooner or later.

Ellia Park, 40, restaurateur

I’ve began collaborating with the in-house designer at Atomix, one of many eating places I run with my husband, Junghyun Park, on customized welcome playing cards for the friends that function bespoke paintings.

Awol Erizku, 35, visible artist

Awol Erizku’s “Pharrell, SSENSE” (2021), from “Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax” (Aperture, 2023), courtesy of the artist

I’m centered on my exhibition “Mystic Parallax,” opening in Could in Bentonville, Ark. [which will include concerts and portraits of such people as Solange and Pharrell Williams]. What I by no means appear to get round to is archiving all of my negatives within the studio.

Jeremiah Brent, 39, inside designer

As I navigate the [effect of the] ever-so-saturated inside design algorithm, I’m difficult our crew to broaden the language we communicate, diversifying design references by seeking to the sudden: playwrights, movies, historians and science.

Vincent Van Duysen, 61, architect

I’m specializing in the ninetieth anniversary of [the Italian furniture company] Molteni & C. I’m additionally enthusiastic about our current addition to the household — a black-and-tan dachshund known as Vesta after the virgin goddess of the fireside and residential.

Kwame Onwuachi, 34, chef

I’m engaged on launching a sparkling-water line — the proceeds of which is able to assist carry clear water wells to African international locations — and beginning to write my third cookbook. I begin every little thing I consider.

Larissa FastHorse, 52, playwright and choreographer

I’m adapting a beloved American musical — I can’t say which — right into a TV sequence. Which is frightening as a result of, though I simply tailored “Peter Pan” for the stage, the TV course of is the alternative: As a substitute of reducing down a three-hour musical, I’ve so as to add hours and hours of content material. So it seems like starting time and again.

Peter Halley, 70, visible artist

I’ve began to color watercolors. Now that I’ve reached 70, I assumed it was about time. The photographs are organized in a grid like on a comic book e book web page, however the narrative’s asynchronous. They’re based mostly on photos of one in every of my cells exploding, an obsession I’ve had going all the way in which again to the ’80s.

Darren Bader, 46, conceptual artist

I need to begin an artwork gallery known as Put up-Artist that recurrently exhibits artwork however refuses to call who made it. No social media presence. I additionally need to do what Concord Korine is doing, besides with none of that content material.

Jeff Tweedy, 56, musician, Wilco

I’m about to document an album of recent music with my solo band, which isn’t actually solo in any respect. I’m bringing my sons and the shut mates and quasi household who’ve been enjoying with me stay for the previous 10 years or so into the studio. I’ve written songs that really feel like they could be a vessel for all of our voices collectively: a miniature choir. There’s actually no expertise that compares to singing with different folks. I believe it tells us one thing about easy methods to be on this planet.

Charles Yu, 48, author

I’m about to begin selling the “Inside Chinatown” sequence [based on Yu’s 2020 novel]. I’d wish to get into music and repair. My son’s a drummer, and he’s woke up some latent impulse in me. And my daughter and spouse have been volunteering. I’m not precisely positive what’s been conserving me from both. I may say work, however I believe the precise reply is nothing.

Elyanna, 22, singer-songwriter

I’d love to enhance my Spanish. I go to my household in Chile at the least every year and, each time I fly again to L.A., I understand that I must preserve working towards.

Boots Riley, 53, filmmaker and musician

I’m on the point of begin filming a function I wrote a couple of group {of professional} feminine shoplifters who discover a machine known as a situational accelerator that heightens the battle of something they shoot it at. I even have a sci-fi journey: a janky, lo-fi epic area funk opera. My dream is to make use of the identical crew and shoot the 2 films again to again in Oakland, Calif. [where I live]. That’s one factor about being 53 — I would like to have the ability to spend extra time with my children.

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Sable Elyse Smith, 37, visible artist

I’ve not too long ago launched into an operatic mission. Yikes! MoMA invited me to make a sound piece that’ll open in July, and it’ll be a type of prelude to a bigger model. It’s titled “If You Unfolded Us.” It’s a queer love story and a coming-of-age story about two Black girls.

Satoshi Kondo, 39, designer, Issey Miyake

My newest experiment with washi, or conventional Japanese paper, is mixing fibers extracted from the remaining materials of previous clothes collections with the pulp combination from which washi is made. It’s a method of enjoying with shade and texture.

