Julie Salamon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with editor and author Adam Moss. Adam was the editor of New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days. As editor of New York, he also oversaw the creation of five digital magazines: Vulture, The Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. Throughout his forty-year career, Moss has been drawn to origin stories— how a cultural moment or a piece of art came to be. It is a question that animates his beautiful and mind-expanding book THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes from Nothing an illuminating exploration of the rigorous, complex, personal, and elusive work of making art.
Upon retiring from New York magazine he thew himself into his hobby of painting driving him to reckon with the artistic process. Adam set about interviewing a diverse collection of artists from many different mediums to better understand how artists think and look at the world, in the hopes that it could provide useful tools for other creatives. The process of writing and creating The Work of Art taught Adam not only more about his own creative process, but reintroduced him to his writers voice. Upon completion, the book revealed itself to be about failure and perseverance. An artists ability to fail and keep going was the story behind all creative works.
