Working: Kimberly Drew on the Life-Enhancing Power of Art

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🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, host Rumaan Alam talks about the importance of museums with writer and art advocate, Kimberly Drew, whose Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art set her apart as one of the most promising young voices in the visual art world. It also led to a job as social-media manager at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the interview, Kimberly discusses her new book, This Is What I Know About Art, and talks about the role art has played in peoples’ lives during the pandemic. After the interview, June and co-host Rumaan Alam talk about which museums they’re excited to go to when institutions reopen. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com. Podcast production by Cameron Drews If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and
0:03.4	Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live
0:07.8	with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.
0:12.3	Howdy.
0:13.0	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.
0:16.4	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.0	We love having fun.
0:19.0	Excuse me?
0:20.0	Vicks said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh
0:29.0	Please subscribe No subscribe now. I think that there's a way that sometimes museums are seen as scary, but it's not like a trip to the dentist office, it's like the thing that you're scared of is that you might not know.
0:46.0	And so I hope through images, through sound, through different programming that I've done over the years that it helped to
0:54.2	demystify it for those who couldn't imagine themselves in those spaces.
1:08.0	Welcome back to working. I'm your host June Thomas and I'm your other host Raman Alam. Raman this week you spoke with writer and art curator Kimberly Drew, who we just heard from.
1:15.6	I know from previous episodes that you're a keen museum goer. New York's museums and
1:20.9	galleries have finally and slowly started to reopen in recent weeks.
1:25.0	What's the first place you want to visit?
1:28.0	I think that I'll probably go to the Brooklyn Museum first.
1:31.0	It's my local spot and it's one of those great encyclopedic
1:34.9	institutions with a smattering of everything, you know Egyptian art, modern art,
1:39.7	classical art, and it's a place that I could just stroll through happily and lose myself and I've really missed that place.
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