05/21/2026
Congratulations to the Pratt Institute Class of 2026 ! What a wonderful commencement ceremony on Tuesday at Radio City Music Hall. The speech by the David Remnick , the editor of New Yorker magazine was honest and, well, very well written and spoken.
“This society, or any society, is going to thrive, it demands, it cries out for citizens of imagination and creativity. The society that does not encourage and cultivate its individual and collective imagination is an empty society, a sterile society. The irony is that society does not reward its creative members the way they do hedge fund managers, it cannot survive without them. It cannot survive without you!”
Congratulations to architects, designers, artists, writers! You have a lot of work to do!
