NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation announced its founding sponsorship of Alchemy with Anthony Mason, a new long-form interview series hosted by veteran journalist Anthony Mason that explores how creatives transform lived experience into meaningful work. Through in-depth conversations with leading artists, musicians and cultural figures, the YouTube-based series offers captivating, 45-minute conversations that focus not on what artists make, but on what making does to them.
Filmed in Mason’s New York home, Alchemy creates a space for conversations that are unguarded, reflective, and deeply human. The series invites audiences to slow down and engage with the creative process in a way that feels both intimate and expansive.
FLAG’s sponsorship of Alchemy is the latest example of its continued effort to move beyond its brick-and-mortar space to support art and culture. Through its growing institutional partnerships and cultural sponsorships, FLAG extends its curatorial voice to support the art world at large by highlighting two exhibitions and programs throughout both North America, Europe, and beyond in each episode. To date, the partnership has spotlighted exhibitions that reflect the themes of the series, including Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades, on view through July 19, 2026, at the Parrish Art Museum; the reopening of the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and Marcel Duchamp’s first U.S. retrospective in 50 years at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)—all emblematic of artistic evolution and creative legacy.
“Anthony Mason is one of the most incisive journalists of our time and someone whose voice we are proud to support,” said Glenn Fuhrman, Founder of The FLAG Art Foundation. “At a time when journalism and intellectual exchange are being undermined, and broadcast media is in decline, a program like Alchemy becomes even more impactful for the way it preserves a space for long-form discussion and debate.”
Anthony Mason, the host of Alchemy, is also a Special Correspondent with CBS News. One of the most versatile and experienced television journalists, Anthony co-hosted CBS This Morning: Saturday for seven years (2012-2019), and then the weekday CBS This Morning broadcast for two more. But he may be best known for his interviews with artists like Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Annie Leibovitz, and André 3000. He has won a dozen Emmy Awards. And in 2023, the Songwriters Hall of Fame presented him their Patron of the Arts Award.
The FLAG Art Foundation is a non-collecting, nonprofit exhibition space that mounts solo, two-person, and thematic group exhibitions centering on emerging and established artists from around the globe. Organized by a diverse community of curators and thinkers within and beyond the art world, FLAG opened to the public in 2008 and has staged over 100 exhibitions celebrating the work of nearly 1,000 artists. Committed to providing education and resources for its surrounding community, and across New York City, all exhibitions and programs-including artist talks, artist-led workshops, and guided tours for school and museum groups - are free and open to the public.
The FLAG Art Foundation was founded by Glenn Fuhrman, an art patron and philanthropist, and alongside his wife Amanda, a Co-Founder of The Fuhrman Family Foundation. Fuhrman is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and The Tate Americas Foundation, New York, NY, and is a Board Member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a Board Member of the 92nd Street Y, New York, and The Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY.
