Athenaeum Review

Turner's Modern World at the Kimbell Art Museum: https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/turners-modern-world Turner's Modern World catalog: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847869343/ What made Turner modern? (1:00) — Stylistic transition in the 1830s; “painting with tinted steam”; The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (4:30) — The sublime and the incomprehensibly powerful; painting a steamship in a snowstorm (8:00) — Contrast with Ruskin on medievalism and industrialization; The Thames Above Waterloo Bridge; canals and steam engines (12:30) — Mark Twain trashes The Slave Ship; evolving reception and public appreciation of Turner's style (17:15) — A British painter; traveling in Europe; Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen; seeing Venice, Venetian painting and Vesuvius; seeing European painting at the National Gallery in London and the Dulwich Picture Gallery (24:00) — Political and social conflicts in 19th-century England; the class system and political reform; women's suffrage; the wreck of the Amphitrite (A Disaster at Sea) (31:30) — The wide range of Turner's patrons; painting a scene in Venice and a nocturne of coal barges being loaded (Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight) (38:00) — Viewing Turner: in person vs. online (43:15) Paintings by J.M.W. Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (c. 1834-35) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-burning-of-the-houses-of-parliament-d36235 Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (exh. 1842) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530 The Thames above Waterloo Bridge (c. 1830-35) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-thames-above-waterloo-bridge-n01992 Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (c. 1805-06) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31489/fall-of-the-rhine-at-schaffhausen A Disaster at Sea (c. 1835) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-a-disaster-at-sea-n00558 Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835) https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1225.html

More about Czesław Miłosz: A California Life https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/ https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/czeslaw-milosz/ How the book originated (0:45) — The vatic tradition in Polish poetry (4:30) — Warsaw 1945 and “Dedication” (6:45) — Introducing Polish literature to California students (11:00) — Immersion in American literature and culture after 1945 (15:00) — Under surveillance by the U.S. government; defecting to the U.S.; Stalinism as “swallowing frogs” (17:30) — Being and becoming; poetry and philosophy; from Thomas Aquinas to James Fenimore Cooper (20:30) — The superhuman California landscape (24:30) — Transition from Poland to Berkeley and “Magic Mountain” (25:30) — The loss of “second space” and spiritual imagination (30:30) — A playful thinker, and “To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only” (34:00) “Dedication” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49458/dedication “A Magic Mountain” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49456/a-magic-mountain “To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/03/23/to-mrs-professor-in-defense-of-my-cats-honor-and-n/

Engaging skeptical audiences in a polarized age (1:30) — Two cheers for the Enlightenment, and the Stephen King-Lovecraftian vibes of New England (7:30) — Self-experimentation, and moderate deference to scientific consensus (12:15) — Giving science the right amount of authority (17:00) — When, and when not, to write from personal experience (19:30) — American Gnosticism, Emerson, Descartes, and the overwhelming desire to escape from the body when suffering from chronic illness (23:00) — Taking Marvel seriously (29:15) — The campus Left's long-overdue challenge to the neoliberal-technocratic elite university (35:00) — Care, the humanities, & the bureaucracy (38:00) — The successes of urbanism in New Haven (42:00) THE DEEP PLACES: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646761/the-deep-places-by-ross-douthat/ Ross Douthat at the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/column/ross-douthat The Athenaeum Review podcast: http://athenaeumreview.org/podcasts/

Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler speak about Flora, their exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, on view from September 5, 2021 to January 16, 2022. https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler-flora https://hubbardbirchler.net/works/flora/ https://hubbardbirchler.net/works/bust/

A conversation about the new film, John Wilcox: The Relinquishment of Time, with filmmakers Exploredinary (Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky) and Dr. David Wilcox, the artist's brother. About the film: https://www.exploredinary.com/johnwilcox About the artist John Wilcox: https://johnwilcoxart.com/ Winner of "Best Texas Film" at the 2021 Hill Country Film Festival in Fredericksburg. Oct. 3, 2021 screening at Dallas VideoFest: https://www.facebook.com/events/597286891298995/ Oct. 28, 2021 screening on KERA's Frame of Mind: https://artandseek.org/2021/09/01/texas-film-fans-check-out-the-lineup-for-frame-of-mind-on-kera-tv/ Coming soon: screenings at the Lone Star Film Festival (November 2021) and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. John Wilcox Art on Instagram Exploredinary on Instagram

An interview with artist and gallerist David Quadrini, on the occasion of the exhibition "An Artists' Homage to the Dynamic Influence of Rick Brettell," curated by Greg Metz at SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas, Sept. 10 to Oct. 9, 2021. https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/art_exhibition_brettell_an_artistshomageto_the_dynamic_influence_of_rick_brettell http://athenaeumreview.org/podcasts

Lauren Brazeal, Matthew Baker and Rebecca Cai interview poet Roy G. Guzmán. http://athenaeumreview.org/podcasts/

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Our guest on this episode is the poet, translator, and critic A. M. Juster, whose next book, Wonder and Wrath, will be published by Paul Dry Books in early 2021.

Our guest on this episode is Sean Valles, the author of Philosophy of Population Health.

Our guest on this podcast is Jacob Stegenga, the author of Care and Cure and Medical Nihilism. We discuss the effectiveness of medical interventions, the relationship between philosophers and practitioners, how to deal with complexity, the nature of sexual desire, and much more.

A conversation with Michele Hanlon, Associate Dean of the Arts at UT Dallas, about the transition to producing virtual events in spring 2020: https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/virtual-events.html