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Author Interview: Jeannie Marshall's "All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel"

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Jeannie Marshall about her lovely book, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel.

What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context―but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for.

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall’s relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it’s an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defense of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look.

About the author:

Jeannie Marshall is a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002. A nonfiction author, journalist, and former staff features writer at the National Post in Toronto, she contributes articles to Maclean's and the Walrus and has published literary nonfiction in The Common, the Literary Review of Canada, Brick, and elsewhere.

Please enjoy this bonus episode, featuring my discussion with Jeannie. Be sure to grab your copy of All Things Move from Bookshop.org, below. If you prefer Amazon, that link is below as well.

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Author Interview: Patrick Bringley's "All the Beauty in the World"

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed earlier this summer with author Patrick Bringley, all about his fantastic book about his time as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His book, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, is out now.

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.

In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.

About the author:

Patrick Bringley worked for ten years as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to that, he worked in the editorial events office at The New Yorker magazine. He lives with his wife and children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. All the Beauty in the World is his first book.

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Episode #118: Modern Love--Marina Abramović and Ulay

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love.

Today: it’s our season finale, and my absolute favorite (tear-jerking!) story of the season: the epic love-and-lost story of Marina Abramović and Ulay.

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Episode #117: Modern Love--Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Part 2

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:00:00 -0000

Today: we’ve re-recorded and updated our original Season 1 double-header on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Check out their story here. Note that this is Part 2— you can access Part 1 here.

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Episode #116: Modern Love--Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Part 1

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: we’ve re-recorded and updated our original Season 1 double-header on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Check out their story here. Part two is coming up in two weeks.

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Episode #115: Modern Love--Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: it’s one of the most collaborative, creative couples of the century— meet Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

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Author Interview: Annie Cohen-Salal and "Picasso the Foreigner"

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed earlier this spring with author Annie Cohen-Salal, all about her wonderful new book, Picasso the Foreigner (translated by Sam Taylor).

Before Picasso became Picasso—the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France’s leading figures—he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services—the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso’s art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma—as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he generously enriched and dynamized the country’s culture like few other figures in its history. This book, for the first time, explains how.

Please enjoy this bonus episode, featuring my discussion with Annie. Be sure to grab your copy of Picasso the Foreigner from Bookshop.org, below. If you prefer Amazon, that link is below as well.

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Episode #114: Modern Love--Remedios Varo and Gerardo Lizarraga

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: let’s get to know artists Remedios Varo and her first husband, Gerardo Lizzaraga.

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Author Interview: Michael Finkel on "The Art Thief"

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I absolutely loved this new book by author and journalist Michael Finkel, and I didn't want to wait any longer to share it with you. Finkel's latest book, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, is about the world's most prolific art thief-- and believe me, his story is stranger than fiction.

If you’re anything like me, you love art-- and you also love a good and unbelievable true story about bad things happening to art, too. So you may have encountered the remarkable story of Stéphane Breitwieser, the world’s most prolific art thief, in Finkel’s 2019 article “The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief” (GQ). Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, carried out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years, stealing more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.

The book is out on June 27-- listen now for our in-depth conversation and preorder your copy now!

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Episode #113: Modern Love--Lee Miller and Man Ray (Season 13, Episode 6)

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:21:06 -0000

Today: we’re homing in on the early years of Lee Miller, model and photographer, and her years spent with surrealist Man Ray.

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Episode #112: Modern Love--Robert Rauschenberg, with Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns (Season 13, Episode 5)

Mon, 29 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: we’re homing in on the love affairs of Robert Rauschenberg, moving from Cy Twombly and on to Jasper Johns—a series of relationships that lasted only briefly, but whose effects on modern art are still felt to this day.

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Episode #111: Modern Love--Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso

Mon, 15 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: we’re discussing the lives and loves of Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar.

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Episode #110: Modern Love--Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight (Season 13, Episode 3)

Mon, 01 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: we’re enjoying the story of one supremely confident couple, incredibly supportive of one another and individually talented, two makers who epitomized the explosion of creativity that was the Harlem Renaissance, and who helped shape American art. Meet Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight.

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Episode #109: Modern Love--Anni and Josef Albers (Season 13, Episode 2)

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Today: we’re highlighting a powerful artist couple who taught at a landmark place at a singular moment in history—Anni and Josef Albers.

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Bonus: Enjoy "The Art of Crime"

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hey friends, I have a show that I’d like to share with you today. It’s right up my personal alley--so much so that I made a similarly-themed season of ArtCurious a few years back. Today it’s a pleasure to introduce you to The Art of Crime.

The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts--created, written, and narrated by Gavin Whitehead. Gavin notes that he has had an interest in things criminal and artistic for as long as he can remember, and this podcast is the perfect intersection of those two fascinations. The show is now in its second season and is all about several artists who have committed, attempted, or at least been implicated in an assassination. This episode today is all about the painter David-Alfaro Siqueiros.

A diehard Communist, Siqueiros fought in the Mexican Revolution in the mid-1910s. Over the next several decades, he would revolutionize the theory and practice of muralism in Mexico and abroad, largely inspired by his radical politics. In 1940, his political convictions led to a less honorable enterprise when he spearheaded an assault on the home of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky as he and his family slept in their beds.

Enjoy-- and I’ll be back to you next week with an all-new episode of ArtCurious.

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Episode #108: Modern Love--Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning (Season 13, Episode 1)

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Listeners, I heard you—a bunch of self-admitting hopeless romantics who wanted to hear more about people bound by attraction, fascination. By love. Though there are examples of romantic and sexual relationships between creators that are sprinkled throughout art history as we know it, it’s true that we have the most information about relationships from folks who lived in the last century—because we have greater access to documentation recording the lives of these people, and because, as the 20th century progressed, people—artists, perhaps especially—became more vocal about their relationships, less inhibited. Modern artists, artists especially from the first half of the 20th century, lived their art, and their relationships, out loud-- writing about them, talking about them, and sometimes even creating works of art about them.

Today: let’s enjoy learning about the surrealist life and loves of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning.

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ArtCurious News This Week: March 31, 2023

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:00:00 -0000

Hello ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 31, 2023.

This week’s stories:

CNN: Scientists identify secret ingredient in Leonardo da Vinci paintings

NBC News: Unknown Jackson Pollock painting found in police raid in Bulgaria

CNN: Rare print of Hokusai's 'Great Wave' sets new auction record

AP News: Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest

New York Times: He Lost a Courbet Fleeing the Nazis. His Heirs Are Getting it Back.

CNN: Dusty painting hidden behind door turns out to be Brueghel 'masterpiece'

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ArtCurious News This Week: March 24, 2023

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:00:00 -0000

Hello listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 24, 2023.

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Early After Plans for ‘Guerilla Art Installation’ by Climate Activists Leak

CNN: Scientists confirm long held theory about what inspired Monet

ArtNews: New Investigation Finds More than 1,000 Objects in Met’s Collection Linked to Antiquities Trafficking

The Art Newspaper: Chicana muralist Judith Baca to receive National Medal of Arts in White House ceremony

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Author Interview: Damian Dibben and "The Colour Storm"

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. Instead of doing our typical Friday news cast, I’m sharing a recent discussion I had with author Damian Dibben about his latest novel, The Colour Storm. Set in the cutthroat art-world of Renaissance Venice, The Colour Storm is about the search for a new color. The daring young painter, Giorgione, is in the fight of his life to beat his rivals and find it first. It’s a searing tale of creation, ambition, rivalry and passion at one of the most seismic turning points in history, and it’s filled with characters both familiar and new, and is full of unexpected turns. It’s an excellent read and one that art lovers are sure to enjoy.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #35, Rivals-- Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning vs. Their Husbands

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Anyone familiar with Abstract Expressionism will tell you that this art movement was one where all the insiders or practitioners were more closely involved than many other art movements. Such close confines also made for some serious rivalries, too. But there were other artists who were more intimately involved with one another and their artistic process-- they were married, or were lovers. Such is the case with both Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning --both of whom married women who were incredible artists in their own right. Interestingly, and sadly, when these two spouses are mentioned, it’s very rare that we are treated to sincere commentary just about their works of art. More often than not, we are, instead, given explanations of how these women measure up to their (admittedly more famous) husbands, and are relegated either to a supporting role, or just plain seen as not good enough in comparison. Why is it that such talented women continue to have their posthumous careers and stories marked and shaped by their husbands?

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ArtCurious News This Week: March 10, 2023

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 10, 2023.

This week’s stories:

The Art Newspaper: Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece in 'historic event'

The Art Newspaper: Notre Dame to reopen in December 2024

ArtNews: University Faculty Vote Against Plan to Deaccession Paintings at Brauer Museum of Art

The Art Newspaper: Archaeologists discover ancient tunnel at Great Pyramid of Giza that may lead to King Khufu’s tomb

ArtNews: Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Roman Era Mini-Sphinx Statue

ArtNews: Climate Activist Group Protests at Rembrandt’s Night Watch at Rijksmuseum

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ArtCurious News This Week: March 3, 2023

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

New York Times: High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever

The Art Newspaper: The must-see exhibitions in 2023: from the biggest ever show of Vermeer paintings to a history of hip-hop

The Art Newspaper: The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues

The Art Newspaper: Revealed: Vermeer's patron was, in fact, a woman—and she bought half the artist’s entire oeuvre

ArtNews: New Moai Statue Found on Easter Island, Opening the Possibility of More to Be Discovered

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ArtCurious News This Week: February 17, 2023

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! Jennifer here with your short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. This is ArtCurious News this Week and I’m ready to roll. Today is Friday, February 17, 2023.

