Claude d'Anthenaise / Photo by Antoine Doyen
ALCÔVE
Alcôve is a new podcast that explores the nature of sacred space. In a temple, an artist’s room, or a scholar’s library, we feel atmosphere: the presence of the devotion and art, study and ritual, that have taken place within them over decades or centuries, and whose traces permeate their walls. Alcôve enters into auratic places to explore aesthetics, spirituality, history, and magic—those qualities we perceive in sacred space, and which open up that space within us. By talking with their keepers, descending into their foundations, and researching their objects and texts, we try to understand what is in the atmosphere of these extraordinary places.