On March 23, 1960, the poet Frank O'Hara kissed his boyfriend beneath the Calder mobile hanging in the international terminal of what is now JFK. "That's what it always needed," he wrote on the plane, thinking of the Calder and the kiss, "a little history!" This brief teaser jumps off from O'Hara's appreciation of kissing as a form of art appreciation in order to introduce the general theory of relatability that underwrites this show: namely, the idea that the way not to let an aesthetic experience go wasted is to share it with someone else. 

Teaser: The Calder Kiss

A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share. It could be a concert they went to when they first met, a book they've argued over for decades, a song that plays on repeat whenever they get together. The show is devoted to the General Theory of Relatability: the idea that the way not to let a marvelous experience go wasted is to share it with someone else.  Thanks to Greg Stuart for the music, Laura Heffernan for the art, and Kristin Grogan for the big idea. 

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