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening

The Art Newspaper: Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs

The Art Newspaper: Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to LACMA

ArtNews: New Valentine’s Day Mural by Banksy in British Town Is Partly Removed Hours After Going on View

ArtNews: Four Foundations Commit $5 M. to Create Latinx Art Curatorial Positions at 10 US Art Institutions

ArtNews: Indiana School Proposes Sale of $15 M. Georgia O’Keeffe Painting, Triggering Bitter Pushback

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Author Interview: Julia Voss and "Hilma af Klint, a Biography"

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:00:00 -0000

I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Julia Voss on her fascinating book, Hilma af Klint, a Biography, which was released recently in its English translation.

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe.

But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting, af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich declared themselves the inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a nonrepresentational mode, producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the history of the institution.

Despite her enormous popularity, there has not yet been a biography of af Klint—until now.

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ArtCurious News This Week: February 10, 2023

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

The Art Newspaper: Huge earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastate heritage sites including 2,000-year-old castle

The Art Newspaper: Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin, new report says

The New York Times: Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush?

ArtNews: Hobbyist Finds Renaissance-Era Pendant Connected to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

AP News: Visitors can see famed Florence baptistry’s mosaics up close

AP News: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

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BONUS: Listen to "Who ARTed"

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:00:00 -0000

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’m sharing an episode of the fun, all-ages art podcast, Who ARTed. Who ARTed is a show created by an art teacher with the goal of making art history fun and interesting for listeners of any age, so if you're looking for a show that you can enjoy with the kids, Kyle shares fun facts about everything from Mona Lisa to Mario. Today I’m sharing his recent mini-episode about Salvador Dalí, but be sure to check out Who ARTed’s daily mini-episodes this season, which are covering 64 diverse artists in anticipation of their annual Arts Madness Tournament. Listeners can vote for their favorite artworks in a bracketed tournament where every matchup simply asks "Which is better?" This can spark some great conversations about how we evaluate art.

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ArtCurious News This Week: February 3, 2023

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, February 3, 2023.

This week’s stories:

BBC: Mystery portrait likely to be Raphael masterpiece

The Guardian: Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt

The Daily Mail: Don't use the word 'MUMMY'... it's offensive to ancient Egyptians: Museums stop using age-old expression out of 'respect' for 3,000-year-old dead

ArtNews: Christie’s Ordered to Return Painting That Was Confiscated During World War II to Proust Heirs

The Art Newspaper: Musée d’Orsay acquires Caillebotte masterpiece thanks to €43m donation from LVMH

The Daily Mail: 'Don't take spell check for granite!' NYC officials are left red-faced by typo misspelling the name of artist Georgia O'Keeffe on plaque at Grand Central's newly unveiled $11B LIRR terminal

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 27, 2023

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Heirs Sue Guggenheim to Recover Storied Picasso Painting, Citing ‘Wrongful Possession’

WESH Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art placed on probation by American Alliance of Museums

The Guardian: Frederick McCubbin painting defaced with Woodside logo in protest at Art Gallery of Western Australia

ArtNews : Mexican Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Pre-Hispanic Mayan Settlement

ArtNews: A Mass Burial of Decapitated Roman Remains Discovered in England

ArtNews: Gilded Warrior’s Tomb Discovered During Construction of an Expressway in Romania

ArtNews: Archaeologists Uncover Intact 52-Foot-Long Ancient Papyrus from 50 BCE

Smithsonian: Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Mummified Crocodiles

ArtNews: 1,800-Year-Old Roman City Unearthed in Luxor, Egypt

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Episode #107: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Plautilla Nelli (Season 12, Episode 8)

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Another day, another nun! But Plautilla Nelli’s story is an interesting one, involving a great lost-and-found twist, and the opportunity to discuss how some artists can be “forgotten” and then rediscovered. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Plautilla Nelli: Lost and Found.”

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 20, 2023

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

New York Times: After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments

Chicago Sun-Times: Ex-Art Institute payroll manager stole more than $2 million from museum: indictment

New York Times: After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks

The Guardian via YouTube: French mayor asks Madonna for loan of painting that once hung in city's museum

Le Figaro: Amiens : la maire supplie Madonna de lui prêter un de ses tableaux

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ArtCurious News This Week: January 13, 2023

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023.

This week’s stories:

New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.

New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing a Painting of Muhammad

The Art Newspaper: New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman

The Art Newspaper: Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening

Financial Times: Marina Abramović on Anne Imhof

ARTnews: Viral TikTok Joke About the Mona Lisa Being Stolen Generates Mass Confusion

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Episode #106: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Properzia de’ Rossi (Season 12, Episode 7)

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today’s subject is a major one: Properzia de’ Rossi, a Renaissance sculptor who was (gasp!) female. Why was this a big deal, why was de’ Rossi a rarity? We dig into the details and learn about the highly masculinized world of sculpture. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Properzia de’ Rossi: The “Rare Female Sculptor.”

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Episode #105: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Levina Teerlinc (Season 12, Episode 6)

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Finding a signed, confirmed work by Levina Teerlinc isn’t an easy task, as we know of no surviving works with her signature. But we do know that Levina Teerlinc was almost single-handedly responsible for the popularization of the miniature portrait, and obviously she was good at it: Queen Elizabeth I commissioned her portrait from Teerlinc no less than eight times. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Levina Teerlinc: Tiny Tudor Treasures.”

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ArtCurious News This Week: December 16, 2022

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, December 16, 2022.

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Hamas Says 63 Roman-Era Tombs Found in the Gaza Strip

ArtNews: Roman Treasure Stolen from British Museum After Metal Detectorists Forfeited it by Law For Safekeeping

New York Times: For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over

ArtNews: London Police Barge Into Gallery After Provocative Sculpture Is Mistaken for Person in Need of Help

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Curious Callback: Jennifer Higgie's "The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits"

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Last year, I enjoyed a fantastic live conversation on Fireside with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jennifer. It only feels right to revisit her book, and our conversation, in connection with our current season about women artists. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I do.

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Episode #104: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": St. Catherine of Bologna (Season 12, Episode 5)

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Artist-nuns are not rare: just look at the example of the famed Hildegard von Bingen, long praised as one of the first-known female artists. Today, we’re uncovering the story--and the myth--behind St. Catherine of Bologna, a mystical member of the Poor Clares whose artistic talents may (or not!) have been exaggerated. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “St. Catherine of Bologna: The Patron Saint of Artists.”

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Author Interview: Paul Fisher's "The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World"

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0000

Welcome to a bonus episode of ArtCurious featuring my interview with Paul Fisher about his latest book, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World.

An iconic American artist, John Singer Sargent was also a complicated and mysterious man. While presenting himself as a reserved, buttoned-up businessman, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the possessors of new money and old, while reserving his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themes—and on nude drawings of male models that he kept to himself and that were left undiscovered until after Sargent’s death.

In his groundbreaking new biography, the scholar Paul Fisher offers a vivid life of the buttoned-up artist and his unbuttoned work. Sargent’s nervy, edgy portraits exposed illicit or dark feelings in himself and his sitters—feelings that London, Paris, and New York high society was fascinated by yet kept at bay. Masterfully researched and stunningly written, The Grand Affair brings back to life one of our most beloved artists and solidifies Fisher as a master of the genre.

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Episode #103: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Marietta Robusti (Season 12, Episode 4)

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Lots of women artists have gotten a head-start in their careers thanks to their families. Fathers, in particular, often led their remarkable daughters to find great success in the arts, and Marietta Robusti was no exception: her dear old dad was none other than Tintoretto, a Venetian master. But did Tintoretto’s adoration of his daughter hold her back from achieving greater heights? From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Marietta Robusti: Like Father, Like Daughter.”

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ArtCurious News This Week: November 18, 2022

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

Black Trustee Alliance: The Art Museum Trustee Survey

Ithaka S + R: Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022

ArtNews and the Art Newspaper: Banksy Comes Out On Top in EU Trademark Challenge, Allowing Him To Stay Anonymous

Casa Buonarroti: The restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Inclination in Casa Buonarroti

International Council of Museums: Statement: Museums and Climate Activism

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ArtCurious News This Week: November 11, 2022

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

New York Times: Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records

New York Times: Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Unusual Sculptures, Dies at 91

The Egyptian General Authority for Tourism Activation: The discovery of a rocky tunnel in the area of the Temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria

ARTnews: Thousands of Looted Benin Bronzes Scattered in Museums Worldwide Are Now Listed in an Online Database

ARTnews: Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia

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Episode #102: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Diana Scultori (Season 12, Episode 3)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: One of the earliest-known female printmakers in Europe, Diana Scultori (sometimes identified as Diana Ghisi or Diana Mantuana), Diana was a grand marketer of her own work, even requesting a particular “Papal Privilege” to sell and promote her engravings while living in Rome. Rock on, Diana! From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Diana Scultori (Diani Ghisi): With Papal Privilege.”

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ArtCurious News This Week: November 4, 2022

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:00:00 -0000

This week’s stories:

The Guardian: Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show

The Guardian: Protesters who targeted Girl with a Pearl Earring jailed by Dutch court

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ArtCurious News This Week: October 28, 2022

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, FINALLY back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, October 28, 2022.

This week’s stories:

The Art Newspaper: Jo Bonger: the woman who made Van Gogh famous as one of the greatest artists of all time

New York Times: Damaged by an Explosion, the Canvas Emerged a Gentileschi

The Art Newspaper: Biggest ever Vermeer show gets bigger: Rijksmuseum announces further loans for blockbuster exhibition

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Episode #101: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Fede Galizia (Season 12, Episode 2)

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: She might not have had the backing of royal patrons or the fancy aristocratic connections that Levina Teerlinc and Sofonisba Anguissola had, but Fede Galizia still did well for herself with commissions. And she was an innovator, to boot, often noted as the first-known Italian artist to have completed a still life painting at a time where the genre was not yet fashionable. From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Fede Galizia: Early Still-Life Adopter.”

