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“Why We Tell Stories” is a discussion between Greg Hurwitz & Jonathan Pageau which took place on January 31, 2025. In this exchange, two prominent professionals in creative fields discuss the place of passion, productivity, and integrity in the context of their careers, and offer insights which range from guiding, general principles to concrete, practical advice. Over the course of their discussion with each other and with the students, they field questions about the artistic process; about the public attention they've received for their work; about the lessons they've learned; and about their impression of Ralston College and its place in a broader context of cultural and educational renewal.  This event was part of Ralston College's Career and Life conversations, a series of informal Friday-afternoon discussions for students enrolled in the MA in the Humanities. To apply to this program, please visit our website: www.ralston.ac/apply. Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode: Aristotle Dante Alighieri DC Comics' Batman series The Book of Genesis Jordan B. Peterson Stephen King William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929) Rashomon (1950; dir. Akira Kurosawa) Marcel Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” (1912)  Sigmund Freud Carl Rogers Jackson Pollock Pablo Picasso Lucile Ball Groucho Marx Sammy Davis Jr. James Patterson John Grisham  Dr James Orr Dr Douglas Hedley Douglas Murray Ben Shapiro William Shakespeare Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code Hamilton: An American Musical  Harry Potter series  William Goldman  

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1191, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Go To H. With H in quotation marks 1: It's the medical term for bad breath. halitosis. 2: Buzz in when you know this one -- in ancient times, this sweet, sticky liquid was used to treat wounds. Honey. 3: At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer. Hacker. 4: Established in 1519, this capital is the largest city in the West Indies. Havana (Cuba). 5: This small nocturnal mammal covered with spines rolls into a ball when threatened. a hedgehog. Round 2. Category: With A Sculpture On Top 1: Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor. the Little Mermaid. 2: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building. the U.S. Capitol. 3: Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat. William Penn. 4: The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city. Rio de Janeiro. 5: A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square. Nelson. Round 3. Category: Traditional Eastern Medicine 1: Most acupuncture points relate to pathways along the body called these, like the ones connecting poles on a globe. meridians. 2: Cupping stimulates acupuncture points by applying suction through a glass jar, creating a partial one of these. a vacuum. 3: Acupuncture needles, now steel and as thin as a hair, were once made of the woody stem of this giant grass. bamboo. 4: Research shows that acupuncture increases brain production of these hormones, natural painkillers. endorphins. 5: Once in weight-loss products, ma huang is the Chinese name for this herbal stimulant used to treat asthma. ephedra. Round 4. Category: Shocking Art 1: His mural at Rockefeller Center was destroyed because it included a depiction of Lenin. Diego Rivera. 2: 1485 Florence was shocked by this artist's large nude painting of the birth of a goddess. Botticelli. 3: In 1892 Berlin authorities screamed and closed the exhibit by this Scandinavian artist. (Edvard) Munch. 4: This impressionist's Christ paintings of 1864 and 1865 were crucified for being unidealized. Édouard Manet. 5: Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" caused a stir at this 1913 show in New York City. the Armory Show. Round 5. Category: And Span D_X. With D_X in quotes 1: This 2-word term for a spiral shape dates to 1954. double helix. 2: A house with 2 living units, or an apartment with 2 floors. duplex. 3: Type of treatment to help someone recover from drug or alcohol abuse. detox. 4: Numerical 2-word term for getting rid of something, perhaps by sending it to Davy Jones' locker. deep six. 5: U.S. patent 4194846 is for this kind of printer. dot-matrix. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Marcel Duchamp liked to portray himself as a rebel and an outsider courting controversy. While he was bold and pushing boundaries, he also came from a family of artists and he served as an advisor to the likes of Peggy Guggenheim and MoMA. Two of Duchamp's best known pieces were Nude Descending a Staircase 2 and Fountain. Check out my other podcasts  Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcel Duchamp liked to portray himself as a rebel and an outsider courting controversy. While he was bold and pushing boundaries, he also came from a family of artists and he served as an advisor to the likes of Peggy Guggenheim and MoMA. Two of Duchamp's best known pieces were Nude Descending a Staircase 2 and Fountain. Arts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27 will get a $50 Amazon gift card) Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is transforming our world in a myriad of ways. Witnessing some of those changes from the frontlines is artist and documentarian Agnieszka Pilat whose subjects range from aging machinery to emerging technology. In this episode of Before IT Happened, Pilat joins host Donna Loughlin to talk about growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Poland, her fascination with robotics, NFTs, and her newest posting as artist-in-residence at Elon Musk's SpaceX. Before any world-changing innovation, there was a moment, an event, a realization that sparked the idea before it happened. This is a podcast about that moment — about that idea. Before IT Happened takes you on a journey with the innovators who imagined — and are still imagining — our future. Join host Donna Loughlin as her guests tell their stories of how they brought their visions to life.  JUMP STRAIGHT INTO: (04:45) - Discovering art in the Soviet Union - "We grew up with a lot of art around us. A lot of it was Soviet, a very specific kind of public art. The glory of the working man, glory of the army. So, it was very specific, but technically wonderful." (09:28) - Agnieszka's first steps into the professional world of art - "I wanted to tell the story of my love for this country from the perspective of someone who grew up in Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain. I thought that art was the language to do it." (17:08) - Robotics and Boston Dynamics - "It occurs to me that future intelligent AI machines may look at these portraits and think, ‘These are my cultural ancestors." (22:48) - Working at SpaceX - "When I think of these machines and technologies, going back to the concept of portraiture, I think of space technology as the superhero." (26:35) - On the metaverse and augmented reality - "I think the real world is going to the lake with your family and friends and having a glass of wine together,  so I'm cautious about the metaverse and the optimism around it." (31:22) - NFTs - "If money was my main value, I wouldn't be an artist. So, I think to change it like that and start valuing art for what it can sell for, that bothers me." EPISODE RESOURCES:  Learn more about https://www.pilatart.com/ (Agnieszka's work) Connect with Agnieszka on https://twitter.com/agnieszka_pilat?s=20&t=dpRH853gjqd4oibShC-EKw (Twitter) and https://www.instagram.com/agnieszka_pilat/ (Instagram) Read New York Magazine's https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/agnieszka-pilat-artist-silicon-valley.html (See Spot Paint. Agnieszka Pilat has become the Silicon Valley elite's favorite artist. Even The Matrix's Neo owns her work.) Read The First News' https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/artist-raises-usd-40000-for-ukrainian-refugees-with-painting-co-created-by-a-robotic-dog-called-spot-28956 (Artist raises USD 40,000 for Ukrainian refugees with painting co-created by a robotic dog called Spot) Read Cultbytes' https://cultbytes.com/agnieszka-pilat-humanizing-machines/ (Agnieszka Pilat: The Artist that Became the Darling of SF's Tech Elite by Humanizing Machines) See Marcel Duchamp's https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/51449 (Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)) Read the Nerdist's https://nerdist.com/article/dall-e-ai-program-images-from-text-prompt/ (The DALL-E AI Program Draws Anything You Ask It To) Listen to Before IT Happened's: https://www.beforeithappened.com/podcast-episodes/before-there-were-selfies-inventing-the-first-digital-camera-at-kodak-with-steve-sasson-episode-14 (Before There Were Selfies: Inventing the First Digital Camera at Kodak with Steve Sasson) Thank you for listening! Follow https://www.beforeithappened.com/ (Before IT Happened) on https://www.instagram.com/beforeithappenedshow/ (Instagram) and https://twitter.com/TheBIHShow (Twitter), and don't forget to subscribe, rate and share the show wherever you listen to podcasts!  Before IT Happened is produced by Donna Loughlin and...