Laila Gohar, 35, chef and artist

Virtually all of my work has used meals as a medium and has due to this fact been ephemeral. Making work that isn’t — specifically, sculptures — is an thought I’ve been toying with for some time, however I haven’t been capable of leap into it but. I as soon as learn one thing an artist stated about how she thought male artists are extra involved with legacy than feminine artists, and that feminine artists are extra comfy creating ephemeral work. This rang true for me, however now I really feel barely extra assured about making issues that may outlive me.

Patricia Urquiola, 62, architect and designer

I used to be nominated [last year] as a member of the Royal Academy of Superb Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, so now I’m writing the acceptance thesis, or discurso de ingreso. It’s an event to replicate on concepts — for instance, I reread the thinker Bruno Latour, who argues that design “isn’t a course of that begins from scratch: To design is at all times to revamp.”

Luke Meier, 48, and Lucie Meier, 42, trend designers, Jil Sander

We’ve began making some objects — glass and ceramics. We aren’t in any respect skilled in these fields, so it’s invigorating to play once more.

Kevin Baker/Courtesy of Quantity 9 Movies.

Marianne Elliott, 57, director

I’ve at all times wished to do a movie, but it surely requires a lot time and theater is a hungry beast, so it’s eluded me till now: “The Salt Path,” starring Gillian Anderson, relies on a real story a couple of outstanding English couple [who embark on a 630-mile hike].

Samuel D. Hunter, 42, playwright

Final 12 months, I used to be approached by Joe Mantello and Laurie Metcalf, who wished somebody to jot down a play for Joe to direct and Laurie to star in. I’d by no means met both of them however, if I needed to decide one actor on earth to jot down a task for, it will be Laurie. “Little Bear Ridge Highway,” a darkish comedy about an estranged aunt and nephew who’re forcibly reunited after the passing of a troubled member of the family, will go into rehearsals in Could.

Thebe Magugu, 30, designer

Once I was 16, I started writing a novel, happening between the small South African cities of Kimberley and Kuruman, that I’ve contributed to yearly since. It presently sits as an enormous slab of a e book — round 80,000 phrases — and I’ve been that means to rewrite and polish the sooner chapters. I’ve given myself the subsequent 10 years [to finish the project]. It’ll be a present I give to myself once I flip 40.

Misha Kahn, 34, designer and sculptor

I’ve an thought for this toothpaste mission known as Zaaams that’s expanded, of its personal volition, into a whole cinematic universe. Generally an thought can develop so large that it’s unmanageable and almost unstartable. Generally I’ll actually begin engaged on it, however I get overwhelmed by the seismic rift in society it will trigger and really feel dizzy. Crest, should you’re studying this, name me.

Nell Irvin Painter, 81, visible artist and author

I’m method too outdated to be a newbie. I’m 81 and have already written and revealed one million (OK, 10) books. However a really totally different type of mission’s been tugging at me: one thing like an autobiographical Photoshop doc with layers from totally different phases of my life within the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s — spent in France, Ghana, the American South. I’d need to be myself at totally different ages.

Courtesy of Nell Irvin Painter

Sharon Van Etten, 43, singer-songwriter

In 2020, I grew to become acquainted with the work of Susan Burton, the founding father of A New Approach of Life, which offers previously incarcerated girls with the care and neighborhood they should get their lives again on observe, and was so moved by her story I requested my document label if it was OK to make use of cash from my music video price range to provide a minidocumentary on the group, “Dwelling to Me.” I nonetheless have loads to find out about filmmaking, however I believe it’s the start of one thing lovely.

Piet Oudolf, 79, backyard designer

I’m beginning the planting design for Calder Gardens, a brand new middle devoted to the work of the artist Alexander Calder in Philadelphia. I’m engaged on it with Herzog & de Meuron architects, and it’ll embody a four-season backyard that can evolve with the months. Early within the 12 months, it’s about ephemerals (bulbs). Spring is when woodland flowers are vital. Summer time would be the excessive level of the prairie-inspired areas, and in fall and winter there’ll be seed heads and skeletons. I believe a great, harmonious backyard is sort of a piece of dwelling artwork.

Rafael de Cárdenas, 49, designer

As a consummate shopper, I’ve at all times thought one of the simplest ways to carry my pursuits collectively could be with a retailer — a lab for testing issues out and making a connoisseurship within the course of. I’m considering Over Our Heads (the second iteration of Edna’s Edibles in [the 1979-88 sitcom] “The Details of Life”) meets Assume Huge! (a now-closed store in SoHo) meets [the London gallery] Anthony d’Offay meets [the defunct clothing store] Charivari meets [the old nightclub] Palladium.

