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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 442 Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson
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The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening.
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Dr Johnson likes the frick? I love the frick! I also loved the tate London(that’s the one with the preraphaelites, right?). When I was there, they had an exhibition of the stop motion figures from Clash of the Titans! There’s a connection with the frick in this: in one of the front galleries there is a nice Tiepolo that depicts Perseus riding on a Pegasus. I bet that’s where ray harryhausen got the idea of fusing the Perseus and Bellerophon myths!
Another great museum is the Prado in Madrid. Many great works, but most of all their collection of Dutch masters, which has my favorite painting, the Garden of Earthly delights. It’s bigger than I ever dreamed. I asked the curator, how much she thought it would sell for if it were auctioned. She told me they had it appraised for insurance purposes and it was deemed literally priceless and cannot be insured!
Another good smallish one was the one in Venice. It had a lot of hieronymous Bosch paintings too.
Another incomparable one is the national one in vienna that has a lot of breughals and some Rothkos. It has a great Egyptology section. They have that little faience hippo you see everywhere. Also, the smaller museum in vienna that used to have the woman in gold remains a very strong museum with other klimts.
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