A "house on chicken legs” in Moscow designed by Viktor Andreyev, Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room first published on 26 October 1922, Coal Cart Blues sung by Louis Armstrong drawing on his own experiences of pulling one round the streets of New Orleans where he started his teenage years living in a Home for Waifs; Duchamp's 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 are picked out as novelist Will Self, art historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris, jazz and music expert Kevin Le Gendre and architecture writer Owen Hatherley try to nail down the elements that make something modernist; looking at the importance of rhythm, the depiction of everyday life and new inventions, psychology and how you describe the self and utopian ideas about communal living. The presenter is New Generation Thinker and essayist Laurence Scott. Producer: Luke Mulhall Image: Will Self in BBC Broadcasting House, London Part of the modernism season running across BBC Radio 3 and 4 with programmes marking the publication in 1922 of Ulysses by James Joyce, a reading of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a Words and Music playlist of readings from key works published in 1922 and a Sunday Feature on Radio 3 looking at the "all in a day" artwork.

How did Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 set the art world ablaze? – Abhorred and adored all at once – Nudity without critical comprehension – Changing a turn of the century outlook Read LadyKflo's collected works and learn about more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site.   https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/   Checkout her socials too:   https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo

Part 5.2 of JAMIE'S HISTORY OF AMERICAN WINE The Epic Conclusion of our super-sized discussion of LITTLE WOMEN and Anthill Farms Pinot Noir! What does the smell of pencil shavings have to do with aged wine? How does Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase fit into director Greta Gerwig's take on the classic novel? Does any of this have any bearing on the purported timelessness of Anthill Farms Pinot Noir? Answers probably just around the corner for those brave enough to press play! LITTLE WOMEN was written for the screen and directed by Greta Gerwig. It stars Saorise Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Laura Dern. It is available to rent wherever you get your VOD movies. The 2019 Anthill Farms Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir is available at Astor Wine and Spirits for $35 plus tax and shipping. Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @BiggerBottlePod Music is selected from Camille Saint-Saëns' ‘The Carnival of the Animals - XII. Fossils' as performed by the Seattle Youth Symphony, licensed under Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Beatrice Wood's finest work of art could well have been her life. The famous ceramicist was in the middle of key 20th century moments - Igor Stravinsky's tumultuous Rites of Spring debut in Paris in 1912, Marcel Duchamp's controversial "Nude Descending a Staircase" and his "Fountain" in 1917. "The Mama of Dada" more than any single person, shaped Ojai's identity as an arts haven and inspirational, creative place. Kevin Wallace, director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, talks about her life, loves, influences, those she influenced, and much much more. We also talk about Kevin's journey to Ojai and his new venture as a folk musician at age 60, inspired by Beatrice Wood, who flourished well in into her 80s and 90s and even 100s. The center is open for visitors after the pandemic, and eager to share the story and fabulous art of this remarkable woman. Check out their website at https://www.beatricewood.com/

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together for the first time and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully as the horse it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I'm telling you about it Twitter：@camelliayang Instagram：@camelliayang Clubhouse: @camelliayang Website: https://www.camelliayang.com/

Hosted by Hannah Murphy Hannah discusses varying aspects of Art History , tackling Duchamp's Readymades and one of his most well known paintings ”Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2)”. Hannah discusses how Duchamp's work altered the definition of what constitutes as art, and how he paved the way for artists to develop their work beyond the art world's rules. This episode also discusses the controversies surrounding Duchamp and his work.

Today, we're joined by writer and historian Rayshauna Gray to discuss breaking painful cycles. In addition to her work with Harvard University, The Cambridge Historical Society, Boston Book Festival, and National Organization for Women's Legislative Task Force, Rayshauna blends history, theology, astrology and tarot to explore topics like intergenerational trauma and imposter syndrome. She created #TheHeartWorkIs Framework, the Modus Operandi deck, and is currently finishing her first book, Roseland, which narrates the last 200 years of the nation's history through the stories of seven generations of women in Gray's family. She is brilliant, generous and oh-so-kind. We know you'll be as fascinated by this conversation as we were!Mentioned in this episode:Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 Modus Operandi deck#TheHeartWorkIs FrameworkFollow Rayshauna on InstagramLearn more about Rayshauna's work Your hosts:Kristen Ciccolini | Good Witch Kitchen | @goodwitchkitchen | The Lunar Body Podcast Janine Mulone | Feel Good Retail | @feelgoodretail | Retail for the Rest of Us Podcast Keep in touch!Website: selfcareforcycles.com Instagram: @selfcareforcycles Subscribe:iTunes | Spotify | Google | Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to leave a review! It lets us know you're listening and it helps other amazing people like you find our show!