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Author Interview: Hugh Eakin's "Picasso's War"

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:00:00 -0000

We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Picasso’s War, a recent book by journalist Hugh Eakin. Today we think of New York as the center of the twentieth century art world, but it took three determined men, two world wars, and one singular artist to secure the city’s cultural prominence. Pablo Picasso was the most influential and perplexing artist of his age, and the turning points of his career and salient facets of his private life have intrigued the world for decades. However, the tremendous feat of winning support for his art in the U.S. has long been overlooked—until now.

In PICASSO’S WAR: How Modern Art Came to America, Eakin details the never-before-told story of how a single exhibition, years in the making, finally brought the 20th century’s most notorious artist U.S. acclaim, irrevocably changed American culture, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis.

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Episode #100: Bits of "Breaking Barriers": Lucia and Elena Anguissola (Season 12, Episode 1)

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:00:00 -0000

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today, I’m sharing a story about the family of one of the most well-known female artists of the Renaissance. You might know a bit about Sofonisba Anguissola--but how much do you know about her sister, Lucia? And how about another Anguissola daughter? From Breaking Barriers: Women of Renaissance Europe, please enjoy “Lucia Anguissola (and Elena Anguissola): In Their Sister’s Footsteps.”

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #20: Sofonisba Anguissola: Great (Woman) Artist

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:30:00 -0000

Hi listeners! I’ve been traveling over last month, and am preparing to hit the road again, and to begin sharing new episodes to your feed next week. So, things have been a bit busy over here. So while we put the finishing touches on next week’s episode, I’m re-airing one of my old favorites from the first season of the podcast. And guess what? It’ll prepare you nicely for the next season. Wink wink. Today, I’m returning to share the story of Sofonisba Anguissola, one of the most prominent female artists of the Italian Renaissance. I hope you enjoy--and back to you next week. Until then, stay curious!

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Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Split the Art World

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Here’s a preview from a new podcast, Death of the Artist, that explores a tragedy in the art world. For more than 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples: Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death, taking a closer look at how she might have fallen out of the window of Carl’s 34th floor New York apartment, and the following trial which has divided the art world since 1985.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #67-- The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Romaine Brooks

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:30:00 -0000

Hi listeners! As I mentioned last time on ArtCurious, I’m traveling this month and so I am re-airing some older episodes for you to enjoy here once again. In celebration of our recent “Cherchez La Femme” season, I’m choosing three of my favorite episodes on female artists-- Today, I’m returning to share the story of Romaine Brooks, a one-of-a-kind painter with a truly fascinating story. I hope you enjoy--and I’ll be back with you soon. Stay curious!

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #61--The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Angelica Kauffman

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:30:00 -0000

Hi listeners! I’m traveling this month and so I am re-airing some older episodes for you to enjoy here once again. In celebration of our recent “Cherchez La Femme” season, I’m choosing three of my favorite episodes on female artists-- and, hint hint, the last of these episodes refers directly to our upcoming season, so keep your eyes peeled for that one next month. Today, though, I’m returning to tell the story of Angelica Kauffman, one of the prized painters of the 18th century. Enjoy--and thank you for listening!

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Author Interview: Gabrielle Selz's "Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis"

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:30:00 -0000

We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Light on Fire, the first comprehensive biography of the life and work of the abstract artist Sam Francis by award-winning author Gabrielle Selz. Drawing from exclusive interviews and private correspondence, including Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin, Selz traces Francis’s extraordinary and complex life.

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Author Interview: Eden Collinsworth's "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait"

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:30:00 -0000

I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Eden Collinsworth on her fascinating book, What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait. This extraordinary work of narrative non-fiction traces the remarkable history of Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic portrait: The Woman with an Ermine, from its original creation, including the fascinating story of its subject, Cecilia Gallerani, and on to its mysterious disappearance for 250 years after which it emerged in the hands of an aristocratic Polish family. Now on display in Krakow, the painting was exiled in Paris, and kept hidden from the Nazis by a brave housekeeper. These defining moments in history comprise a portrait of Europe’s past as vivid and complex as the painting itself.

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ArtCurious News This Week: August 12, 2022

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0000

This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is August 12, 2022.

This week’s stories:

Horniman Museum & Gardens: Horniman to return ownership of Benin bronzes to Nigeria

NBC News: Woman swindled elderly mother out of art worth $140M using ‘psychics’ who claimed it was cursed, police say

ArtNews: Archaeologists Rebury ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Ancient Roman Villa in England One Year After Its Discovery

Getty Museum: Why Would We Rebury Ancient Sites?

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ArtCurious News This Week: August 5, 2022

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0000

This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is August 5, 2022.

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Author Interview: Ruth Millington's "Muse"

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:30:00 -0000

We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. I recently enjoyed a conversation with the acclaimed art historian, critic, and author Ruth Millington, all about her new book, Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces . Muse follows the fascinating true stories of thirty incredible muses—and their roles in some of the world’s most iconic artworks.

Please enjoy this bonus episode, featuring my discussion, via Zoom, with Ruth Millington. Be sure to grab your copy of Muse from Bookshop.org, below. If you prefer Amazon, that link is below as well.

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ArtCurious News This Week: July 29, 2022

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:00:00 -0000

Hi there, everyone. It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this, as a gentle reminder, is in addition to the ArtCurious episodes you know and love and gets you up to date on the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Okay, let’s go.

This week’s stories:

Artnews: Archaeologists Unearth Roman Mosaic in Rural British Town

Artnews: The First 750-Year-Old Medieval Shipwreck Was Discovered Off the Coast of England

Artnews: The ‘Indiana Jones of Art’ Receives Priceless Lost Relic Containing Jesus’ ‘Blood’ in Package On Doorstep

Artnews: Activists Glued Themselves to Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ in Latest Climate Protest

The Observer: Museum Director Responsible for Seized Basquiat Collection Has a Previous History of Discovering So-Called Lost Art

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Episode #99: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Gertrude Stein (Season 11, Episode 8)

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:00:00 -0000

In Season 11 of ArtCurious, we’re highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, for our season finale, we’re discussing Gertrude Stein, a writer and art collector whose world-famous Paris salon was a meeting place for several giants of Modernism: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Suzanne Valadon, and many more.

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ArtCurious News This Week: July 15, 2022

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:00:00 -0000

Hi there, everyone. It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this, as a gentle reminder, is in addition to the ArtCurious episodes you know and love and gets you up to date on the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Let’s get to it.

This week’s stories:

ArtNews: Maurizio Cattelan Faces Plagiarism Lawsuit Over Banana Duct-Taped To Wall

ArtNews: Art History Professor Denies That She Authenticated Disputed Basquiats Seized By FBI

ArtNews: Modigliani Sketches Discovered Beneath Painting of Nude Woman

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Episode #98: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Rose Valland (Season 11, Episode 7)

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0000

There’s a phrase in the French language that goes, “Cherchez la femme.” In translation, it means “find the woman,” or “look for the woman,” and typically it’s derogatory, a phrase used as an explanation for the reasons why a man may be behaving badly. Cherchez la femme, some say, meaning that “woman troubles” are assumed to be at the core of any man’s real problems. But I like the idea of appropriating the phrase “cherchez la femme” to mean that we’re going to look for the women who made things right in art history, who bolstered and brought attention to some big-name artists.

Welcome to season 11 of ArtCurious, where we’re highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, I am so excited to share with you the life of Rose Valland, a great World War Two hero who personally helped save thousands of works of art from being destroyed or lost forever.

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ArtCurious News This Week: July 8, 2022

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:00:00 -0000

Hi there, everyone. It’s Jennifer, your friendly art history podcast purveyor. And I wanted to try something new this summer. I’m going to be releasing short-form, super-casual episodes every Friday to share some of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is in addition to the ArtCurious episodes you know and love and gets you up to date on the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. So let me be your guide to this week in Art History. Welcome to ArtCurious News this Week!

This week’s stories:

The Art Newspaper: ‘The Benin Bronzes are returning home’: Germany and Nigeria sign historic restitution agreement

The Art Newspaper: Constable painting rehung at National Gallery after protestors glue themselves to frame

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Episode #97: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Anna Whistler (Season 11, Episode 6)

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

This season on ArtCurious, we're highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, you know her face, but you might not know her name, or much about her life—meet Anna Whistler, the mother of American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

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Author Interview: Kevin Townley's "Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again: Buddhist Wisdom Reflected in 26 Artists"

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Want a cool, fun, and funny book about art? How about one about Buddhism? Just want a great read? You’ve got all of it covered with Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again: Buddhist Wisdom Reflected in 26 Artists. In this book, Kevin Townley leads you to, invites you in, and sometimes springs upon you, the perennial wisdom in the worlds of artists from Artemisia to Hilma af Klint to Marilyn Minter. (All 26 artists are women.) This book is a mad riot of interconnections: art, Buddhism, mandala principle, spiritual pursuits, growing up goth in the 90s, the theories of Marshall McLuhan, and a mongoose–to name but a few.

Meditation teacher, filmmaker, writer and art savant Kevin Townley turns his unique gaze upon 26 artists and magnifies the power and meaning of the five Buddhist wisdom energies through explorations of their work. Rather than trying to “explain” these energies, he reveals them to you in familiar visual language while, of course, pushing the boundaries of what you might have thought you saw at first glance.

Beautifully written and hilariously disarming, Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again vibrates with lucid insight into society, history, and establishment, while teaching you a lot about meditation and Buddhism along the way. In exploring the practice, life, and work of these through the lens of the five wisdom energies, you come away with a deeper understanding of yourself, the world, and the true dharma that transcends culture and religion—and a profound gratitude for anyone really willing to look.

