Ben Luke
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1,919 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Ben Luke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is it right that you, at some point, I mean, obviously you spend time in different parts of the US now, but is it right that you used to go to the Met every Friday?
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Of course.
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Yeah, he's been on this podcast.
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So do you mean that the collection is dominantly figurative or that the combination of collection plus building somehow makes it a space for the figurative?
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Tell me what you mean by it being, because I'm curious about this idea.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world?
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The atom bomb.
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Right.
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So you would have been four years old, right, when the first atom bomb was dropped?
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falling.
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Which writers or poets do you return to?
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it's not a bad bunch to be fair
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oh wow okay right it
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How amazing.
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This is something that seems to me to be a consistent practice of yours because I know you speak Japanese as well, right?
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And you've read books in Japanese as well.
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yeah.
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So tell us about that.
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One of the reasons we asked this question about literature and so on is I'm interested in how learning languages, for instance, might help you develop your art because it must.
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