Patricia Lockwood on Meeting the Pope

<p>In June, the pope invited dozens of artists to Rome for the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Museum’s contemporary art collection. Patricia Lockwood, the author of <em>Priestdaddy</em> and a contributing editor at the <em>LRB</em>, was one of them. She tells Tom more about the surreal experience and why irony, in the words of Pope Francis, is ‘a marvellous virtue’.</p><br><p>Find further reading on the episode page: <a href="https://lrb.me/popepod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/popepod</a></p><p>Read John Lanchester’s pick from the archive: <a href="https://lrb.me/lanchesterpick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/lanchesterpick</a></p><p>Subscribe to the <em>LRB</em> here: <a href="https://lrb.me/now" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/now</a></p><br><p>Find out about the <em>Colour Revolution</em> exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colour-revolution-victorian-art-fashion-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colour-revolution-victorian-art-fashion-design</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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