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Episode #96: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Johanna Van Gogh (Season 11, Episode 5)

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Welcome to season 11 of ArtCurious, where we’re highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, I am so excited to share with you the life of Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the woman who single-handedly made Vincent van Gogh, her brother-in-law, a household name.

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Episode #95: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art-- Gala Dalí (Season 11, Episode 4)

Mon, 30 May 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Welcome to season 11 of ArtCurious, where we’re highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, we’re getting to know Gala Dalí, the notorious wife, muse, and unflappable supporter of the most iconic Surrealist in history.

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Author Interview: John Higgs's "William Blake vs. The World"

Tue, 24 May 2022 16:42:00 -0000

What a great conversation I had recently with John Higgs about his new book, William Blake vs the World! Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition, and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper’s grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts people from all corners of society—a rare inclusive symbol of human identity.

With 30 integrated illustrations throughout the book, William Blake vs the World is a beautiful, wild adventure into unfamiliar territory. John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into fascinating context, and although the journey begins with us trying to understand Blake, we will ultimately discover that it is Blake who helps us to understand ourselves.

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Episode #94: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Elizabeth Siddal (Season 11, Episode 3)

Mon, 16 May 2022 13:00:00 -0000

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BONUS: A Little Curious #11--The Cone Sisters

Mon, 09 May 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Welcome, ArtCurious listeners, to our bonus series, A Little Curious. A Little Curious provides you with short and sweet bonus content about art history in between our normal episodes, and a couple of times in the middle of Season 11, I’ll pop in here to share some shorter stories about some other amazing women who worked to spread the love of art. I had a long list of ladies whom I wanted to showcase in this season, but I ultimately chose eight of them for my full episodes, but now I get the chance to give you a little peek into the lives of a few others.

So today, it’s time to get a little curious about Claribel and Etta Cone.

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Episode #93: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Berthe Weill (Season 11, Episode 2)

Mon, 02 May 2022 13:41:00 -0000

Welcome to season 11 of ArtCurious, where we’re highlighting the lives and work of the women who supported some of the world’s favorite artists. Today, meet Berthe Weill, an art dealer who made many artists famous, including some of the biggest names of the 20th century.

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Episode #92: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art--Dolores Olmedo (Season 11, Episode 1)

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:01:07 -0000

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Author Interview: Barbara Bloemink's "Florine Stettheimer: A Biography"

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Recently I interviewed art historian, curator, and museum director Barbara Bloemink, who shared the backstory of one of the most fascinating artists of the early 20th century: American artist Florine Stettheimer.

Florine Stettheimer was a feminist, multi-media artist who documented New York City’s growth as the center of cultural life, finance, and entertainment between the World Wars. During her first forty years, spent mostly in Europe, Florine Stettheimer studied academic painting and was aware of the earliest modernist styles prior to most American artists. Returning to New York, she and her sisters led an acclaimed salon for major avant-garde cultural figures including Marcel Duchamp, the Stieglitz circle, and numerous poets, dancers, and writers. During her life, Stettheimer showed her innovative paintings in more than forty of the most important museum exhibits and salons. She also wrote poetry, designed unique furniture, and gained international fame for the sets and costumes she created for the avant-garde opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Stettheimer’s work was also socially progressive: she painted several identity-issue paintings, addressing African American segregation, Jewish bigotry, fluid sexuality, and women’s new independence.

Florine Stettheimer: A Biography presents one of the first comprehensive readings of Stettheimer’s art. Barbara Bloemink establishes Stettheimer’s place as one of the twentieth century’s most significant and progressive artists and examines why her unique work remains relevant today.

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Bonus: ArtCurious Announcements--New Season + TRAVEL WITH ME!

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Hi everyone! We’ve got a few brief announcements for you. Here’s the quick recap of today’s episode:

Season 11 is coming on April 18! Subscribe and don’t miss it.
We’re doing virtual and in-person events this summer and fall. Email me or connect with me on social media with your venue suggestions, and/or tag or contact your favorite venue on social media to alert them to your suggestion!
Finally, we are traveling to FRANCE this summer. You are invited to join me in the French Riviera to enjoy all things Modernism. Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Chagall… so many big-name artists who flocked to the French Riviera for that gorgeous sunlight and joie de vivre. We’re spending a glorious week in Nice and I want you to come with me! Visit our partners at Like Minds Travel—or see our events and travel page—for all the details.

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BONUS: Jennifer on The Pickup Shot from Subgenre: Season 2 - The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Hi listeners! If you’re into art and into movies, then I’ve got a special treat for you. I recently featured on a bonus episode, “The Pickup Shot,” for the Subgenre podcast, hosted by Josh Dasal (and truth be told, if the name wasn’t a dead giveaway: he’s my husband). In this episode, we chat about all the art in one of the artsiest films of the past two decades, The Thomas Crown Affair, from 1999.

Want more movies, and more of me and Josh? Be sure to subscribe to Subgenre, and I’ll be guest-hosting a full-length episode of Subgenre, releasing in April— the theme of this season is “Charming Thieves,” and the movie I’ve chosen is a personal (and Dasal Fam) favorite. And you can listen to me chat about a French submarine film NOW, on Subgenre’s Season 1, Episode 3: "Le chant du loup (The Wolf's Call).”

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Author Interview: Claudia Fontaine Chidester's "Trusted Eye"

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:00:00 -0000

I recently had the good fortune to chat with Claudia Fontaine Chidester, whose latest book, Trusted Eye: Post-World War II Adventures of a Fearless Art Advocate, is available now. Trusted Eye is a compelling narrative of an American wife and mother finding her place amid the rubble of war-torn Germany. Virginia Fontaine fought continually for recognition—as a woman, a photographer, an art curator, and, perhaps most importantly, a liaison between beleaguered German artists and the outside world. Through journals, letters, and photographs, she recorded her uniquely intimate perspective on this period, amid an ever-changing constellation of artists and friends. Fontaine documented her life from a young age: her struggles at Yale Art School, her year as a newlywed in the British Virgin Islands, and her employment in a munitions factory. Later, she helped the Jewish underground in Europe; traveled with gallerists throughout Germany, Switzerland, and France; tangled with the Monuments Men; and experienced the international reach of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist pursuits. Essays by art experts Graeme Reid and Dorothea Schöne illuminate Fontaine's early years in Milwaukee and her impact on German art culture in the early postwar years. Trusted Eye is both a biography and a visual almanac for an intricate slice of the twentieth century.

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Live on Fireside: Lilianne Milgrom's "L'Origine"

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. In this conversation from January 2022, I spoke with Lilianne Milgrom, a Paris-born, internationally acclaimed artist and award-winning author. She holds two degrees from Melbourne University and an associate degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She exhibits her artwork around the world and is the recipient of multiple awards and residencies. In 2011, she became the first authorized copyist of Gustave Courbet’s controversial painting L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World) which hangs in the Orsay Museum in Paris. Milgrom spent a decade researching and writing L’Origine, her debut novel, all about Courbet’s incredible painting—as well as Milgrom’s own personal experience of copying the work. L’Origine has snagged no less than six literary honors, including the Publishers Weekly 2021 US book award for Best Adult Fiction.

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Live on Fireside: Jeffrey H. Jackson's "Paper Bullets"

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. In this conversation from early January, I spoke with professor Jeffrey H. Jackson to discuss his latest book, Paper Bullets, about the incredible artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore--two women who risked their lives to defy the Nazis. It’s an awesome real-life tale of using subversive tactics to disrupt Hitler’s crew--and you’re not going to want to miss it. I hope you enjoy listening in as much as I enjoyed recording this ep.

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Episode #91: Art Fact and Fiction: Are There Hidden Messages in Leonardo's The Last Supper (S10E08)

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this controversial subject: are there hidden messages in Leonardo's The Last Supper?

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Episode #90: Art Fact and Fiction: Did Van Gogh Only Sell One Painting? (S10E07)

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this controversial subject: was Van Gogh a completely failed artist with only one sale to his name?

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Live on Fireside: Laura Morelli's "The Stolen Lady"

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 14:00:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. In this conversation from early December, I spoke with Laura Morelli, a USA Today bestselling author and art historian who writes amazing historical novels involving the art world. We discussed her background in art history, how she writes and structures her novels, and get into some of the nitty gritty on her latest book, The Stolen Lady, a book about the Mona Lisa that takes place in both the Italian Renaissance and in france during WWII. It is not only a fascinating and engrossing read, but the conversation with Laura herself was absolutely lovely, too--and I hope you enjoy listening in.

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Episode #89: Art Fact and Fiction: The Problem of Michelangelo's Women (S10E06)

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:00:00 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re circling back to one of our earliest episodes, which we’ve updated and re-recorded, to discuss this controversial subject: was Michelangelo a bad artist, unable to properly depict the female body?

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BONUS: "Curious Talk" with Jennifer and Josh Dasal

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Wow, we haven’t done one of these in a while… Welcome to a session of “Curious Talk,” a bonus episode recording between ArtCurious host Jennifer Dasal and her fellow podcaster/producer husband, Josh Dasal (Subgenre). It’s a chance to get a deep dive on the many goings-on, behind the scenes, with both ArtCurious and Jennifer. Topics include: Jennifer’s big career pivot; how the show comes together; some hints about upcoming episodes; traveling with Jennifer; and how podcasts sustain themselves financially. Come for the chatter, stay for the questions about… dinner? (And hopefully we’ll do these discussions more than once every three or four years.)

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Episode #88: Art Fact and Fiction: Were the Middle Ages an Artistic Wasteland? (S10E05)

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:00:00 -0000

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Live on Fireside: Jennifer Higgie's "The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits"

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. On our November 1 live event, I had the great pleasure of speaking with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jennifer.

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Episode #87: Art Fact and Fiction: Is Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring a Maid in his Household? (S10E04)

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:06:43 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this controversial subject: is the woman featured in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring a maid from his household?