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With his new novel, The Grand Dark (Harper Voyager), Richard Kadrey takes an artistic leap from his renowned Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. We sit down in a murder hotel to talk about mixing robots and genetic engineering with Weimar Germany, getting inspired by Mel Gordon's Voluptuous Panic, David Bowie's Low, and the Brothers Quay's Street of Crocodiles, the impact of the 2016 election on his writing, and how he's getting ready to end the Sandman Slim series. We also get into the gentrification of the east Village and the Bowery, the thin line between preservation and nostalgia, the moment his brain got warped by Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, our shared love of What We Do In The Shadows, the time he attended a screening of Cronenberg's Crash with Kathy Acker, his LitReactor course on writing dark urban fantasy, the wonder of being edited by Ellen Datlow, the accretionary model of novel-writing, and why it's okay to build your fantastic world by just looking out the window. (Check out our 2018 conversation!) • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

מרסל דושאן הוא אולי אחד האמנים המשפיעים ביותר של המאה ה-20, אבל לא הוא ולא היצירות שלו מוכרות כל כך לקהל הרחב. אז מי הוא היה, ומה כל כך מהפכני בהחלטה שלו לצייר למונה ליזה שפם? חמדת כסלו מגיעה אלינו לאולפן להראות שהאמן היה יותר מאשר פרובוקטור, והמשתנה היא יותר מאשר גוש חרסינה. יצירות שהזכרנו בהקלטה: נתון: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tant_donn%C3%A9s שחקני השח: https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/portrait-of-chess-players-1911 עירום יורד במדרגות: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2 הזכוכית הגדולה: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_by_Her_Bachelors,_Even גלגל האופניים: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81631 חם לה בתחת: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q. לתמיכה בנו בבפטראון: https://www.patreon.com/historia היסטוריה גדולה, בקטנה בפייסבוק: www.facebook.com/Diggstory סמסונג נקסט: samsungnext.com/tel-aviv/ מוזיקת פתיחה וסיום: Scott Holmes / Corporate Innovative

A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Morgan Bartlett first shared on the show in May of 2012 about an evening of nudity and confusion.

