Tim McHenry, moderator (Arts and Science, Session II) at FAST FORWARD: Imagining the Future, ISPA's 62nd Annual Congress, in New York City on January 12-14, 2010.  View the full Schedule of Events.

Tim McHenry

Tim McHenry, producer at the Rubin Museum of Art since 2003 has been active in the arts for 28 years, beginning at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland and the Zurich Opera in Switzerland. As artistic director of the Armistice Festival (1988) he also edited an anthology The Lost Voices of World War I, published by Bloomsbury. He has also worked for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker where he programmed for the annual New Yorker Festival for the first four years. In charge of the programmatic content of the Rubin Museum of Art since its founding in 2004, he has developed a decidedly lateral association style of programming to connect the general public to what is for most an esoteric art form. One of these successful series BRAINWAVE, now in its third year, brings diverse figures such as Tom Wolfe, Mario Batali, Eric Fischl, Paul Simon, Peter Sellars, Miranda July, Lewis Black, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, R.L. Stine, Darren Aronofsky, Moby, Peter Matthiessen, and Julie Taymor together with scientists Semir Zeki, Steven Pinker, Joseph LeDoux, Paul Rozin, Andrew Newberg, and Daniel J. Levitin. This year starts February 17 with Mark Morris and Wellesley College neuroscientist Bevil Conway exploring perception and continues through to mid April. www.rmanyc.org/brainwave