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Every Wednesday, the Rubin Museum of Art presents a meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area. This podcast is a recording of the weekly practice.
 
The National Leprechaun Museum, the first ever attraction dedicated to Irish mythology, opens up a fun and magical world full of fascinating folklore, mythology and enchanting stories.
 
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SpyCast
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Each week, the International Spy Museum will offer a new SpyCast featuring interviews and programs with ex-spies, intelligence experts, and espionage scholars. The SpyCast is hosted by Dr. Vince Houghton, historian and curator at the International Spy Museum. Dr. Houghton specializes in intelligence, diplomatic, and military history, with expertise in the late-WWII and early-Cold War eras. The International Spy Museum in Washington, DC is the only public museum in the U.S. solely dedicated t ...
 
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Sidedoor
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More than 154 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults. But where the public’s view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through the Smithsonian’s side door, telling stories that can’t be heard anywhere else. Check out si.edu/sidedoor and follow @SidedoorPod for more info.
 
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Museum Confidential
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Museum Confidential is a behind-the-scenes look at museums hosted by Jeff Martin of Philbrook Museum of Art and produced by Scott Gregory with Public Radio Tulsa. New episodes every two weeks.
 
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Museum Archipelago
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A tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. Museum Archipelago believes that no museum is an island and that museums are not neutral. Taking a broad definition of museums, host Ian Elsner brings you to different museum spaces around the world, dives deep into institutional problems, and introduces you to the people working to fix them. Each episode is never longer than 15 minutes, so let’s get started.
 
I believe that museums are one of the best ways to discover a place, whether it’s your first time visiting or you’ve lived there your whole life. Join me on this adventure as I get to know the world….one museum as a time. This is a podcast for people who love museums, stories, culture, and exploring the world. In Season 1, the podcast focuses on museums in Iceland. Season 2 explores the museums of Maryland. I’m your host, Hannah Hethmon, and in each episode I visit a different museum to disc ...
 
A treasure trove of ideas in psychoanalysis. History, theory, and psychoanalytic perspectives on a diverse range of topics. www.freud.org.uk
 
The British Museum is famous for its objects, which represent over 2 million years of human history and culture. The objects speak to us thanks to the experts who have helped to tell their stories for well over two centuries. This podcast takes a fresh look at some of the tales that have shaped the Museum’s story – both famous and less well known.
 
A podcast from The National WWII Museum analyzing how World War II has been depicted on film.
 
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It Still Lives
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A journey through Southern Appalachia, one story at a time.
 
Podcast by Hagley Museum and Library
 
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and p ...
 
The National Museum of Australia's audio series explores Australia's social history: Indigenous people, their cultures and histories, the nation's history since 1788, and the interaction of Australians with the land and environment. The series includes talks by curators, conservators, historians, environmental scientists and other specialists.
 
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The Pulse – WHYY
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WHYY serves the community by contributing to the quality of life through education, information, entertainment and inspiration.
 
A collection of interviews and features on topics related to the Norton Simon Museum's exhibitions and collections.
 
A short podcast exploring the people, places, and events that shaped Muskegon, Michigan and beyond. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-horn/support
 
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Black Museum
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Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name “Black Museum” was coined in 1877 by a reporter from “The Observer”, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. It is this museum that inspired The Black Museum radio series, produced in London by Harry Alan Towers. The Black Museum From Jay Hickerson’s “The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All Circulating S ...
 
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BeYourOwnMuse
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Ken Ham is president of Answers in Genesis and cofounder of the 75,000-square-foot Creation Museum. This daily, 60-second audio program is also broadcast on over 950 radio stations.
 
The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast “one of the great archives of the art of our time.” When the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics gave host Tyler Green one of its inaugural awards for criticism in 2014, it included a special citation for The MAN Podcast.
 
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AirSpace
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The National Air and Space Museum contains the largest and most significant collection of air- and spacecraft in the world. Behind those amazing machines are thousands of stories of human achievement, failure, and perseverance. Join Emily, Matt, and Nick as they demystify one of the world’s most visited museums and explore why people are so fascinated with stories of exploration, innovation, and discovery.
 
