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Drawing Down the Moon
Alcôve
English - August 19, 2022 23:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Religion & Spirituality Spirituality witches nature history architecture atmosphere magic museum otherwordly paris sacred space Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A disc of light, an object of worship, a portal in the vault of night. The moon has always opened up infinite fields of perception, and in a new Hammer Museum exhibition, Drawing Down the Moon, curator and scholar Allegra Pesenti enters those many realms. In our wide-ranging conversation with Pesenti, she traces lunar iconography from across centuries and cultures, expressing the moon’s many aspects: mythical, magical, theological, scientific. Through her scholarship, we encounter Thessalian witches and modern Wiccans, Victor Hugo and 19th century astronomy, and discuss the work of “making the invisible visible.”