In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"
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In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"

B1IntermediateAugust 7, 202520 min

"You don't go look at a Rothko; you go inside a Rothko." - Claire, visitor, National Gallery of Art Modern art. Two little words that strike so much fear in the heart of the average museum goer. When you're used to straightforward, legible paintings and sculptures, Modernism can be pretty destabilizing. Pretty weird. Canvases are now spattered with paint, or lined with grids, or barely containing the shapes that seem to want to float away. A car tire is cut apart and reassembled. A giant mobile floats in the air, catching the breeze. And it's n...

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We do get a lot of folks that are like, I don't really like modern art. They're like, I just don't get it. And I'm like, well, maybe you're reading,

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maybe you're trying to get too much into it. Like, there's not as much, I said it's not as intimidating as you think. This is Laura, our visitor experience representative

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from episode one. Sometimes the metal box on the floor is just a metal box on the floor. Like, it's just about its structure.

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