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Aug 11, 2026
The Octopus and the Mountain
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Todd HenryHOST
Could you just explain Black Mountain College and talk about why it was so extraordinary?

Andrew DietzGUEST
The, the middle of the last century, from 1933 to 1957, this place, Black Mountain College, existed.

Andrew DietzGUEST
And even though it hasn't been around for a long time, its shadow, or maybe spotlight, the light it sh- cast, let's put it that way, not the shadow, but the light it's cast on the creative world continues to shine.

Andrew DietzGUEST
It's the only defunct college that has a museum still functioning in its name.

Andrew DietzGUEST
This place, which was really a bastion, a centerpiece of avant-garde creativity in America, maybe in the world, in the mid-20th century, existed not in New York, not in LA, i- in Black Mountain, North Carolina, 20 minutes east of, southeast of Asheville.