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Live on Fireside: Thomas Negovan's Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. On our Oct. 25 live event, I had the great pleasure of speaking with author, artist, and musician Thomas Negovan about his new book, Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism. This gorgeous, swoon-worthy coffee table book uncovers the often-overlooked metaphysical elements of Mucha's Le Pater series and also delves into themes of the Divine Feminine and Mucha's own metaphysical practices.

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Episode #86: Art Fact and Fiction: Are Georgia O'Keeffe's Paintings References to the Female Body? (S10E03)

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 11:10:00 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this controversial subject: Are Georgia O'Keeffe's floral paintings direct references to the female body?

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Episode #85: Art Fact and Fiction: Did Michelangelo Paint the Sistine Ceiling Alone, on his Back? (S10E02)

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this fascinating theory: did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling all alone, while lying on his back?

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Live on Fireside: Molly Peacock's "Flower Diary"

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:25:00 -0000

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fir esi de, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. On our Oct. 11 live event, I had the great pleasure of speaking with author and poet Mary Peacock about her new book, Flower Diary--and what a delight she—and this book— are!

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Episode #84: Art Fact and Fiction: Is "Mona Lisa" Really Leonardo in Drag? (S10E01)

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:56:04 -0000

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this fascinating theory: Is the Mona Lisa really just a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci in drag?

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The Latest Updates from ArtCurious!

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:29:00 -0000

Hi, everyone! Jennifer here with a few little announcements: Season 10 begins THIS Monday, October 11th. Yay!

Also beginning Monday: LIVE bonus shows on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform. On Oct. 11, author and poet Mary Peacock will chat with us about her new book, Flower Diary--grab your copy now and join us and share your questions and thoughts by using this link for Fireside.

Join our limited virtual tour of Michelangelo's Florence: Friday, November 5th at 7:30 PM Eastern. Tickets and further details on our website, here.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #17: The Casino of the Spirits

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Venice-- it's the most serene and beautiful city in Italy, and possibly the whole world. But Venice at night-- all darkened and quiet-- takes up the most space in my imagination. I seriously love the depictions of Venice as enigmatic, shadowy, and even dangerous. All of this lends Venice this air of inscrutability and mystery. And over time, locals and visitors alike have reveled in this sensation as fodder for myth-making and storytelling. Some stories really stick, lasting for centuries and becoming embedded into the city itself, through its buildings, monuments, and specific locations. And there’s one building that has had plenty of legends built around it. This particular elegant structure had an illustrious past, having once been a meeting place where Italian Renaissance artists discussed their craft, caroused, and gambled. But it’s also the location where relationships soured, crimes were committed, and death inevitably followed. Today, some people won’t even enter this particular building because it is feared to be haunted, cursed… or both.

Today we're calling back to an episode of the first season of ArtCurious to talk about another potentially cursed locale in Venice, Italy: the so-called Casino of the Spirits.

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BONUS: ArtCurious + Queen's Fine Art

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Today, it’s another very special episode of ArtCurious! This time we’re chatting about the side of the art world that you rarely see. We’re going behind-the-scenes with James Quirk from Queen’s Fine Art to talk art shipping, Brexit, how to get involved in the logistics of the art world, and the strangest thing Queen’s has ever managed.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: The Wild and Wonderful World of Weegee

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In this “Curious Callback” episode, we’re revisiting one of our favorite weirdos—Weegee!— whom we featured in Episode 5, alongside Andy Warhol. Today, Weegee gets his full due with a deep dive into his life and work.

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BONUS: ArtCurious + My Modern Met's Top Artist Podcast: Artist Making an Impact

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Today, it’s a very special episode of ArtCurious! We’re joining forces with the minds over at My Modern Met, and their new podcast, Top Artist, to discuss four of our favorite impactful artists in art history.

This is the second half of our conversation— the first half is over on Top Artist’s podcast feed, so go over there and download that episode first, and then come back here to complete the conversation.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: A Little Curious #5: Disastrous Inspiration behind Munch's The Scream?

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Welcome to a “Curious Callback” of A Little Curious, a series of special episodes that will provide you will short and sweet bonus content about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history. A Little Curious will publish in our season's "off" weeks. Enjoy!

This week’s topic: the disastrous inspiration behind Munch's The Scream?

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Episode #83: Cursed Art: The Tomb of Tutankhamun (Season 9, Episode 7)

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re ending our season with one of the most (purportedly) cursed archaeological finds: the Tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

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A Little Curious #10: Are You A Little Curious... About "Breaking Barriers?"

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Are you a little curious about my audio course, “Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe”? You’re in luck! Here’s a little update and sneak-peek for those of you who want to know more— and a big thank you to those already registered!

About Breaking Barriers: This is a 21-day course, broken up into daily episodes that are no longer than 10-15 minutes. And naturally, there are no pesky term papers or final exams to worry about-- just cool art history content that you won’t find anywhere else.

I’ve no doubt that the names Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo already mean something major to you-- and not just as mutant reptiles with rad martial arts skills. You know these artists as some of the biggest names in Renaissance art who created some of the most iconic works of art of all time. Looking closer, though, and you’ll find another commonality: they are all male artists. What about the great female makers of the Renaissance -where, and who, are they? So I’ve created this 21-day course--and a course correction, really-- through Avid.FM, where you can explore the lives and works of 20 women artists, from the familiar (like the eye-opening stories Sofonisba Anguissola and Marietta Robusti), to the names you may have heard once or twice (like the highly-successful Levina Teerlinc and Properzia de’ Rossi), to the practically unknown-- who’s Anastasia, you may ask?

Like the best episodes of ArtCurious, you’ll get the satisfaction of learning about the Renaissance in depth, and with a greater capacity for understanding the limits and barriers to women seeking to work professionally in one of the most colorful eras of western history. You’ll become familiar with artists you’ve probably never heard of, all of whom made an incredible mark on art history.

Are you in? Sign up right now for “Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe” at avid.fm/jennifer for the low price of just $21.99.

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Episode #82: Cursed Art: Edvard Munch's The Dead Mother (Season 9, Episode 6)

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with a deep dive into a tragic painting by a tortured artist: Edvard Munch’s The Dead Mother.

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A Little Curious #9: Voluptuous Venuses

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:07:11 -0000

Surprise! We’re re-introducing our short-form series, “A Little Curious,” which will give you sweet snippets of bonus content on the “off” weeks between our normal episodes. In today’s episode, we’re going deep into sculpture. More specifically, ancient figurines of women--nice, rounded ladies-- and why they are so voluptuous. It’s time to get a little curious about body positivity, ice ages, making babies, and ancient sculpture.

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Episode #81: Cursed Art: Velázquez's Rokeby Venus (Season 9, Episode 5)

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with the ArtCurious debut of one of the greatest Spanish painters of all time—and his controversial painting that, some say, has driven people mad: Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus.

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A Little Curious #8: Cave Paintings Beyond Europe

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:02:44 -0000

Surprise! We’re re-introducing our short-form series, “A Little Curious,” which will give you sweet snippets of bonus content on the “off” weeks between our normal episodes. In today’s episode, we’re continuing our exploration of cave paintings, but we’re moving beyond France and Spain to tackle the oldest artworks in the world, found in Indonesia (and is the world’s oldest drawing from South Africa?).

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Episode #80: Cursed Art: Saint-Gaudens's Adams Memorial, and "Black Aggie" (Season 9, Episode 4)

Mon, 31 May 2021 11:49:57 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with a highlight of American Renaissance sculpture with an “unauthorized” copy that chills many visitors: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Adams Memorial, and the so-called “Black Aggie.”

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Surprise! Join Our Audio Course!

Wed, 26 May 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Today we’re thrilled to announce that I’ve created an audio course for those looking to explore the world of Renaissance Europe through the eyes of the women artists who thrived there. This course is called “Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe,” a 21-day course, broken up into daily episodes that are no longer than 10 minutes. And naturally, there are no pesky term papers or final exams to worry about-- just cool art history content that you won’t find anywhere else.

In this course, you'll get the satisfaction of learning about the Renaissance in-depth and with a greater capacity for understanding the limits and barriers to women seeking to work professionally in one of the most colorful eras of Western history. You'll become familiar with artists you've probably never heard of, all of whom made an incredible mark on art, but unlike traditional ArtCurious episodes, you'll be getting more content on a more frequent basis. In fact, you'll be getting an episode every day for three weeks. But just because you're getting a daily influx of information doesn't mean that it will be overwhelming because each episode will only be up to 10 minutes in length. You'll get to enjoy fun, information-packed audio that won't take a big bite out of your day.

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A Little Curious #7: A Reintroduction, and Cave Paintings

Mon, 24 May 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Surprise! We’re re-introducing our short-form series, “A Little Curious,” which will give you sweet snippets of bonus content on the “off” weeks between our normal episodes. In today’s episode, we’re jumping into cave paintings, often deemed the oldest of the old in art history--and while cave paintings sound, well, basic at the outset, we’re going to discover today why they are actually cool.

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Episode #79: Cursed Art: Venice's Palazzo Dario (Season 9, Episode 3)

Mon, 17 May 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with an episode I nearly wrote four years ago, all about a long-cursed palace on Venice’s Grand Canal, inspiring to both Ruskin and Monet: the Palazzo Dario (Ca’ Dario).

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Episode #78: Cursed Art: Landseer's Man Proposes, God Disposes (Season 9, Episode 2)

Mon, 03 May 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with a maddening, and potential murderous, painting by Edwin Landseer, deemed Man Proposes, God Disposes.

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Episode #77: Cursed Art: The Terracotta Army (Season 9, Episode 1)

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0000

In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re beginning with one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the late 20th century: the grand funeral complex of Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, known as the “Terracotta Army.”