Gaetano Pesce, 84, architect and designer

I’m engaged on a doable collaboration with a jewellery firm from Italy. I can’t say the identify but, however the items stand to be very modern. Additionally, one other collaboration with the fragrance firm Amouage impressed by time I spent in Oman’s Wadi Dawkah and the attractive frankincense timber there.

John Cale, 82, musician and composer

Ever since I performed viola within the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Wales, I’ve been hypnotized by the considered the self-discipline wanted to conduct. My consideration quickly wandered — from John Cage to rock music. Now, 60 years on, it’s lastly time.

Nona Hendryx, 79, interdisciplinary artist and musician

I’m engaged on the Dream Machine Expertise, a magical 3-D surroundings that’ll be stuffed with music, sound, photos and gamelike options. It’ll premiere at Lincoln Middle this June. [My idea was] to create an imaginative world impressed by Afro-Futurism that encourages a large, multigenerational viewers to share.

Faye Toogood, 47, designer and visible artist

I’d wish to develop a jewellery assortment, however I haven’t. Is it as a result of nobody’s requested — no telephone name from Tiffany! — or as a result of I’m struggling to grasp how adornment matches into our present world?

Freddie Ross Jr., a.ok.a. Huge Freedia, 46, musician

I’m recording a children’ album and publishing an image e book for early readers. A lot of my artwork is about language and the distinctive colloquialisms that now we have in bounce tradition. Youngsters reply to its snappy rhymes and phrases.

Danzy Senna, 53, author

Each time I write a novel, I believe, “That is probably the most masochistic expertise I’ve ever had — I’m going to give up this racket.” However I really feel incomplete with out this depressive object to really feel beholden to. I simply completed enhancing one e book [“Colored Television”] and have the sinking feeling I’m about to begin one other.

Jackie Sibblies Drury, 42, playwright

I’m beginning, hopefully in earnest, to jot down a play in collaboration with the director Sarah Benson impressed by motion films. We have been intrigued by the issue of attempting to place chase scenes or motion sequences onstage, the place it’s troublesome to construct momentum or suspense as a result of in theater now we have much less management over the viewer’s eye, amongst different issues. However hopefully the play might be about what it means to see ourselves in these macho cis males who typically get harm pretending to nearly die for our leisure — or one thing like that?

Lindsey Adelman, 55, designer

I’m placing collectively a digital archive of my work and ephemera — about 30 years’ price — revisiting every little thing from the sculpture I made as a pupil at RISD to the paper lights David Weeks and I bought for $25 to datebooks the place I scribbled notes about issues I needed would come true after which did. I hope it’ll encourage others to begin one thing. I would like them to grasp, “Oh, this was step one … this lovely, completed factor was impressed by a bit of rubbish dangling from a streetlamp.”

Elizabeth Diller, 69, architect, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Since 2012, when my studio was doing analysis for a recent staging of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera of Henry James’s “The Flip of the Screw,” I’ve been that means to begin a e book about ghosts. Whereas ghosts are a well-trod literary machine, their visible illustration on stage and display additionally has a wealthy historical past that may be instructed by the lens of an architect. Even if ghosts transcend the legal guidelines of physics, they’re stubbornly site-specific — they stay in partitions, closets, attics and different marginal home settings, and so they not often stray from dwelling.

David Oyelowo, 48, actor

One thing that three mates and I are within the means of constructing and creating is a streaming platform that we launched final 12 months known as Mansa. The thought — born out of rising frustration with making issues that I like after which having to make use of some type of distribution mechanism the place the choice makers are nearly at all times individuals who don’t share my demographic — is Black tradition for a worldwide viewers. Primarily, we began a tech firm that intersects with our love of story and our must create [pipelines] for folks of shade and past to be seen.

Franklin Sirmans, 55, museum director, Pérez Artwork Museum Miami

There’s a recurring exhibition that I’ve labored on with [the curator] Trevor Schoonmaker since 2006 known as “The Stunning Recreation” that consists of artwork about soccer. We do it each 4 years due to the World Cup, and I’m beginning to get into the 2026 iteration. I’ve additionally been attempting to complete a e book of poems since I graduated faculty greater than 30 years in the past. Nevertheless it’s occurring. It’s not such as you don’t write a great sentence every so often.

