Hello lonely Palatiers. This is Mark Chrysler, host of the Constant, a history of getting things wrong, and the latest humbly honored honoree to sit in tomorrow's hosting chair.

At the Constant, I tell stories about mistakes, misapprehensions, and failures

through time. Usually those stories are historical, oftentimes they're science-based,

but every once in a while I get to talk a bit about art, an area as prone to fascinating

screw-ups and errors as any other human endeavor, really.

This story was from just before I joined Hub and spoke and I'm recording this intro just after finally meeting face to face with my wonderful collective cohorts.

I can't imagine there's any more table for me to set, so let me try to get out of my own way here, but not before thinking

tomorrow for her generosity in bringing this story here, and thinking you for sticking around

to hear it.

I hope you enjoy. Hub and Spoke.

Audio Collective.

Let's

Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa.

It's not actually the most straightforward question,

come to think of it, because there is a sense in

which nearly everyone has seen the Mona Lisa but you know what I mean right like have you

seen it waited in the line that inevitably forms at the Louvre that eventually puts you in the room with the surprisingly small and unimposing painting.

Have you really seen it?

All right, simple enough.

Now a slightly harder one.

Have you seen the Venus to Milo?

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