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BONUS: ArtCurious Announcements--New Season, Book Tour, and YOU

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0000

Hi everyone! We’ve got a few brief announcements for you. Here’s the quick recap of today’s episode:

Season 9 is coming on April 19! Subscribe and don’t miss it.
We’re seeking venues for virtual and in-person events for a (much belated!) book tour. Email me with your suggestions, and/or tag or contact your favorite venue on social media to alert them to your suggestion!
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Curious Callback--Episode #54: True Crime/Fine Art: Otto Dix and the Plot to Kill Hitler (Season 6, Episode 1)

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Enjoy this month's Curious Callback episode, all about a “degenerate” painter much-hated by Hitler and fingered for his near-murder. Did Otto Dix plot to kill Hitler?

This is an episode that originally aired on September 30, 2019.

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Curious Callback-- Episode #48: Shock Art: Eakins' The Gross Clinic (Season 5, Episode 2)

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Works that we take for granted today as masterpieces, or as epitomes of the finest of fine art, could also have been considered ugly, of poor quality, or just bad when they were first made. With the passage of time comes a calm and an acceptance. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are many works peppered throughout art history that were straight-up shocking to the public when they were first presented decades, or even hundreds of years ago.

Today's work of "shock art:" Eakins’ The Gross Clinic.

This is a callback of our episode from April 15, 2019.

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Episode #76: Art Auction Audacity-- O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower #1 (Season 8, Episode 8)

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:00:00 -0000

In our eighth season, we’re exploring examples of some of the most expensive artworks ever sold at auction considering why they garnered so much money, and discovering their backstories. Today, our season finale: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower #1 .

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Episode #75: Art Auction Audacity-- Qi Baishi's Twelve Landscape Screens (Season 8, Episode 7)

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:00:00 -0000

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Bonus Episode: Jennifer Dasal on "With a Side of Knowledge," from the University of Notre Dame

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0000

Holiday bonus! Please enjoy this episode of With a Side of Knowledge, a podcast from the University of Notre Dame. As an alumna of the university, host Ted Fox interviewed me to learn about the podcast and my book, ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History.

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Episode #74: Art Auction Audacity-- Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Season 8, Episode 6)

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0000

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Episode #73: Art Auction Audacity-- Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (Season 8, Episode 5)

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0000

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Episode #72: Art Auction Audacity-- Rothko's No. 6 (Violet, Green, and Red) (Season 8, Episode 4)

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0000

In our eighth season, we’re exploring examples of some of the most expensive artworks ever sold at auction considering why they garnered so much money, and discovering their backstories. Today: Mark Rothko’s No. 6 (Violet, Green, and Red).

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Episode #71: Art Auction Audacity-- Cézanne's The Card Players (Season 8, Episode 3)

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0000

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Episode #70: Art Auction Audacity--Picasso’s Les Femmes D'Alger (Version "O") (Season 8, Episode 2)

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -0000

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Episode #69: Art Auction Audacity: Modigliani’s Nu Couché (Season 8, Episode 1)

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -0000

In our eighth season, we’re exploring examples of some of the most expensive artworks ever sold at auction considering why they garnered so much money, and discovering their backstories, beginning with Amadeo Modigliani’s Nu Couché.

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Listener Favorites--Number 1, Part 2: Was Van Gogh Accidentally Murdered? (Season 1, Episode 2)

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -0000

You voted, and we listened! For the next couple of months, we’re replaying your top five favorite episodes of ArtCurious. Thanks to the many who voted! Up this week, it’s your top choice, our most popular episode ever— was Vincent van Gogh accidentally murdered?

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Listener Favorites--Number 1, Part 1: Was Van Gogh Accidentally Murdered? (Season 1, Episode 2)

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:00:00 -0000

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Our Book is Out!

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:00:00 -0000

It’s finally here! ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History, from Penguin Books, is now available in a bookstore near you!

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VIRTUAL EVENT ALERT: join me and my favorite local bookstore, Quail Ridge Books here in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - from 7:00pm to 8:00pm, eastern. It’s a FREE event and open to anyone anywhere in the world, but you must register online for the event.

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Listener Favorites--Number 4: The Semi-Charmed Life of Elisabeth Vigeé Le Brun (Season 1, Episode 3)

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:00:00 -0000

You voted, and we listened! For the next couple of months, we’re replaying your top five favorite episodes of ArtCurious. Thanks to the many who voted! Up this week, it’s our fave lady, back from Season 1— it’s Episode #3, all about Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. ~Heart eyes emojis!~

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Listener Favorites--Number 3, Part 2: Is the Mona Lisa a Fake? (Season 1, Episode 1)

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:00:00 -0000

You voted, and we listened! For the next couple of months, we’re replaying your top five favorite episodes of ArtCurious. Thanks to the many who voted! Up this week— our very first episode, from 2016, about the theft(s) of the iconic Mona Lisa.

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Listener Favorites--Number 3, Part 1--Is the Mona Lisa a Fake? (Season 1, Episode 1)

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:17:00 -0000

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Listener Favorites #4: Shock Art: Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (Season 4, Episode 3)

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:00:00 -0000

You voted, and we listened! For the next couple of months, we’re replaying your top five favorite episodes of ArtCurious. Thanks to the many who voted! Up first this week— Episode #42 from our fourth season, all about Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes.

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Listener Favorites--Number 5: Shock Art: Sargent's Madame X (Season 4, Episode 1)

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:00:00 -0000

You voted, and we listened! For the next couple of months, we’re replaying your top five favorite episodes of ArtCurious. Thanks to the many who voted! Up first this week— Episode #40 from our fourth season, all about Sargent’s Madame X.

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Episode #68: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Katsushika Ōi (Season 7, Episode 8)

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:00:00 -0000

For most Americans, there’s a list of arts that they might be able to rattle off if pressed to name them off the top of their heads. Picasso. Michelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci. Name recognition does go a long way, but such lists also highlight what many of us don’t know-- a huge treasure trove of talented artists from decades or centuries past that might not be household names, but still have created incredible additions to the story of art. It’s not a surprise that many of these individuals represent the more diverse side of things, too-- women, people of color, different spheres of the social or sexual spectrum.

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Katsushika Ōi.

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Episode #67: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Romaine Brooks (Season 7, Episode 7)

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:00:00 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Romaine Brooks.

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Episode #66: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Henry Darger (Season 7, Episode 6)

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:00:00 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Henry Darger.

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Episode #65: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Edmonia Lewis (Season 7, Episode 5)

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:00:00 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Edmonia Lewis.

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Episode #64: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Rosa Bonheur (Season 7, Episode 4)

Mon, 18 May 2020 11:56:00 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Rosa Bonheur.

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Episode #63: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Henry Ossawa Tanner (Season 7, Episode 3)

Mon, 04 May 2020 13:07:55 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Henry Ossawa Tanner.

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BONUS: A HUGE Announcement from ArtCurious!

Fri, 01 May 2020 15:00:00 -0000

ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

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Episode #62: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know: Jusepe de Ribera (Season 7, Episode 2)

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:09:35 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Jusepe de Ribera.

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Episode #61: The Coolest Artists You Don't Know--Angelica Kauffman (Season 7, Episode 1)

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0000

This season on the ArtCurious podcast, we’re covering the coolest artists you don’t know. This week: Angelica Kauffman.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK Episode #51: Shock Art: Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa (Season 5, Episode 5)

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:00:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #44, Shock Art: Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (Season 4, Episode 5)

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:30:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #36: Rivals- Turner vs. Constable (Season 3, Episode 5)

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:07:10 -0000

In 19th century England, landscape painting transitioned into being something lovely and comparatively calm, and transformed into a personal and stylistic battleground. Landscape: pristine and idealized, or rough, ready, and turbulent? Which one would better express the heart of 19th century British painting?

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Episode #60: True Crime/Fine Art: Man Ray and the Black Dahlia Connection

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:00:00 -0000

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: it’s our season finale, and this is the story we have been DYING (sorry) to tell you. Did Man Ray inspire the infamous (and infamously unsolved) Black Dahlia murder?

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Episode #59: True Crime/Fine Art: Eadweard Muybridge, Photo Pioneer and Jealous Husband

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:00:00 -0000

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: a photo pioneer goes off the jealousy deep end. It’s Eadweard Muybridge time!

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Episode #58: True Crime/Fine Art: The Mysterious Death of Ana Mendieta (and #MeToo)

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:00:00 -0000

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: a contemporary art conundrum. Who is responsible for the death of Ana Mendieta?

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Episode #57: True Crime/Fine Art: Was Walter Sickert Actually Jack the Ripper? PART 2 (Updated)

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:23:00 -0000

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: a revisiting of our popular two-parter from season 1. Was British painter Walter Sickert actually Jack the Ripper? (Part Two)

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Episode #56: True Crime/Fine Art: Was Walter Sickert Actually Jack the Ripper? PART 1 (Updated)

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:00:00 -0000

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Episode #55: True Crime/Fine Art: Caravaggio the Murderer, and Murdered?

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:00:00 -0000

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: a look into our favorite bad-boy artist, Caravaggio— he was a known murderer, but was he himself murdered?

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Episode #54: True Crime/Fine Art: Otto Dix and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:00:00 -0000

Welcome to Season 6 of the ArtCurious Podcast! This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. First up: a “degenerate” painter much-hated by Hitler and fingered for his near-murder. Did Otto Dix plot to kill Hitler?

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BONUS EPISODE: Meet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:43:00 -0000

We’re back for a bonus episode related to one of our “shock art” shows this past season: who is really responsible for creating the infamous urinal readymade, Fountain? Welcome to one of the art world’s latest scandals, and meet a truly unforgettable woman: the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

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Episode #53: Shock Art: Courbet's The Origin of the World (Season 5, Episode 7)

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:42:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Courbet’s The Origin of the World.

