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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#32 Museum of Modern Art

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The biggest surprise behind the revolutionary creation of the Museum of Modern Art is that the characters who put it together were almost as colorful as the art they championed. Tag along as we peek behind the canvas of New York's oldest temple of the avant garde. PLUS: We debut our first Bowery Girl! www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0

Episode 32 of The Bowry Boys, the Museum of Modern Art.

0:04.4

Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.

0:06.0

Hey.

0:07.0

The Bowry Boys is brought to you by eurochipo.com.

0:12.0

Eurochipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.

0:17.0

Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at eurochipo.com.

0:21.8

Hello there and welcome to The Bowry Boys.

0:24.3

This is Greg Young.

0:25.3

Tom is not here with me this week.

0:28.5

We sound a little differently.

0:29.5

We're experimenting with different sound equipment.

0:32.0

We are very glad to have you here for another show and I have a very special surprise for

0:36.8

you.

0:37.8

A very special guest at Bowry Girl.

0:40.4

This is Carrie Herschler.

0:41.9

We're going to start having some special guests to, you know, for special topics.

0:46.5

Carrie is a designer, an artist and is a writer and in fact right now is writing a fiction

0:52.7

novel involving like some of the Rockefellers.

0:55.3

Is that correct?

0:56.3

A fictional Rockefeller character.

0:58.3

A fictional fiction novel.

0:59.3

And also because you're a big aficionado of the Museum of Modern Art, I thought it would

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