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The Object · Today · 30 min

The Dead Can Dance

Free tickets are now available for the next live taping of The Object podcast on Sunday, November 15, at 2 p.m. in the historic Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. With special musical guest Chastity Brown, 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me'-style quizzes and prizes, curator conversation, music, and of course storytelling—all about the art and artists of the Harlem Renaissance on roughly its 100th anniversary. Plus, we're opening the museum's Print Study Room after the show for a rare chance to see these artworks in person! These free tickets will go fast—get yours at the Tickets page at artsmia.org for "The Object LIVE! The Renaissance Blues!" Now, onto this week's show: A special chat-show edition about supernatural Japan. As Dr. Andreas Marks, curator of Japanese and Korean art, explains, nowhere else is there such a rich and numerous host of ghosts, demons, and even bewitched household objects that can help or hurt us. We talk about the cultural, religious, even geographic reasons for this, Japan's unique relationship with ghosts and ghost stories, and how we all might benefit from being spirited away, as it were, to a world where the living and the dead are not so clearly defined. You can see some of the artworks discussed in the show, especially the giant screens of playful skeletons, in the new exhibition "Bare Bones" now on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Free tickets are now available for the next live taping of The Object podcast on Sunday, November 15, at 2 p.m. in the historic Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. With special musical guest Chastity Brown, 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me'-style quizzes and prizes, curator conversation, music, and of course storytelling—all about the art and artists of the Harlem Renaissance on roughly its 100th anniversary. Plus, we're opening the museum's Print Study Room after the show for a rare chance to see these artworks in person! These free tickets will go fast—get yours at the Tickets page at artsmia.org for "The Object LIVE! The Renaissance Blues!"

Now, onto this week's show: A special chat-show edition about supernatural Japan. As Dr. Andreas Marks, curator of Japanese and Korean art, explains, nowhere else is there such a rich and numerous  host of ghosts, demons, and even bewitched household objects that can help or hurt us. 

We talk about the cultural, religious, even geographic reasons for this, Japan's unique relationship with ghosts and ghost stories, and how we all might benefit from being spirited away, as it were, to a world where the living and the dead are not so clearly defined.

You can see some of the artworks discussed in the show, especially the giant screens of playful skeletons, in the new exhibition "Bare Bones" now on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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