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Beloved New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores and celebrates his love of taking up new skills in midlife including magic, drawing, boxing, and even ballroom dancing with his adult daughter. Slipping in and out of French, he discusses his recent book Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery with Gloria Groom, the chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago.
SHOW NOTES
Watch the full conversation here (youtu.be/EsOZyzmSvq8) .
Read the podcast transcript (chicagohumanities.org/media/podcast-gopnik/) .
PHOTO: Gloria Groom and Adam Gopnik on stage at the Epiphany Center for the Arts at the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival in May 2023. (assets.chicagohumanities.org/uploads/images/Gopnik_Groom_Screenshot.width-800.jpg)
Adam Gopnik, Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (semcoop.com/real-work)
Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon (womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780375758232)
George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback (semcoop.com/paper-lion-confessions-last-string-quarterback)
Read: Adam Gopnik, Last of the Metrozoids (newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/last-of-the-metrozoids)
Explore: Bruce Nauman, “Clown Torture” (https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146989/clown-torture)
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Beloved New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores and celebrates his love of taking up new skills in midlife including magic, drawing, boxing, and even ballroom dancing with his adult daughter. Slipping in and out of French, he discusses his recent book Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery with Gloria Groom, the chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago.
SHOW NOTES
Watch the full conversation here (youtu.be/EsOZyzmSvq8) .
Read the podcast transcript (chicagohumanities.org/media/podcast-gopnik/) .
PHOTO: Gloria Groom and Adam Gopnik on stage at the Epiphany Center for the Arts at the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival in May 2023. (assets.chicagohumanities.org/uploads/images/Gopnik_Groom_Screenshot.width-800.jpg)
Adam Gopnik, Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (semcoop.com/real-work)
Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon (womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780375758232)
George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback (semcoop.com/paper-lion-confessions-last-string-quarterback)
Read: Adam Gopnik, Last of the Metrozoids (newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/last-of-the-metrozoids)
Explore: Bruce Nauman, “Clown Torture” (https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146989/clown-torture)
Subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-humanities-tapes/id1534976656
Donate now to support programs like this: chicagohumanities.org/donate
Explore upcoming events: chicagohumanities.org
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