Live Podcast Recording Featuring James S. Snyder
Person, Place, Thing
The Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Media Program
Attend a live taping of the podcast Person Place Thing, an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen (formerly “The Ethicist” at The New York Times Magazine), based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. In this special first event at the Jewish Museum, Cohen speaks with James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, about Paul Klee’s intimate and revelatory drawing Angelus Novus (1920) among other topics.
About the host:
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine.
This program has been funded by a generous donation endowment from the Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Family Foundation.
Tickets: $24 General; $16 Students and Seniors; $Free for Jewish Museum Members
Doors open at 6 pm; Includes Museum Admission
Paul Klee, "Angelus Novus", 1920, 32. Oil transfer and watercolor on paper, 12.5 in × 9.5 in (31.8 cm × 24.2 cm). The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Gift of Fania and Gershom Scholem, Jerusalem; John Herring, Marlene and Paul Herring, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder, New York, B87.0994. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