Jamie Nares, 70, multidisciplinary artist

I’ve at all times cherished this line of poetry [from the Irish poet John Anster’s loose translation of Goethe’s “Faust”] that goes, “No matter you are able to do, or dream you may, start it. Boldness has genius, energy and magic in it.” One factor I’ve begun not too long ago is a revisiting of my 1977 efficiency “Desirium Probe,” for which I hooked myself as much as a TV that the viewers couldn’t see, and relayed what was occurring onscreen by re-enactment. Now I’m going to do it with YouTube movies chosen at random from the wealth of garbage and fascinating stuff on there. And as a video, as a result of I’m not as agile as I as soon as was.

Joseph Dirand, 50, architect and designer

Courtesy of Joseph Dirand Structure

My agency has simply began creating, with a French firm known as Zephalto, a prototype of the interiors for a hot-air balloon that can take vacationers to the stratosphere, and the carbon footprint of the journey might be equal to that of the manufacturing of a pair of blue denims. The balloon is clear, so it’ll be nearly as should you’re going up in a bubble of air — riders will see the curve of the earth. We’re designing three non-public cabins: attractive, natural cocoons that reference the ’60s and the dream of area, however are in any other case fairly minimal. The panorama is the star of the present.

Amaarae, 29, singer-songwriter

I’m engaged on the deluxe model of my 2023 album, “Fountain Child.” The method for the unique album was very maximalist — I organized these camps everywhere in the world and had a bunch of individuals come by to work on the music. Afterward, I felt underwhelmed — not by the mission however by how I felt on the finish of all of it. [So] I stripped again every little thing so it’s simply me and my dwelling setup, attempting concepts. Earlier than, I used to be actually lofty, however now my toes are touching grass a bit of bit.

Jennifer Egan, 61, author

I’m beginning a novel set in late Nineteenth-century New York Metropolis. As at all times with my fiction, I’ve little thought of what is going to occur, which lends a component of peril to each mission! Time and place are my portal into story, and I’m eager about a time when city America was crowded and stuffed with buildings we occupy in the present day, but the panorama past appeared nearly infinite.

Carla Sozzani, 76, gallerist and retailer

Simply as my associate, Kris Ruhs, and I revamped the then-unknown Corso Como space of Milan, we’re now placing our vitality into the development of a brand new studio for him, in addition to the growth of the Fondazione Sozzani [cultural center], each of that are in Bovisa, one other outdated industrial neighborhood. I wished to be an architect once I was younger, however my father stated, “No!”

Stephanie Goto, 47, architect

If my shoppers enable me to peel one eye away from their commissions, I’d wish to dive deeper into the renovation of my very own property in Connecticut, which incorporates the circa 1770 former dwelling of Marilyn Monroe and a tobacco-and-milk barn that can home my studio.

Amalia Ulman, 35, visible artist and filmmaker

I’m starting to jot down the script for my third function movie — in all probability my favourite a part of the method, once I simply want to shut my eyes and see the movie in my head. It’s the closest to a vacation as a result of it seems like daydreaming.

Wim Wenders, 78, filmmaker

A number of years in the past, I began a mission concerning the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, who, together with others, designed the brand new Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork that’s being constructed now. The working title of the movie is “The Secret of Locations,” and it’s completed in 3-D. My dream is to make a comedy in the future. [Laughs.] Critically. [Laughs again.] I’m engaged on it.

Wendy Pink Star’s “Beaver That Stretches” (2023), © Wendy Pink Star, courtesy of the artist and Sargents Daughters

Wendy Pink Star, 43, visible artist

I’ve began highlighting Crow and Plateau girls’s artwork historical past by making painted research of parfleches, these Nineteenth-century rawhide suitcases embellished with geometric designs. I’m studying a lot about these girls simply by their mark making, however have solely come throughout just a few which have the identify of the one that made it, so I’m titling my works by pulling girls’s and ladies’ names from the census information for the Crow tribe between 1885 and 1940.

Nick Ozemba, 32, and Felicia Hung, 33, designers, In Frequent With

Subsequent month, we’re opening Quarters, an idea retailer and gathering area in TriBeCa that can function our first furnishings assortment.

Bobbi Jene Smith, 40, dancer, choreographer and actress

My husband, Or Schraiber, and I are creating a piece composed of solos for every dancer of L.A. Dance Challenge, the place we’ve been residents for the previous 12 months and a half. We’ve had the distinctive alternative to attach deeply with a few of the dancers, and this — a gratitude poem for every of them — might be our culminating mission. They’ll every be a couple of minutes lengthy and characterised by physicality set in opposition to silence.

Editor’s notice: The architect and designer Gaetano Pesce, whose feedback are included on this piece, died on April 4 at age 84.

These interviews have been edited and condensed.