{"id":9566,"date":"2016-04-11T20:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9566"},"modified":"2017-11-25T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T13:27:28","slug":"episode-163-david-leopold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-163-david-leopold","title":{"rendered":"Episode 163 &#8211; David Leopold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show #163:<br \/>\nDavid Leopold<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2129\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9566-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=9566-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hirschfeld is an artist who discovered what he wanted to do early on, and works at it his whole life and gets better and better at it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pknot\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9571\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9571\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-163-david-leopold\/218_leop_9781101874974_art_r1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/218_Leop_9781101874974_art_r1-e1460420972735.jpg?fit=440%2C657\" data-orig-size=\"440,657\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LiDE 110&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1400147050&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"218_Leop_9781101874974_art_r1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/218_Leop_9781101874974_art_r1-e1460420972735.jpg?fit=415%2C620\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9571 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/218_Leop_9781101874974_art_r1.jpg?resize=415%2C620\" alt=\"218_Leop_9781101874974_art_r1\" width=\"415\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pknot\/\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">David Leopold<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/110187497X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=110187497X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=7LZWSK4LBJZP2FZX\">The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=110187497X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Knopf), joins the show to talk about the thirteen years he spent working with the great artist <a href=\"http:\/\/alhirschfeldfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Hirschfeld<\/a>, how he wound up running the <a href=\"http:\/\/solowey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Solowey Studio<\/a>, his career curating museum exhibitions, what he learned from following The Grateful Dead, and more! <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen!<\/a>\u00a0And go buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/110187497X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=110187497X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=4AMJLTVTDCVWEJCS\">The Hirschfeld Century<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=110187497X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t collect art; I collect artists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We also talk the trip that\u00a0led Hirschfeld from painting to line art, the way MGM&#8217;s costume department started making the Marx Brothers look more like Hirschfeld&#8217;s drawings of them, one of David&#8217;s biggest regrets (not bringing Al Hirschfeld and Jerry Garcia together), Billy Rose&#8217;s plan to buy Ellis Island and make it a retirement home for millionaires, the fleetingness of artistic reputation, the goals of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, and the wonderful history of the Ben Solowey Studio. <em>BONUS: You get to hear me discuss how I almost quit doing the podcast last week!<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every day, he was faced with a white board that couldn&#8217;t care less about what he&#8217;d accomplished.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2130\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9566-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=9566-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_163_-_David_Leopold.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-guy-who-drew-the-liver-spots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drew Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-slow-learner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jules Feiffer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-138-bill-griffith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Griffith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podchast-parental-guidance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roz Chast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-look-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Gross<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-much-abides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashton Applewhite<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pknot\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9567\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9567\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-163-david-leopold\/dleopold\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?fit=470%2C640\" data-orig-size=\"470,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dleopold\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?fit=455%2C620\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?resize=250%2C340\" alt=\"dleopold\" width=\"250\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?resize=323%2C440 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?resize=455%2C620 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dleopold.jpg?w=470 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pknot\/\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">David Leopold<\/a> is an author and curator who has organized exhibitions for institutions around the country including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, and the Field Museum in Chicago. Internationally, he has curated shows for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and Berlin. He organized the archive of Al Hirschfeld\u2019s work for the artist, visiting Hirschfeld in his studio at least once a week for thirteen years until the artist\u2019s death in 2003. He is now the Creative Director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Hirschfeld Foundation<\/a>. His latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/110187497X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=110187497X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=4AMJLTVTDCVWEJCS\">The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=110187497X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, published by Alfred A. Knopf to coincide with a major retrospective that Leopold curated for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyhistory.org\/exhibitions\/hirschfeld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Historical Society<\/a> has won universal acclaim. <em>The Washington Post<\/em> called it an \u201cinstant classic,\u201d and Amazon selected it for its \u201cTop Books of 2015.\u201d His other books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606991302\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1606991302&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=2RGMQJVGY4TO66M3\">David Levine\u2019s American Presidents<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606991302\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Fantagraphics, 2008); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0810958910\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0810958910&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=G36ZMEBVUPBZL2QM\">Irving Berlin&#8217;s Show Business: Broadway &#8211; Hollywood &#8211; America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0810958910\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>Hirschfeld&#8217;s Hollywood<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0810990520\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Abrams, 2001). He also authored a number of monographs on underappreciated artists for various museums.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Nothing&#8217;s Gonna Bring Me Down<em>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/davidanddavidmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Baerwald<\/a>, used with permission of the artist. The conversation was recorded at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/solowey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studio of Ben Solowey<\/a> in Bedminster, PA on a pair of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on the same setup. Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. Photo of David by me. Hirschfeld drawing of Carol Channing via Knopf&#8217;s publicity page for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/110187497X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=110187497X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=4AMJLTVTDCVWEJCS\">The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=110187497X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show #163: David Leopold &#8220;Hirschfeld is an artist who discovered what he wanted to do early on, and works at it his whole life and gets better and better at it.&#8221; David Leopold, author of The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age (Knopf), joins the show to talk about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-163-david-leopold\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 163 &#8211; David Leopold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,4,1083,40,1183,17,58],"tags":[4181,4182,4187,4184,3080,4180,4191,4197,196,4183,4190,4195,4199,4192,4194,4196,993,4189,1261,4185,1224,353,2161,4198,4186,4193,4188,3092,4017,1295],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-movies","category-music","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-the-drew-friedmanizer","tag-al-hirschfeld","tag-ben-soloway","tag-billy-rose","tag-brooks-atkinson","tag-clifford-odets","tag-david-leopold","tag-david-levine","tag-django-reinhardt","tag-drew-friedman","tag-george-kaufman","tag-gertrude-larence","tag-grateful-dead","tag-irving-berlin","tag-jan-berenstain","tag-jen-bartlett","tag-jerry-garcia","tag-jules-feiffer","tag-julie-andrews","tag-katherine-hepburn","tag-laurel-hardy","tag-lorenzo-mattotti","tag-mark-rothko","tag-marx-brothers","tag-rae-solowey","tag-sj-perelman","tag-stan-berenstain","tag-stephen-kroninger","tag-tony-auth","tag-toulouse-lautrec","tag-woody-allen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-hirschfeld-art-g5i11q19l-1the-hirschfield-century-1.jpg?fit=700%2C634","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2ui","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17718,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-653-david-leopold","url_meta":{"origin":9566,"position":0},"title":"Episode 653 &#8211; David Leopold","author":"Gil","date":"September 10, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 653: David Leopold \"Hirschfeld and Sondheim are two men of the theater who have theaters named for them.\" Curator and archivist David Leopold rejoins the show for a wide-ranging talk centered on the amazing new HIRSCHFELD'S SONDHEIM: A Poster Book (Abrams ComicArts). 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