On Time and Asparagus

Museum Secrets

English - December 28, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 4.79 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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The Director of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Xa Sturgis, takes a walk around the museum's Still Life Gallery, pondering over time and asparagus.

Still Life of Fruit and Flowers, Clara Peeters – View the painting

Still Life of Asparagus, Adriaen S. Coorte – View the painting

If you want to take a closer look at the paintings he discusses in this episode, you can view them at the links above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets

Producer: Lucie Dawkins
Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Xa Sturgis

About Museum Secrets: The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Join us every weekday for 3 weeks, from 28 December onwards, for a daily dose of cheer.