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Episode #52: Shock Art: Balthus' Thérèse Dreaming (Season 5, Episode 6)

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:03:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Balthus’ Thérèse Dreaming.

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Episode #51: Shock Art: Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa (Season 5, Episode 5)

Mon, 27 May 2019 11:40:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa.

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Episode #50: Shock Art: Duchamp's Fountain (Season 5, Episode 4)

Mon, 13 May 2019 10:30:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Duchamp’s Fountain.

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BONUS EPISODE: Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop LIVE Q&A at the Alamo Drafthouse

Mon, 06 May 2019 10:30:00 -0000

BANKSY! Love him or loathe him, he’s a contemporary art dynamo, an icon of street art success. He’s also an enigma, a playful mystery. Last week-- on April 30, 2019-- I was asked to participate in a special screening of the 2010 Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop at the Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina. Exit was part of Alamo’s Film Club series, curated by Jackson Cooper, and after the film I sat down with Jackson to record a special conversation/Q&A about the film, Banksy, and the legacy of street art. Enjoy— and we’ll be back next week with an all-new episode of ArtCurious.

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Episode #49: Shock Art: David's The Death of Marat (Season 5, Episode 3)

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:00:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" David's The Death of Marat.

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Episode #48: Shock Art: Eakins' The Gross Clinic (Season 5, Episode 2)

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:00:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Eakins' The Gross Clinic

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Episode #47: Shock Art: Caravaggio's Sick Bacchus (Season 5, Episode 1)

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:30:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Caravaggio's Sick Bacchus

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BONUS EPISODE: The Wild and Wonderful World of Weegee

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:30:00 -0000

In this bonus episode, we’re revisiting one of our favorite weirdos—Weegee!— whom we featured in Episode 5, alongside Andy Warhol. Today, Weegee gets his full due with a deep dive into his life and work.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #2: Was Van Gogh Accidentally Murdered? (PART TWO)

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:00 -0000

This is a rebroadcast of our first episode, which originally aired on August 29, 2016. We’ve updated it with new details, music, and our beloved ArtCurious theme— and, per your suggestion, we have split it into two parts for easier listening. If you haven't listened to part one, please go back and do so. Enjoy!

Vincent Van Gogh's suicide is a huge part of the mythology surrounding him: as much as the famous tale of the cut-off ear is. This so-called "tortured genius," it is said, was so broken down by life and failure that he had no choice but to end his life. Right? But in 2011, two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors published a book titled Van Gogh: The Life that stunned the art world. Therein, Gregory White Smith and Stephen Naifeh state that the artist didn't actually commit suicide.

No, they say: he was actually murdered.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #2: Was Van Gogh Accidentally Murdered? (PART ONE)

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:30:00 -0000

No, they say: he was actually murdered.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #1: Is the Mona Lisa a Fake? (UPDATED Season 1, Episode 1) PART TWO

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:00:00 -0000

This is a rebroadcast of our first episode, which originally aired on August 10, 2016. We’ve updated it with new details, music, and our beloved ArtCurious theme— and, per your suggestion, we have split it into two parts for easier listening. If you haven’t already listened to part one, please go back and do so. Enjoy!

The inaugural episode of the ArtCurious Podcast explores the world's most famous work of art: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. It is iconic, incredible, and unforgettable-- but is the work on view in Paris's Louvre Museum today the real deal? Host Jennifer Dasal uncovers the story of the Mona Lisa from its creation in the 16th century through its 1911 theft and to its current status as untouchable superstar, breaking down the strange stories and rumors swirling around it.

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CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #1: Is the Mona Lisa a Fake? (PART ONE)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:00:00 -0000

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Episode #46: Shock Art: Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Season 4, Episode 7)

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:00:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

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A Little Curious #6: The Discovery of Pompeii

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:00:00 -0000

This week’s topic: a snapshot at the discovery of the city of Pompeii.

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Episode #45: Shock Art: Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (Season 4, Episode 6)

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:20:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Michelangelo's The Last Judgment.

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A Little Curious #5: Disastrous Inspiration behind Munch's The Scream?

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:00:00 -0000

This week’s topic: the potential disastrous inspiration behind Munch's The Scream.

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Episode #44: Shock Art: Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (Season 4, Episode 5)

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:45:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son.

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A Little Curious #4: Leonardo's Hidden Masterpiece

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:30:00 -0000

This week’s topic: Leonardo's hidden masterpiece.

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Episode #43: Shock Art: Dürer's Self-Portrait (Season 4, Episode 4)

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:25:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Dürer's Self-Portrait.

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A Little Curious #3: The Pope's Secret Sexy Bathroom

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:00:00 -0000

This week’s topic: The Pope’s secret sexy bathroom.

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett.

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Episode #42: Shock Art: Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (Season 4, Episode 3)

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:00:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes.

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A Little Curious #2: Donatello's Mary Magdalene

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:00:00 -0000

This week’s topic: Welcome to A Little Curious, a series of special episodes that will provide you will short and sweet bonus content about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history. A Little Curious will publish in our season's "off" weeks. Enjoy!

This week’s topic: Donatello’s rule-breaking Mary Magdalene

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Episode #41: Shock Art: Edouard Manet's Olympia (Season 4, Episode 2)

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:29:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Edouard Manet's Olympia.

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Introducing: A Little Curious #1: Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:00:00 -0000

Welcome to A Little Curious, a series of special episodes that will provide you will short and sweet bonus content about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history. A Little Curious will publish in our season's "off" weeks. Enjoy! This week’s topic: the deep relationship between Michelangelo Buonarotti, and a sweet arts patron and poet, Vittoria Colonna.

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Episode #40: Shock Art: Sargent's Madame X (Season 4, Episode 1)

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:30:00 -0000

Today's work of "shock art:" Sargent's Madame X.

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Bonus Episode: When Disney Met Dalí

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:47:00 -0000

Today, we’re uncovering the bizarre artistic love child of Walt Disney and Salvador Dali with their incredible short film, Destino. This is a special bonus episode of the ArtCurious Podcast, exploring the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in Art History. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts! Twitter / Facebook/ Instagram

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Bonus Episode: CuriousTalk #2 (Recap of Season 3, Part 2)

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:47:00 -0000

Loved being a part of ArtCurious's third season? Listen in to hear more in our new BONUS segment, CuriousTalk, for behind-the-scenes goodies, listener questions, and more. This episode recaps details from the last four episodes of the season. CuriousTalk is hosted by Josh Dasal, from ArtCurious's production partner, Kaboonki. Learn more about Kaboonki's video and marketing capabilities here. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts! Twitter / Facebook/ Instagram

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Bonus Episode: CuriousTalk #1 (Recap of Season 3, Part 1)

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:07:00 -0000

Loved being a part of ArtCurious's third season? Listen in to hear more in our new BONUS segment, CuriousTalk, for behind-the-scenes goodies, listener questions, and more. This episode recaps details from the first four episodes of the season.

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Episode #39: Rivals- Picasso vs. Matisse (Season 3, Episode 8)

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:30:00 -0000

This episode receives additional support from Reynolda House Museum of American Art, where you can find one of the nation's most highly regarded collections of American art on view in a unique domestic setting - the restored 1917 mansion of R. J. and Katharine Reynolds surrounded by beautiful gardens and peaceful walking trails. You can browse Reynolda's art and decorative arts collections and see what's coming next at their website, reynoldahouse.org.

The beginning of the Twentieth Century was a glittering time of hope and innovation. It was one of the golden ages of art, particularly in Paris, the glamorous capital of all things cultural, where writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein hobnobbed and debated ideas with painters like Salvador Dali, Georges Braque and many others who filled the bars, cafes, and salons, working and discussing politics and their idyllic fantasies about what art could be. Thinking and dreaming BIG was the norm-- and collaboration and sharing in each others’ concepts and victories was, too. But there was a shadowy side to such sharing, where friendships and support could morph into jealousy and competitiveness, as the drive to become the best took ultimate control. It is within this sparkling Parisian backdrop that what is possibly the greatest rivalry of art history played out-- what IS modern art, and what should it be?

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett. Additional writing and research by Stephanie Pryor.

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Links and further resources

Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, Jack Flam

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, Sebastian Smee

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art, Sue Roe

Smithsonian Magazine: "Matisse & Picasso"

The Art Story: Pablo Picasso

PabloPicasso.org: Picasso and Matisse

Slate: Matisse vs. Picasso

The Art Story: Henri Matisse

The Guardian: Quiz: Are You a Picasso or a Matisse?

Pablo Picasso, Self-Portrait, 1907

Henri Matisse, Self-Portrait, 1906

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

Henri Matisse, Le Dessert (Harmony in Red), 1908

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Episode #38- Rivals: Manet vs. Degas (Season 3, Episode 7)

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:39:00 -0000

Gift-giving: it’s one of the primary ways to solidify a relationship. But what happens when gifting goes suddenly wrong, and alters a friendship for good?

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This is the third of three episodes in collaboration with Sartle. Sartle encourages you to see art history differently, and they have a plethora of incredibly fun and informative videos, blog posts, and articles on their website.

Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett.

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Links and further resources

Manet and the Family Romance, Nancy Locke

Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet, Otto Friedrich

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, Sebastian Smee

The Telegraph: "Did Manet Have a Secret Son?"

