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      Some choice morsels from artist billy ocallaghan

      Artist billy ocallaghan discusses Moby Dick and queer representation in museums

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      Curator Q&A: Behind the Scenes of Making History: 200 Years of American Art

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      A group of Salem friends dives into Moby-Dick, slowly

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      Behind the scenes of “76 Days Adrift,” a true shipwreck story screening at PEM

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      PEMcast 39: Behind the scenes of PEM’s new Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture

      The latest episode of the PEMcast looks at the new Korean gallery and how PEM became the first museum in the US to collect Korean art

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      PEMcast Episode 038: Oh, wünderkammer, my wünderkammer

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      PEMcast 37: Conjuring the Spirit World

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      Mediums, Magicians, Makers and the Objects Used to Conjure Spirits

      PEMcast 36: The Book Arts of Moby Dick

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      PEMcast 36: The Book Arts of Moby Dick