In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"
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In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"

B1IntermediateJuly 31, 202525 min
  • Arts & culture

"Questions and the search for answers, and the appreciation of beauty, and then wanting to share it with other people, to go look at it closely together. Then you realize you've got something that can feed you for the rest of your life as a career." - Emily Pegues, curator, National Gallery of Art. Museum curators are an intimidating species. Those experts with their degrees. How could they possibly remember what it was like to walk into a museum for the first time and feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of history on display? How could they...

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Hi, I'm Tamar. I'm a podcast worker from the museum right now. So what brings you to the museum today? Yeah, well Amy and I have sort of been speeding through, I think, some of this historic art

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painted by presumably old white men is less interesting. I think I just prefer, you know, at least in the contemporary areas, you're more likely to get a variety of voices where, you know, you're walking through here and we're just peeking in the galleries peeking in the galleries and it's like, oh,

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families or dogs or, you know, whatever. And it feels, they're from different times, but it feels rather similar and samey. Most of these are really boring to me.

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