The Art Story: Edgar Degas

The New York Times: "Degas and Mrs. Manet"

Edouard Manet, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1878–1879

Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, 1855 (detail)

Edouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1862-1863

Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, 1874

Edouard Manet, The Absinthe Drinker, 1859 (detail)

Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Mme. Manet, 1868-69

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

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Episode #37: Rivals- Vigée Le Brun vs. Labille-Guiard (Season 3, Episode 6)

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:48:00 -0000

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There’s an old quote that I’m sure you’ve heard referenced in a million sitcoms or Looney Tunes cartoons- though it actually stems from a 1932 western-- where one character, all flinty-eyed, turns to another, and declares, “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.” It’s an order meant to scare someone away, but it’s also a declaration of the feelings of rivalry, of jealousy, as if it shouldn’t be allowed that two people of similar stature could be functioning-- or even flourishing-- in the same place and time. After all, you couldn’t possibly have two star quarterbacks on the team, or two top valedictorians. Someone always has to be the best, or even more importantly, to be seen by the public as the best. But was this true in the case of the two top female painters in Revolutionary-era France?

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Logo by Dave Rainey. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett. Additional writing and research by Adria Gunter.

Links and further resources:

ArtCurious Episode 3: The Semi-Charmed Life of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Harvard Magazine: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in an Age of Revolution, by Laura Auricchio

Metropolitan Museum Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Le Grand Palais: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Female Competition

Jacques-Louis David: New Perspectives, by Dorothy Johnson

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Peace Bringing Back Abundance, 1780

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait, 1790

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Episode #36: Rivals- Turner vs. Constable (Season 3, Episode 5)

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:18:00 -0000

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This is the second of three episodes in collaboration with Sartle. Sartle encourages you to see art history differently, and they have a plethora of incredibly fun and informative videos, blog posts, and articles on their website.

Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett.

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Links and further resources

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, C.R. Leslie

John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own, Anthony Bailey

The Life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 2, Walter Thornbury

Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner, Franny Moyle

Standing in the Sun: A Life of JMW Turner, Anthony Bailey

The Daily Mail: "Why Britain's Two Greatest Painters Hated Each Other's Guts: And now Turner and Constable Are Going Toe-to-Toe Once More"

The Telegraph: "JMW Turner's Feud with John Constable Unveiled at Tate Britain"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Self-Portrait, c. 1799

John Constable, Self-Portrait, c. 1799-1804

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821

JMW Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed, 1844

John Constable, The Opening of Waterloo Bridge, 1832

JMW Turner, Helvoetsluys, 1832

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Episode #35: Rivals- Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning vs. Their Husbands (Season 3, Episode 4)

Mon, 28 May 2018 10:53:00 -0000

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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, Mary Gabriel

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett. Additional research and writing for this episode by Patricia Gomes.

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"Song Sparrow" by Chad Crouch is licensed under BY-NC 3.0; "Converging Lines" by David Hilowitz is licensed under BY-NC 4.0; "Today, Tomorrow, & The Sun Rising" by Julie Maxwell is licensed under BY-ND 4.0; "Is everything of this is true?" by Komiku is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License; "Fantasy in my mind" by Alan Špiljak is licensed under BY-NC-ND 4.0. Ad Music: "Hello September" by Proviant Audio is licensed under BY-NC-ND 3.0 US; "The Valley" by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under BY-NC-SA 4.0; "Galaxies" by Split Phase is licensed under BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

Links and further resources

The Art Story: Lee Krasner

Artsy: "The Emotionally Charged Paintings Lee Krasner Created After Pollock's Death"

Smithsonian Magazine: "Why Elaine de Kooning Sacrificed Her Own Amazing Career for Her More Famous Husband's"

National Portrait Gallery Blog: "Elaine de Kooning's JFK"

NPR: "For Artist Elaine de Kooning, Painting was a Verb, not a Noun"

Elaine de Kooning in her studio, 1963

Elaine de Kooning, Self-Portrait, 1946

Lee Krasner in her studio, date unknown

Lee Krasner, Self-Portrait, c. 1929

Elaine de Kooning, John F. Kennedy, 1963

Lee Krasner, Untitled (Umber Series), c. 1960

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Episode #34: Rivals- Pollock vs. de Kooning (Season 3, Episode 3)

Mon, 14 May 2018 10:25:00 -0000

The art world is a man’s world- or, at least, it used to be entirely one. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who is a longtime listener of the ArtCurious Podcast, because we’ve touched multiple times on the difficulties that have faced women who have sought careers as artists. Now, thankfully, in the age of #metoo, the male-heaviness of the art world is changing a bit, as it is in other facets of society. But turning back the clock to any other era in history, and the reality is that it was totally a man’s game. And the absolute manliness of it all was compounded intensely in one particular time and place: post-war America, where it was all about brusque machismo, the biggest innovations, and the biggest splash. It was a measuring contest like none other, and two larger-than-life characters were at the center of it all.

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett. Additional research and writing for this episode by Stephanie Pryor.

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"The Walk" by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under BY-NC-SA 4.0; "Catching Glitter" by Split Phase is licensed under BY-NC-SA 3.0 US; "Aquasigns" by Tagirijus is licensed under BY-NC-SA 4.0; "You know why" by Loyalty Freak Music is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License; "Tethered" by Nctrnm is licensed under BY 4.0. Based on a work at https://soundcloud.com/nctrnm/; "Dancing on the Seafloor (KieLoKaz ID 110)" by KieLoBot is licensed under BY-NC-ND 4.0; "Attempt 7" by Jared C. Balogh is licensed under BY-NC-SA 3.0

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Links and further resources

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, Sebastian Smee

The New York Times: "Ruth Kligman, Muse and Artist, Dies at 80"

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith

De Kooning: A Retrospective, John Elderfield

Willem de Kooning and his wife, Elaine, photograph by Hans Namuth, 1952.

Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, photograph by Hans Namuth, 1950.

Willem de Kooning, Excavation, 1950

Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, c. 1942

Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-1952

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

Jackson Pollock painting on panes of glass, Hans Namuth documentary stills, 1950.

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Episode #33: Rivals- Raphael vs. Michelangelo (Season 3, Episode 2)

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:30:00 -0000

One pair of incredible Renaissance artists experienced a particularly epic rivalry. Both were vying for the same patrons, and their professional contempt very quickly got ultra-personal. Today, explore the intense conflict between Michelangelo and Raphael, both seeking approval and projects from one of the most innovative patrons: Pope Julius II.

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Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett.

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Episode #32: Rivals- Judith Leyster vs. Frans Hals (Season 3, Episode 1)

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:56:00 -0000

Rivalries are inherently fascinating, because they typically affect not only the individual rivals themselves, but also a whole ecosystem that can grow up around a rivalry-- spurring it on, and enabling it. Some of the greatest artists in history have engaged in some seriously curious conflicts. What causes these rivalries is fascinating and vast-- is it art and creativity? Is it money and patronage? Or is it simply ego? And are the artists really in conflict with one another, or does it just appear that

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BONUS: Jennifer Dasal on "Genius" at CreativeMornings RDU (August 2017)

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:01:00 -0000

We're thrilled to bring a bonus episode to you today. Last August, Jennifer Dasal was asked to speak on the topic of "genius" at CreativeMornings RDU. So what does genius have to do with madness? And how about suffering and sadness? Join Jennifer as she discusses this topic with the poster child for all suffering artists: Vincent Van Gogh. Want to WATCH this episode instead of listen to it? See the video of this lecture here! https://creativemornings.com/talks/jennifer-dasal/1 Learn more about CreativeMor

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Episode #31: Season Finale, Art and WWII- The Long Shadow (Season 2, Episode 11)

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:33:00 -0000

World War Two was the bloodiest, biggest, and most destructive war of all time, decimating entire countries and taking the lives of millions. And as we have learned over the last 10 episodes of the ArtCurious Podcast this season, art was affected in many different ways due to the impact of the war. Art was used to document the experience of soldiers in battle; created to shape public opinion, values, and inspire the war effort; and to fight the enemy. It was a failed dream of Adolf Hitler, leading us to ask

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Episode #30: Art and Remembrance (Season 2, Episode 10)

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:18:00 -0000

It's interesting that literature seems to have cornered the market on artistic depictions of those who experienced the Holocaust firsthand. We think of The Diary of Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel’s Night first and foremost when we think of how war has been creatively represented by those who survived it-- or didn’t survive it. But it turns out that there were many artists who made visual representations of their experiences, too-- and lots of these individuals were prisoners, like Anne eventually became, in

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Episode #29: The Monuments Men (Season 2, Episode 9)

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:22:00 -0000

Ah, Hollywood. Nothing goes further than a big celebrity-studded movie to grab your pop-culture attention and to inspire countless articles and think-pieces about a particular topic. A really solid blockbuster can raise a niche book to bestseller status or inspire hopeful imitators. And it can lead to a renewed interest in a certain time period or subject matter. In the case of the 2014 film, The Monuments Men, all of this was certainly true. With superstar George Clooney directing and acting alongside Matt

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Episode #28: The Ghost Army (Season 2, Episode 8)

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:36:00 -0000

In a time where the arts are ever-undervalued, it is increasingly important for us not just to support the arts in our communities, but to look back through periods of history where artists were applauded for making a significant difference. And in the case of one very special American troop in the midst of World War Two, artists and creative types were tasked specifically with using their skills to preserve people. Art here became a life-saving force- literally. A force for good, even through multiple mean

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Episode #27: CURIOUS CALLBACK: What Happened to the Amber Room? (Season 2, Episode 7)

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:35:00 -0000

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This is a rebroadcast of our eighth episode, which originally aired on November 4, 2016. It's a fan favorite, and it ties in rather nicely to the theme of our current season! Even if you've listened to this episode before, you're not going to want to miss this, as it updates our show based on new information.

One of the most awe-inspiring sights in and around St. Petersburg, Russia, is the Catherine Palace, a rococo summer residence for the imperial family of yore. Up until World War II, The Catherine Palace housed something so incredible, so coveted, and so gorgeous that for hundreds of years, travelers fro all over the world flocked to admire it, referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World." And then, in the early 1940s with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, this priceless creation was stolen. And to this day, it has still never been found.

What happened to the Amber Room?

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