In 1919, two competing art movements went head-to-head in Paris. One was the Return to Order, a movement about purity and harmony. The other was Dada, a movement about chaos and destruction. Their collision would change the trajectory of Western art. Hugo Ball established the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, where Dada came to life in February 1916. In this photo, he's dressed in his "magic bishop" costume. The costume was so stiff and ungainly that Ball had to be carried on and off stage. You can hear the entire text of Ball's "Karawane" on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8Wg40F3yo). You can also read the text (https://poets.org/poem/karawane). Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York to a hero's welcome, a far cry from the disdainful treatment he was receiving in France. He was hailed for his success at the 1913 Armory Show, where his painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" was the hit of the show. "Nude Descending a Staircase" was considered radical art, but it was still oil paint on canvas. Duchamp would soon leave even that much tradition behind. Francis Picabia was handsome, rich, dashing, and about as faithful as an alley cat. That he wasn't court martialed for neglecting his diplomat mission to Cuba for artistic shenanigans in New York was entirely due to his family's wealth and influence. He was also well known in New York for his visit there during the Armory Show. Picabia abandoned traditional painting for meticulous line drawings of mass-produced items, including this work, titled "Young American Girl in a State of Nudity." Duchamp horrified New Yorkers when he presented "Fountain" to an art exhibit as a work of sculpture. A urinal may not seem particularly shocking now, but it violated any number of taboos in 1917. While "Fountain" is generally atttributed to Duchamp, it is possible, although by no mean certain, that it was actually created by the Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven. A German ex-pat, she was creating art out of ready-made objects more than a year before Duchamp and lived her life as a kind of non-stop performance art. Whatever her role in "Fountain," she deserves to be better remembered as a pioneering modernist. After he returned to Europe, Picabia's art became less disciplined and more outlandish. He titled this ink-blot "The Virgin Saint." Picabia also published a Dadaist journal, in which he published this work by Duchamp. It's a cheap postcard of the "Mona Lisa" to which he added a mustache. The title "L.H.O.O.Q. is a pun in French; it sounds like "she has a hot ass." Tzara and other Dadaists in Paris devoted themselves to events and performances. This is a handbill for a "Festival Dada" that took place on May 26, 1920. Tzara and Picabia are listed as performing, along with several other prominent Dadaists including Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard. These evenings became increasingly frantic and nihilistic as Dada wore on. By 1919, Pablo Picasso part of the artistic establishment and no longer a radical on the edges of society. In 1911/1912, Picasso paintings looked like this--this is "Ma Jolie," a dense, complicated, frankly intimidating Cubist painting. Ten years later, he painted this work, Woman in White. With its clarity, beauty, and nods to tradition, it is a prime example of Picasso's embrace of neo-classicism after the Great War. The impulse to create clear, simple, ordered art existed in many European countries. In the Netherlands, Piet Mondrian worked in the Neoplasticist movement creating his iconic grid paintings. This is "Composition No. 2" from 1920. At the same time, in Germany the Bauhaus was established. As a school of arts and crafts, it taught a stripped-down, clean aesthetic that applied to everything from architecture to furniture design, industrial design to graphic design. This poster advertising a 1923 exhibition is a good example of Bauhaus design and typography. The Surrealist movement arose out of Dada's ashes in the mid- to late-1920s. It combined the traditional painting technique of neo-Classicism with the bizarre imagery of Dada. Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Memory," for example, is a technical masterpiece, with masterful execution. It's also impossible and, frankly, disturbing. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" gives the impression of randomness, of lines picked out of a coat pocket. In fact, it is painstakingly constructed and shows as much technical skill as Dali's clocks. You can read the poem (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land), or listen to Alec Guinness read it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw)--or maybe do both at the same time. This meme was created in 2013 by cartoonist KC Green. It captures the Dadaist attitude that shows up in popular culture a great deal here in 2019--a sense that the world is really weird right now. Please note that the links below to Amazon are affiliate links. That means that, at no extra cost to you, I can earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. (Here's what, legally, I'm supposed to tell you: I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.) However, I only recommend books that I have used and genuinely highly recommend.

