The Week in ArtNational Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi

Starling Ballet Mystery

46:49–47:29 · 40s

Schama recounts witnessing a breathtaking starling murmuration in Rome and a physicist’s admission that science still can’t fully explain the phenomenon.

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