235: Layering It Up Like a Cake

This week, how do you know — or can you know — when a piece of work will be more than what you thought it would be going into it? Can you predict greatness or is it only available in hindsight? At what point do you call the game if you’re not going to win? Also, a discussion around how appreciating art can often be affected by the room or the way it’s displayed, using the newly reopened East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in DC as an example. Plus, Erin Margaret Allison Rambo is our Photographer of the Week. Links for this episode:On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #ritualMeyerhoff/BeckerGreat Performances: Hamilton's America | 2016 Arts Fall Festival | PBS ArtsMuseum of the Moving ImageLin-Manuel Miranda Monologue - SNL - YouTube'Hamilton' Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyle Raps With President Obama | NBC News - YouTubeBBC Radio 2 - Simon Mayo Drivetime - When Simon met SpringsteenHarry Benson: Shoot First - Movie Trailers - iTunesA Virtual Video Visit with Prints and Photographs | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & PhotosKodak Revives Its Iconic Logo—and Gives It a Little Twist | WIREDKodak's new smartphone puts photos and nostalgia first - Oct. 20, 2016An Interview with Gregory CrewdsonBruce Springsteen - Wings For Wheels - The Making of Born To Run -2005 - YouTubeWild Dogs in ParisRambo Photography | Portfoliothe name's rambo (@rambo) • Instagram photos and videosLeon Bridges (@leonbridgesofficial) • Instagram photos and videos