Conversations with scholars on recent books in Political Theory and Social and Political Philosophy.Image: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris), in the public domain courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
World's foremost museum of photography and cinema located on the historic estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography.
 
A basketball card podcast that discusses the hobby's past, present, and future.
 
The Book, presented by Museum of the Bible, is a unique one-minute podcast that features unusual stories and interesting facts about the bestselling book of all time, the Bible.
 
The Portland Art Museum Podcast is a channel between the Museum and its community. Episodes will be largely decided by the listeners. Have an idea for an episode? Visit pam.to/podcastidea
 
Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from the exclusive programme of Members’ lectures at the British Museum, artfully woven together with interviews and musings. The Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’, but we will definitely encourage you to become a Member if you aren’t already! Interested in becoming a Member? You can find out more at britishmuseum.org/membership. Direct your questions ab ...
 
Diving Board is a show about artists, the art they create, and diving into a wide range of social and cultural ideas. Hosted by Woodmere Art Museum's Director and CEO, Bill Valerio, and Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media. Woodmere Art Museum is dedicated to telling the stories of Philadelphia's art and artists.
 
Famous faces take their best mate, their mum, their neighbour (whoever they want) for an afternoon at a favourite museum or gallery. As well as getting a peek behind the scenes, seeing what makes a museum tick, it's also the starting point for some great conversations about life, the universe and everything. As well as a chance to eat lots of cake in the cafe. Meet Me at the Museum is published by Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, which raises money for museums and galleries throu ...
 
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The Lonely Palette
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Welcome to The Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses, one painting at a time. Each episode, host Tamar Avishai picks a painting du jour, interviews unsuspecting museum visitors in front of it, and then dives deeply into the object, the movement, the social context, and anything and everything else that will make it as neat to you as it is to her. For more information, visit thelonelypalette.com | Twitter @lonelypalette | Instagram @thelonelypalette.
 
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Museopunks
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A Podcast for the Progressive Museum
 
Tracing the histories of antiquities and landmarks that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, India and Pakistan.
 
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Art Palace
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Cincinnati Art Museum presents Art Palace, a podcast where we meet cool people and then talk about art.
 
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Last Seen
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It remains the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: 13 artworks stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Twenty-eight years later, not a single piece in a haul worth half a billion dollars has surfaced. The art, and the thieves who made off with it, remain at large. With first-ever interviews, unprecedented access, and more than a year of investigative reporting, "Last Seen" takes us into the biggest unsolved art heist in history. A joint production from WBUR ...
 
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Invention
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From agriculture to the X-ray machine, Stuff to Blow Your Mind hosts Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the inventions we created, and how they created us.
 
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Museum Chat Live!
Monthly
 
 
Official Soundcloud page of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage and the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum. Welcome to the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage Podcast series, “Army Medicine History”. The opinions and statements of the speakers featured on this podcast are not necessarily the views of the U.S. Army or the U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. The goal of this podcast series is to share the story of Army Me ...
 
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ARTMinded
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The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, presents “ARTMinded," a podcast produced by the Museum that offers new perspectives on the works in the Museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions. Each episode will provide unusual viewpoints that enhance and sometimes even challenge our customary engagement with artworks.
 
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GirlSpeak
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Art, history, and contemporary culture with a girls’ eye view. Brought to you by Girl Museum, the first and only museum in the world dedicated to celebrating girls and girlhood. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/girlspeak/support
 
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Empty Frames
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Welcome to Empty Frames: an art crime experience. Season 1 is about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist: In the early hours of March 18th, 1990, two thieves posing as police officers were admitted into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In 81 minutes they stole 13 pieces of artwork, among the paintings stripped from their frames were works by Vermeer, Degas, and Rembrandt.Season two takes a deeper look at all angles of art crime. Find season one on Stitcher Premium.
 
Podcast by Heritage Museums & Gardens
 
The Bay's number one arts and culture podcast! with Kate Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz
 
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STCM Podcasts
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The official podcasts of the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre: Museum Chat Live! and One Hour in the Past. For footnotes to episodes, please visit stcatharinesmuseumblog.com/podcasts
 
World War I created many of the political, cultural, and economic fault lines of the world today. Produced by the MacArthur Memorial, this podcast explores the causes, the major players, the battles, the technology, and the popular culture of World War I.
 
