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A Crash Course in Medieval Armor at Nashville’s Frist Museum

The museum, with no collection of its own, wins by focusing on variety in a stellar Art Deco setting.

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Exterior of the museum.

Photo courtesy of the Frist Museum. Photo: John Schweikert

Planning my visit to Nashville, Huntsville, Birmingham, and points in between began with a wedding invitation. Spencer Klavan, one of the two grooms, has an inspiring, erudite podcast, Young Heretics. It’s about the Western literary canon from Herodotus and Plato to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Caesar’s own account of hopping the Rubicon in his “civil war,” to T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis. I think I’ve listened to all 115 episodes so far.

He lives in Nashville with his now-husband, who works for the Daily Wire, the media company based there. I enjoy going to weddings. His was lovely.

Brian T. Allen

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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