The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (Tachyon Publications, 2017) is a deft little novel, is a perfect fit for people who are not just interested in fantasy, but also history, art, geography and linguistics. If you are a man, and appreciate an elegant woman wearing lace and jewelry more than a bronze bikini-clad babe with a vacuous stare, you might also appreciate the work of James Morrow. Like T. Coraghessan Boyle, but with more palatable characters, and less heft, James Morrow draws on actual historical figures in his novel. While there was no country of Weizenstaat, which would mean ‘Wheat State,’ there was certainly a Blue period for Pablo Picasso, and a painting by Duchamp called ‘Nude Descending a Staircase.’ As a German speaker, and someone who grew up in an apartment filled with my father’s art books, I got a lot of knowing chuckles out of terms such as Farbenmensch which refers to a man who comes to life out of a painting, or the description of Picasso throwing the narrator, an aspiring artist, down the stairs. I would say this is less a fantasy novel, in the usual modern sense, than an allegory about war and the patriotic frenzy that inspires men to lay down their life. Set at the outbreak of World War I, the novel contrasts those who see the true horror of war, including the narrator, a lunatic, and a gay couple, with those who wish to profit from it. Its clear that Morrow, an elderly gentleman, has strong pacifist leanings which were probably exercised as far back as the Vietnam war. The famous poet Wilfred Owen implied ironically in his anti-war poem ‘Dulce e Decorum est,’ that it was sweet to die for ones country in the trenches, choking on chlorine gas. That Morrow seems to agree is indicated in passages such as this rant ascribed to Caligari, the villain: at long last the architects of the Great War can look back on their many accomplishments: a devastated France, a demoralized Britain, a ransacked Germany, a receiving line of corpses stretching from Armentires to Zanzibar. The construction of the sentences is often intricate, like the example above. Many phrases are a delight, and I was amused, edified, and illumined. Be aware the pleasures in this book are more to be found in the musings on art, history, and philosophy. The plot is an elegant scaffolding on which to hang these gems of observation. Gabrielle Mathieu is the author of the historical fantasy Falcon series (The Falcon Flies Alone, and the upcoming The Falcon Strikes.) She blogs about travel and her books at http://gabriellemathieu.com/. You can also follow her on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more: @GabrielleAuthor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (Tachyon Publications, 2017) is a deft little novel, is a perfect fit for people who are not just interested in fantasy, but also history, art, geography and linguistics. If you are a man, and appreciate an elegant woman wearing lace and jewelry more than a bronze bikini-clad babe with a vacuous stare, you might also appreciate the work of James Morrow. Like T. Coraghessan Boyle, but with more palatable characters, and less heft, James Morrow draws on actual historical figures in his novel. While there was no country of Weizenstaat, which would mean ‘Wheat State,’ there was certainly a Blue period for Pablo Picasso, and a painting by Duchamp called ‘Nude Descending a Staircase.’ As a German speaker, and someone who grew up in an apartment filled with my father’s art books, I got a lot of knowing chuckles out of terms such as Farbenmensch which refers to a man who comes to life out of a painting, or the description of Picasso throwing the narrator, an aspiring artist, down the stairs. I would say this is less a fantasy novel, in the usual modern sense, than an allegory about war and the patriotic frenzy that inspires men to lay down their life. Set at the outbreak of World War I, the novel contrasts those who see the true horror of war, including the narrator, a lunatic, and a gay couple, with those who wish to profit from it. Its clear that Morrow, an elderly gentleman, has strong pacifist leanings which were probably exercised as far back as the Vietnam war. The famous poet Wilfred Owen implied ironically in his anti-war poem ‘Dulce e Decorum est,’ that it was sweet to die for ones country in the trenches, choking on chlorine gas. That Morrow seems to agree is indicated in passages such as this rant ascribed to Caligari, the villain: at long last the architects of the Great War can look back on their many accomplishments: a devastated France, a demoralized Britain, a ransacked Germany, a receiving line of corpses stretching from Armentires to Zanzibar. The construction of the sentences is often intricate, like the example above. Many phrases are a delight, and I was amused, edified, and illumined. Be aware the pleasures in this book are more to be found in the musings on art, history, and philosophy. The plot is an elegant scaffolding on which to hang these gems of observation. Gabrielle Mathieu is the author of the historical fantasy Falcon series (The Falcon Flies Alone, and the upcoming The Falcon Strikes.) She blogs about travel and her books at http://gabriellemathieu.com/. You can also follow her on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more: @GabrielleAuthor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dropout Gang discusses the entire lifework of Marcel Duchamp in only 10 minutes. 0:20 Welcome Suerynn! 3:00 Duckboat is a good band name 5:20 Marcel Duchamp was, YES, a well known chess player 6:45 Marcel Duchamp was a shy guy 7:30 Nude Descending a Staircase 8:10 Retinal art // bad 10:30 Marcel Duchamp the bad boy of the art world 11:15 Dada 12:20 The Readymades 13:30 "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even” or as Suerynn likes to call it “Face Torture” 14:30 “Imma play chess” - Marcel Duchamp 15:15 Étant donnés