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Bletchley Park
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Bletchley Park is the home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict. The site is now a museum and heritage attraction, open daily.The Bletchley Park Podcast brings you fascinating stories from Veterans, staff and volunteers on the significance and continued relevance of this site today.
 
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Podcast | Bad at Sports
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Contemporay art talk without the ego
 
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Museum Way
Monthly
 
Located at 600 Museum Way in Bentonville, Arkansas is Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In this new podcast series, we’re sharing all the ins-and-outs of the museum, from the galleries to the trails, the architecture and more—you’ll learn the museum way of Crystal Bridges.
 
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JFK35
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, inspired a generation that transformed America. But not everyone knows the stories behind the man - his experiences as a young servicemember in World War II, how he wrote some of his most memorable speeches, what sparked him to set the country on a path to the moon. Join Matt Porter and Jamie Richardson of the JFK Library Foundation as they dig into the archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston and inte ...
 
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Bruce Springsteen just turned 70. But The Boss shows no signs of slowing down. In his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, there’s a new exhibition at the Monmouth County Historical Association. It’s called, quite simply, SPRINGSTEEN: HIS HOMETOWN. On this episode we talk all things Bruce with Eileen Chapman, Director of The Bruce Springsteen Arch ...…
 
Hold on to your wallets! There are 11 Panini basketball releases that are projected to come out before the end of the calendar year. In this episode, Kyle gives an overview of the release calendar and offers up a few thoughts about Hoops and Prizm along the way.By waxmuseum.
 
At the time when the worlds are closer together, when the veil is drawn back, when things go walking abroad, the leprechaun museum are looking about to do something special.Veiled in a new immersive theatrical tour from the National Leprechaun Museum from the 24th on Oct to the 2nd of Nov. Strictly +18. Tickets at https://leprechaunmuseum.ticke ...…
 
Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are violent or dangerous lie at the heart of stigmatizations of the disease. This talk focus on how these modern-day American conceptualizations of schizophrenic patients as violent emerged during the civil-rights era of the 1950s-1970s in response to a larger set of conversations about race. It in ...…
 
The season for existential crises continued this past month when the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announced that a working group had proposed a new definition for museums and that said definition would be voted on at the ICOM Triennial in Kyoto, Japan. We followed the many conversations that unfolded over the next few weeks, and aske ...…
 
Black Museum, the - 32 Caliber Bullet, theBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Exhibition Trailer: By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque, on view October 4, 2019–March 2, 2020.By Norton Simon Museum.
 
This month Hugo and Sushma are talking to Belinda Crerar about how the Museum uses changing displays in Room 3 to respond to what is happening in the world today. We also raid the archives to chart the history of children’s visits to the Museum, and as Object of the month Venetia Porter talks about the Salcombe Hoard – an impressive discovery o ...…
 
Foundries have long been important to Muskegon's industry. Today we examine one of the earliest and most successful of these, Rodgers Iron Works. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-horn/support…
 
International Coffee Day by Museum of the BibleBy Museum of the Bible.
 
To the extent that there was a Communist capital of humor in the last half of the 20th century, it was Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Situated in a valley of the Balkan mountains, the city prides itself on its unique brand of self-effacing humor. In 1972, the Museum House of Humor and Satire opened here, and the city celebrated political humor with people ...…
 
Primate specimens collected more than 80 years ago—such as gibbons from wild populations in Southeast Asia—are still being studied by researchers today to learn about the diversity of modern primates and help conservation efforts. Curator Robert Voss explains why these collections are irreplaceable and how the American Museum of Natural History ...…
 
Date recorded: 24 August 2019. ABC RN’s Big Ideas presenter Paul Barclay and expert panel discuss true crime and popular culture.By Paul Barclay, Hedley Thomas, Rachel Franks, Felicity Packard, Hedley Thomas.
 
