As Asia Society’s vice president for Global Artistic Programs at the society’s 14 centers, director of the society’s museum and co-founding artistic director of its triennial, Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe has bridged East and West for more than a decade. Now she looks to continue that international outreach at the Katonah Museum of Art as its new executive director, beginning Aug. 15.
The Hudson River Museum and its director and CEO, Masha Turchinsky, seek to connect with disparate groups even as the museum enlarges its physical plant in a capital project.
For fitness professional Billy Goda, fitness is the essence of life.
Laid off from IBM at age 57, Marjorie Madfis couldn’t find the job she wanted. So she created it instead as founding executive director of Yes She Can, a nonprofit that seeks to empower young autistic women while rehabilitating secondhand American Girl dolls for purchase.
Painter Agnes Martin created a serene body of work that reflected a Zen philosophy despite – or maybe because of – the difficult circumstances she contended with in her long life.
A prominent cardiologist and distinguished scholar, academic and administrator, Alan Kadish, M.D. is a medical Renaissance man.
For opera singer turned news anchor Trish Regan, mentorship is a big part of the gig.
Nzingha Prescod is a woman of firsts. An elite foil fencer – No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 10 in the world –…
As a doctor and philanthropist, Richard Deckelbaum makes it his mission to help others. Deckelbaum has worked in classrooms, hospitals and laboratories around the…