“I am working very hard, although this morning... I was terrified to see that there was no fog, not even a wisp of mist: I was prostrate, and could see all my paintings done for, but gradually the fires were lit and the smoke and haze came back.” When Monet wrote this in a letter to his wife in 1900, the term “smog” had not yet been coined. But the artist was certainly describing the eerie beauty of polluted fog. In today’s episode, Tori and Emma speak with artist Kim Abeles about her Smog Collectors series and talk to atmospheric scientist Anna Lea Albright about the surprising ties between Impressionism and climate change.
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07/06/24 • 58 min
Art of Interference - Air 5: Smog
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S2E5 SMOG
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TH: Tori Hoover
EV: Emma Vendetta
ML: Maren Loveland
JG: Jennifer Gutman
KA: Kim Abeles
AA: Anna Lea Albright
INTRODUCTION
TH:
Okay, so picture this: A suburban neighborhood. Ranch houses, set far back from the road. Quarter acre lots with trees around houses. Maybe a box shrub or a hydrangea or two. Lots of grass; no sidewalks, no traffic lights. In your mind, what does that picture sound
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