Culture Gabfest - That Balloon Dog Didn't Make Itself Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens take a tour the Jeff Koons exhibit at the Whitney Museum with curator Scott Rothkopf, and discuss the myth of the self-made man with Slate's John Swansburg.
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| 1:39.3 | That Balloon Dog didn't make itself addition. |
| 1:42.2 | It's Wednesday October 1st, 2014. On today's show, Jeff Coons has |
| 1:46.1 | been an important American artist since at least the 1980s, now perhaps with a major retrospective |
| 1:51.5 | at the Whitney Museum, he is a canonical American artist. We tore the with a most pernicious and most irrepressible myth, we discussed the self-made man with |
| 2:05.5 | the Slate's own John Swansburg. |
| 2:08.3 | Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. |
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