Donald J. Trump has been active in business and media for fifty years, but his scandal-ridden presidency has overshadowed most of his history. Levi Fox's Pop-Up Atlantic City Trump Museum is an attempt to remedy this oversight for one specific chapter of the Trump story: his four Atlantic City casinos and the impact their short tenures and bank ...…
 
This week Maysoun shares an account of going to the Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz. We also talk about gemstones and lighting. The Continuous Thread: Celebrating Our Interwoven Histories, Identities and Contributions SOMA Pilipinas Events Litquake Schedule G E M S…
 
This is Ken Ham, whose ministry has produced the family friendly Answers Bible Curriculum. Here at Answers in Genesis, we constantly hear that creationists can’t be scientists. But tell that to all the full-time PhD scientists we employ! They studied hard and have done great research—they’re scientists! But then we’ll often hear, “Well, they’re ...…
 
Cars have played a fundamental role in changing our modern lives — where we live, where we work, the shape of our communities, and how we spend our money and free time. But along with new opportunities, cars have also brought negative impacts — air pollution, traffic deaths, congestion, and road rage, just to name a few. On this episode, we exp ...…
 
Episode No. 415 features artist Lari Pittman. The Hammer Museum recently debuted "Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence," a retrospective of Pittman's nearly forty-year career. The exhibition reveals Pittman's engagements with America's history and with issues and subjects that have been core to our history and identity, including landscape ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, on a mission to call the church back to the authority of God’s Word. If I asked you who first described natural selection, you might say Charles Darwin. Actually … no. Darwin got his ideas mostly from a scientist named Edward Blyth. Parts of Origin of Species are nearly direct copies of Blyth’s work! But there’s a big differenc ...…
 
40 years after the opening of the JFK Library, we speak with its first two directors, Dan Fenn and Chuck Daly, as they recall the events that led up to the Library’s dedication and their work establishing its mission. We will also speak with current Library Director Alan Price about his vision for the future of the Library.…
 
The Rubin Museum of Art presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience, and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. If you would like to attend Mi ...…
 
The Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hu ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, encouraging all churches to start their thinking with God’s Word. We constantly hear that creationists can’t be scientists. But there are many creationists today doing great science. And many great scientists in the past were also creationists. Science today stands on the shoulders of scientists who believed God’s Word! Take, f ...…
 
Smell connects us to memories of the people and the places of our lives. But what if it could connect us to a past we’ve never experienced? That's the goal for one team of artists and scientists who used DNA to try to revive the scent of a flower extinct for more than a century.By Smithsonian Institution.
 
For the month of October, It Still Lives is bringing you spooky tales of the supernatural from right here in Rabun County, Georgia. Join us each week from now until October 29th for tales about witches, haints, and jack-o-lanterns! This week features an excerpt from storyteller Don Patterson of Hiawassee, Georgia.…
 
Leading art critic, writer and Editorial Director of Frieze Magazine, Jennifer Higgie, presents a talk with artist Daniel Silver and artist and curator of The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought Simon Moretti in response to the exhibition, expanding on the themes of translation, transformation, temporality and metaphor, key ...…
 
This discussion aims to consider the connection between sexual abuse, offending behaviour and the vitality of psychotherapy. In November 2015, George Osbourne announced the closure of the largest women’s prison in Europe, HMP Holloway. The recently published book, The End of the Sentence, Psychotherapy with Female Offenders, edited by Pamela Wi ...…
 
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Guantanamo defense attorneys Alka Pradhan and Ben Farley, who represent one of the 9/11 defendants, Ammar al-Baluchi.By SpyCast.
 
How much is a dollar worth? It depends who you ask, when, and where. Economic psychologists have a concept called ‘money illusion,’ which suggests that people are not actually very good at judging the value of money in the context of changing monetary conditions. Distinguishing between the perceived value of money and its “objective” market val ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, on a mission to strengthen the global church with God’s Word. Matthew Maury was an officer in the US Navy who loved the Lord … and his Word. Now, he read in Psalm chapter eight about the “paths of the seas.” He believed God’s Word, so he set out to find these paths. What he discovered were the ocean currents. His discovery revo ...…
 
Following last week’s discussion of “From Here to Eternity,” tune in this week to hear WWII veterans Clarence Herbert Weatherwax and Nolan Albarado discuss their experiences at Schofield Barracks during the attack on Pearl Harbor.By The National WWII Museum.
 
