Kelly & Eli Smiling Through the Apocalypse - Ep. 7 /// Literature, Art and Pandemic Escapism...

Schedule

Spring 2021 Season - Days/Times Forthcoming

Nation Building with Antonio Pacheco / A bi-weekly look at the state of public architecture in the United States, including interviews, news items, reading suggestions, and historical/theoretical frameworks for understanding public architecture more broadly.

Grounds with Amanda Ugorji / Inter-generational interviews with artists, designers, and planners that ask what existential questions they have been working through lately and how they make their decisions.

Still Standing with Eytan Levi and Ben Hoyle / Interviews with experts about the renovation of Soviet mass housing.

Conversations on Care with Ana Miljački

15 May Kelly & Eli

Kelly & Eli Smiling Through the Apocalypse - Ep. 7 /// Literature, Art and Pandemic Escapism...

Another week, another smile around the apocalypse. This week we chat about the role of art and literature in imagining and coping with catastrophe, moving from Don Delillo's sprawling novel Underworld, through Brueghel's painting The Triumph of Death and into Bocaccio's Decameron.

Joining us in conversation is Ross Bressler, Professor of Art History at the Berklee College of Music, who also kindly shared various online resources for art consumption in pandemic times (and otherwise...)

http://mixlr.com/wawdradio/showreel/kelly-eli-smiling-through-the-apocalypse-ep-7

The Decameron – Full Text – Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700/23700-h/23700-h.htm

Peter Breughel - Triumph of Death - Prado Museum, Madrid

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-triumph-of-death/d3d82b0b-9bf2-4082-ab04-66ed53196ccc

Guide to Finding Great Art in Isolation – WashPost – March 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/so-youre-stuck-at-home-heres-a-guide-to-finding-great-art-while-in-isolation/2020/03/18/ccacd222-67c0-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

Getty Art Challenge – My Modern Met Article (April 2020)

https://mymodernmet.com/recreate-art-history-challenge/

Factum Arte

https://www.factum-arte.com/

Art Newspaper Podcast – “Can New Tech Recreate the Hand of an Old Master”

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/podcast/can-technology-recreate-the-hand-of-a-great-painter