The Rabkin Interviews

Nicole Martinez is an arts journalist and the deputy director of Fountainhead Arts in Miami. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize, and you can read her full bio on our website . We invited Nicole to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Nicole in her home office in Miami. The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity. M...

Eva Recinos is an arts and culture journalist, educator, and creative nonfiction writer based in Los Angeles. Her essay collection, Underneath the Palm Trees , is forthcoming in 2027 from Northwestern University Press. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website . We invited Eva to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly comm...

Brandy McDonnell is an award-winning journalist, a lifelong Oklahoman, and a features writer for The Oklahoman and Oklahoman.com . She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. Find her full bio on our website . We invited Brandy to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Brandy in her home office in Lindsay, near where she grew up. The interv...

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is an arts writer, visual artist, independent curator, and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website . We invited America to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of America in the backyard space where she sometimes...

Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a publishing platform and archival project focusing on the Midwest. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website . We invited Tempestt to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Tempestt in her Chicago living room, where s...

J Wortham is a sound healer, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, author of a forthcoming nonfiction collection “Work of Body,” and a 2025 Rabkin Prize winner. You can read their full bio at our website . We invited J to have a conversation about their work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of J in their home office in New York featuring an art piece by Alis...

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation) is an author, essayist, and curator, and until recently a longtime curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He is returning to arts writing and working on an anthology of essays. He is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read his full bio at our website . We invited Paul to have a conversation about his work. The interview is accomp...

Jessica Lynne is a writer, art critic, podcaster, editor, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism that centers Black perspectives while engaging the contemporary art world. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website . We invited Jessica to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Jess...

Cassie Packard is a freelance writer and reviews editor at frieze magazine who is particularly interested in worldbuilding practices and networks, with queerness as a frame and focus. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louis...

Thomas Lawson is an artist, educator and writer. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Thomas. It has been gently edited...

Siddhartha Mitter is a freelance writer and critic. He is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive dire...

Emily Watlington is a critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Our new Executive Director, Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journ...

Greg Allen is an artist and writer who began greg.org: the making of art blog in 2001. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation...

Holland Cotter is the chief art critic and a senior writer at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for criticism. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new ex...

Robin Givhan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and senior critic-at-large for The Washington Post. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime j...

TK Smith is an arts writer, cultural historian, and the newly appointed curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. He is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with...

Welcome to The Rabkin Interviews. In this episode we preview a series of conversations between the eight winners of the 2024 Rabkin Prize and Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the new executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. Mentioned in this episode: The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz (Random House, 1996) Kevin J. Miyazaki Carolina Miranda AX Mina rashid shabazz András Szántó This proj...