Art & The Artists’ Mind
with the 2025 Woody English Chair: Adam Moss
Tuesday, July 29
6pm at Edgewood Farm

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Adam Moss is a journalist and editor. He is the author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, A New York Times best seller published in 2024 by Penguin Press. From 2004-2019 he was editor-in-chief of New York Magazine. During his 15-year tenure he oversaw an ambitious digital expansion in his role as editor-in-chief of parent company New York Media, with the magazine and digital properties widely recognized for editorial excellence. He oversaw five digital publications in addition to New York: Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Grub Street, each of which were created from scratch and collectively reach an audience of 50 million visitors each month. Under Moss’s leadership New York and nymag.com won 41 National Magazine Awards, more than any other magazine over this time period, including Magazine of the Year. New York’s groundbreaking journalistic event “Cosby: The Women” won the 2015 George Polk Award for magazine reporting. In 2018, the magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Before joining New York magazine, Moss was the editor of the New York Times Magazine, as well as assistant managing editor of the paper, overseeing the magazine, Book Review, culture and style. The New York Times Magazine received many awards for journalism, photography and design, including two nominations for the Pulitzer prize, under Moss’s leadership. Moss was founding editor of 7 Days, a New York weekly magazine, which won the National Magazine Award for general excellence in its circulation class in 1990. Before that, he worked at Esquire magazine in a variety of positions, including those of managing editor and deputy editor. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College, his alma mater, and is a member of the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. He is also sometimes (and with great frustration) a painter.