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🗓️ 12 July 2025
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With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, dinner parties, not knowing the right answers, the joys of eating a hot dog from a street vendor and more. This talk, interwoven with her delightful paintings, is itself an artwork that seems to hold the entirety of life in all its absurd glory.
This episode originally aired Dec 6, 2023.
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0:12.4 | I'm your host, Elise Hume. Art has a simple and profound way of illuminating life and connecting us to the world. |
0:21.0 | In this popular archive talk, artist Myra Coleman does just this. |
0:25.8 | Through talking about her art and practice, she reflects on life, death, dinner parties, |
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