Thought Leadership | Arts, Culture & Sports

From stability to sense of mission, the public sector career path offers unique benefits that are drawing top talent from the private sector.

Bice Curiger is the most famous art historian in Switzerland. In conversation with Egon Zehnder she talks about boring conventions and describes how the seemingly familiar can inspire with a fresh look to the new.

Every summer, the city of Salzburg with its 150,000 inhabitants becomes an international hotspot. The Salzburg Festival is an event that highlights the utmost in artistic performance. Over 200 concerts, operas and plays take place. Having to draw up a schedule like this every year, market it, find sponsors and manage the entire event is a feat of strength and act of love which attorney Helga Rabl-Stadler has managed with finesse for over 20 years. The president of the Salzburg Festival has a gift for making this annual summit of artists, executives, leading politicians, academics and fans of classical music into an epicenter of the remarkable.

Renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor speaks with Google executive Nikesh Arora about the alchemy of antagonistic forces in the creative process.

In an exclusive interview with Joseph W. Polisi, President of the prestigious Juilliard School, discusses finding outstanding artistic talent – and how to help it unfold.

Alexander Ljung and Ólafur Elíasson met up at Elíasson’s studio in Berlin. The artist has converted a former brewery into an impressive base for his creative work – a mixture of workshop and laboratory in which his large-format technically and artistically demanding objects and installations take shape.