Today on the podcast we are joined once again with Matt Ashworth of nadamucho.com. We talk about #NadaFest and play some music!!!!“Caged” by Hell Mary off Worship Gameshttps://hellmarymusic.bandcamp.com/“The Rack” by B-A the Scribehttps://b-athescribe.bandcamp.com/“Stop The Judge” by Snuff Redux off Besides Youhttps://snuffredux.bandcamp.com/“Spooky, Stony, Barely Over Thirty” by Virgin of the Birds off Secret Kidshttps://virginofthebirds.bandcamp.com/“Futures Come and Go” by Patrick Galactic off Futures Come and Go - Singlehttps://patrickgalactic.bandcamp.com/“Fantomz” by Versing off Nude Descendinghttps://versing.bandcamp.com/“I’ll Show You Dance Good” The Screaming Multitudes off Screaming Multitudeshttps://thescreamingmultitudes.bandcamp.com/“Gonna Puke” by  Downtown off S/Thttps://thisisdowntown.bandcamp.com/Day 1 Friday October 21st 2016https://www.facebook.com/events/1682955948690001/Day 2 Saturday October 22nd 2016https://www.facebook.com/events/1070560442993689/Day 3 Sunday October 23rd 2016https://www.facebook.com/events/1106907322727228/You can find the podcast on iTunes for iOS, Google Play Music, Stitcher and Spreaker for Android.Please support the podcast, donate! Click the button on the side bar.

Daniel talks with Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, co-author with Bill Wright of "Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend." Marcia talks about how the idea arose for the book, which profiles just a few of the unique characters who decided to make the Big Bend region of Texas their home. Marcia shares some interesting tidbits about some of the people featured in the book, and how their personalities were captured in Bill Wright's photographs. Marcia & Bill will present a lecture on the book on Friday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m., at the UTEP Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 116. They will hold a book signing on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 1-5 p.m., at the Westside Barnes & Noble (705 Sunland Park Dr.). For this week's Poem of the Week, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel reads a poem by her sister Frances Hatfield, from her collection "Rudiments of Flight." The poem is "Nude Descending a Staircase."

How Duchamp reinvented what we now call art.Listen NowMarcel Duchamp can be given much of the credit or blame for how the current art situation came to be. His contributions were critical in the development of almost all later are movementsDuchamp painted Landscape at Blainville when he was only 15.Here is an early magazine illustration by Duchamp.  Unlike so many of his followers, Duchamp could actually draw. This early sketch of his brother, Jacques Villon, shows tremendous skill and manages to display motion that will be fundamental in the artist's later masterpieces.  Duchamp's Portrait of Chauvel from 1910 show a clear influence of Fauvism. Sad Young Man in a Train from 1911 represents a tremendous breakthrough for Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase #1 from 1911It was Nude Descending a Staircase #2 from 1912 that really established Duchamp's career. When it was displayed in the Armory show in New York in 1913 the artist became internationally known.Fountain, 1917.L.H.O.O.Q., 1919.The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even was officially declare unfinished by Duchamp in 1923.The artist was associated with the Dada movement. Many of the groups publications can be found here.

In this spur of the moment GBA Extra we get even better acquainted Jen. This summer after dinner Jen was talking about some research she was doing about sleep paralysis which sparked a childhood memory in me. We decided to turn the mic on and share the conversation with the show. We talk about strange sleep states, dreams, memories and writing. We have a false ending and then we come back with some readings and analysis of Jens sleep diary. And the episode is capped with a short story which Jen wrote about "locked in syndrome" which was performed by previous GBA guest Louise at Stand Up Tragedy earlier this year. This story isn't about dreams but it does contain many of the themes of both this episode and of Jen's writing in general. GBA's of the people who are featured or get mentioned: Jen: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-61-jen Louise: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-louise-episodes-1/ Owain: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain Vaughan: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/vman-1/ Chris Goode: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-83-chris-goode Also mentioned: The Podcast with the crazy dream / sleepwalking story is in this episode of the brilliant Risk Podcast: http://risk-show.com/podcast/state-of-emergency/ It's the one called Nude Descending a Staircase by Morgan Bartlett Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ We plugs: JEN! http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk http://twitter.com/jadamthwaite You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

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