This is a live recording of the panel discussion that took place on October 12, 2019 to celebrate the opening of Women Breaking Boundaries. The discussion was led by Ainsley Cameron, Curator of Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art and Antiquities.Panelists:Kathryne Gardette - Artist and Arts Integration SpecialistTT Stern-Enzi - Film Critic ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, often interviewed on radio and TV on the Bible’s reliability and authority. A scientist named Alfred Wegener usually gets credit for the idea that there was originally just one continent. But he was mocked because he didn’t really have an explanation of how the continents moved. But many years before, a scientist, Antonio Snide ...…
 
Sure, caskets and coffins are essentially just containers for the dead -- but we stash far more than our corpses inside them. We also pour in a generous helping of human anxiety, hope and magical thinking. In this three-part exploration of Invention, Robert and Joe consider the nature of caskets and look at some of the stranger designs from hum ...…
 
This week we accidentally explore the best restrooms of the Bay Area while we're trying to answer a listener question about YBCA's new open call for curatorial proposals. All the music in this episode is by No Vacation Need to pee? Just download this app. What could go wrong? Oakland Museum of California announces $85 million improvement plan E ...…
 
The Rubin Museum of Art presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience, and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. The guided meditation begins a ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, author , speaker , and blogger on science and the Bible’s reliability. When Jesus talked about the coming judgment, he said it’d be like the days of Noah. People would be eating, drinking, and getting married, not realizing judgment was coming. Now, many Christians today say Noah’s flood was just a local flood. But, what does t ...…
 
Every culture, workplace, group, and family has its norms — its standards, the way things are done. Norms govern everything from relationships to driving to making coffee. But how does something become the norm? On this episode, we explore how things and behaviors become “normal,” and what happens when we challenge those norms. We hear stories ...…
 
Episode No. 414 features curators Scott Allan and Emily A. Beeny and artist Xiaoze Xie. Along with Gloria Groom, Allen and Beeny are the co-curators of "Manet and Modern Beauty," on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum through January 12, 2020. It is the first exhibition to examine the work Manet made near the end of his short life (he died at 51), ...…
 
A conversation about the nature of Political Theory, some major issues and debates, relationship to other fields, and the status and worth of the canon. Featuring Jeanne Morefield (University of Birmingham) and Ryan Hanley (Boston College).
 
In this episode, Kyle opens with some thoughts on Immaculate Collegiate and contemplates his purchasing strategy for the coming year. Then, he examines StockX's move into the sports card marketplace.By waxmuseum.
 
Arriving in Paris in 1919 for the Peace Conference, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson made it clear that he believed Italy entered World War I in a Machiavellian spirit of “cold-blooded calculation.” Italy’s leaders disagreed – arguing that their participation in the war was about liberation and self-determination. Regardless of the argument, like ...…
 
This is Ken Ham, author of a book sent to most pastors in America called Gospel Reset. Some people think of Noah’s ark as a small boat, overcrowded with animals. That’s because of the silly illustrations we’ve all seen. But the biblical ark was nothing like that. It was a massive ship—over five-hundred feet long and eighty-five feet wide. Now, ...…
 
October 2019 “Gas masks are to be taken” so ends what seems a rather mundane government memo dated the 2nd of August 1939. It importance becomes apparent when you discover this was the Move Order sent to the staff of the Government Code and Cypher School. As Hitler threatened Poland it seemed another war in Europe was inevitable, so it was deci ...…
 
Black Museum, the - Blood Stained Brickbat, theBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Black Museum, the - Brass Button, theBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Black Museum, the - Can (Or Tin) Of Weed Killer, aBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Black Museum, the - Canvas Bag, theBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Black Museum, the - Car Tire, theBy Entertainment Radio.
 
Black Museum, the - Center Fire Bullet, theBy Entertainment Radio.