'Someone Knows Something' Podcast, Cecilia Vicuña at the Guggenheim, A LIRR Transit Update, 2022 Debuts, Lincoln Center Summer for the City Series

Cecilia Vicuña, Autobiografía, 1971. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2×25 1/4 in. (59.7×64.1 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Fund, 2019.

The latest season of the CBC award-winning podcast, Someone Knows Something, looks into shootings of abortion providers that occurred in the U.S and Canada in the 1990's. Host David Ridgen and contributing reporter Amanda Robb join us to preview the podcast.

Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene, is a new exhibition at the Guggenheim that focuses on the life and work of Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean artist who didn't return to her native country for a long time after the Pinochet-led coup and takeover in 1973. The show will display work of Vicuña's from the late 1960's, to the 1980's when she settled in New York, and to work she's still creating today. Vicuña and curator Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and join us to preview the show, which is on display until September 5.

Grand Central Madison is not the name of a new hot restaurant. It's an 11 billion dollar train station, nearly 15 years in the making...carved out of the rock 150 feet below Grand Central. It will bring Long Island Rail Road trains to the East Side of Manhattan for the first time. WNYC transit reporter Stephen Nessen joins to talk about when the station will open, and what it means for commuters.

We continue our series 2022 Debuts, spotlighting debut authors, by speaking with Vauhini Vara, contributing writer for The New Yorker. Her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, tells the story of a daughter of the most famous tech CEO in the world, who decides to try to band together world business leaders to combat climate change. Vara joins us to discuss.

Lincoln Center's Summer for the City series runs through August 14 and is packed with free performances, dance parties, and more. To preview the rest of the summer's events, chief artistic officer Shanta Thake joins us along with Tony-winning designer Clint Ramos, who created the festival's outdoor dance floor, The Oasis, which opens tonight.

*This episode is guest-hosted by Matt Katz*