All Of It with Alison Stewart

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum explores the effects of the Great Migration on the sociopolitical makeup of the United States. The show is called, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, and is on display through June 25. Kimberli Gant, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, joins us to talk about the exhibition alongside Joshua Guild, associate professor of history and African American studies at Princeton Univer.

The new season of the musical theater-mashup series "Schmigadoon" premieres today and features Oscar-winning, BAFTA-winning, and Tony-nominated performer Ariana DeBose in the role of Emcee. On Saturday, Debose will perform her own musical mash-up of songs by Dionne Warwick, Stephen Sondheim, ABBA, and more as part of her original solo concert, titled "Authenticity," debuting the Lincoln Center series, "American Songbook: A Place You Belong." DeBose joins us to preview the show and discuss her career.

We've all seen the news reports: Spotify, Vox, Meta...layoffs are happening everywhere. If you've been laid off or if layoffs are looming at your company, we'll speak to career coach Rob Barnett about how to get back on your feet professionally, as well as get advice for how to manage your money in the meantime with Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, aka The Money Coach.

Running through the month of April, Lincoln Center's "American Songbook: A Place You Belong" concert series celebrates four historic NYC music institutions of yesteryear: the Savoy Ballroom, Palladium Ballroom, Cafe Society, and Paradise Garage. Lincoln Center chief artistic officer Shanta Thake and George C. Wolfe, the writer and director who helped conceive the series, join us to preview.

Author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link is widely considered to be one of the masters of the modern American short story. Her new collection, White Cat, Black Dog, takes seven traditional fairytales and updates them for the modern age, from Snow White to Hansel and Gretel. Link joins us to discuss the collection ahead of her in-person event at Greenlight Bookstore at 7:30 pm.

A new Hulu series imagines what might have happened to acclaimed author and memoirist Cheryl Strayed if she had never made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (made famous by her book Wild). Liz Tigelaar is the writer and showrunner for this new series, "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on Strayed's book of essays by the same name. The series stars Kathryn Hahn as Clare, a wife, mom, and struggling writer who is confronted with an offer to become an advice columnist right at the time her own life is falling apart. Tigelaar and Strayed join us to discuss the series, which premieres on Hulu on April 7th.

If at first you don't succeed...maybe you produced a product like Olestra. Or limeade-flavored Oreos. Or Colgate's beef lasagna. These items are all on display at the traveling Museum of Failure, which is now at Industry City in Brooklyn. Founder Samuel West joins us to discuss what we can learn from failure -- and why it's necessary to innovate.

[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 5, 2023] An exhibition on view now at the Guggenheim surveys the work of Chicago artist Nick Cave, who you may recognize from his mosaic installations scattered around the New York City subway. Nick Cave: Forothermore, displays Cave's sculptures, video projects, textiles, and also early work of the artist. Cave, alongside Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim's deputy director and lead curator, join us to discuss the exhibition, which is on view until April 10.

"Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" premiered in theaters over the weekend. Directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley join us to discuss the process of filming a movie based on the classic fantasy tabletop role-playing game. We also take your calls.

We receive news updates the arrest of former President Donald Trump from WNYC/ Gothamist reporter Elizabeth Kim.