Name: 404. Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, c. 1625 by The Jewish Museum
Duration: 5 min 9 s
Description: Listen to a verbal description of this dramatic painting

Listen to a verbal description of this dramatic painting

404. Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, c. 1625

Hear from two artists and an educator about how they use improvisation to engage with art. Read a transcript of this podcast on MoMA's Magazine: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1201

The Art of Making It Up as You Go

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In this episode, Laurie spends time with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi—president and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. One of the leading arguments for AI is that it will save us all time. What will we do with the extra time? Does that freed up time have a moral value? So many questions, too little time. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: https://rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarsh

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In the episode, Laurie Anderson and novelist and artist Tom McCarthy have a wide-ranging dialogue about everything from Sigmund Freud to Super Mario to unravel whether time is just a construct of our minds and what the role trauma and memory play in maintaining it. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Tom McCarthy

Artist Tarrah Krajnak, art historian Jennifer Raab

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On episode 379, NASA and Axiom Space experts discuss the lunar spacesuit Axiom is developing that astronauts will wear when they step foot on the Moon again during the Artemis III mission. 

Houston We Have a Podcast: Commercial Lunar Spacesuits

Curators Scott Allan, Will Hansenm and River Ian Kerstetter.

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When artist DonChristian Jones started at MoMA as the inaugural Adobe Creative Resident, they created a vision for working with young people to share their stories about what art and community meant to them. In the summer of 2024, DonChristian—through their Residency at MoMA, along with the non-profit they run, Public Assistant—and the Lower Eastside Girls Club collaborated on Frequency Gardens, a summer program and radio show. Over the course of a month, eight teens learned how to record and edit audio, conduct live interviews, and tell their stories through art. Four of the teen participants interviewed DonChristian about their collaborative process and what it was like to hear themselves as part of the exhibition.

DonChristian Jones Frequency Gardens Podcast

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On episode 381, two NASA Artemis experts discuss how the agency is preparing future moonwalkers to use new tools to explore the unique science near the lunar South Pole. 

Houston We Have a Podcast: Commercial Lunar Tools and Science

Celebrate Earth Day 2025 with stories from a climate scientist and an architect. Together, they'll discuss how design can be a force for positive environmental change.

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404. Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, c. 1625

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