Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
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Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
Who Arted is art history and art education for everyone. While most art history podcasts focus on the traditional "fine art" we see in museums around the world, Who ARTed celebrates art in all of its forms and in terms anyone can understand. Each episode tells the story of a different artist and art...
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Elaine de Kooning | Portrait of John F. Kennedy
Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) was a vital figure in 20th-century American art. She was a renowned Abstract Expressionist painter, portraitist, and wri...
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning, a Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist painter, was born in Rotterdam in 1904. He stowed away on a freighter in 1926, eventually s...
The Erased Masterpiece - Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning
This episode is kicking off Arts Madness season. Every spring, listeners vote for their favorites in a bracketed tournament of 64 different artists. A...
The 57th Street Art Fair
For today's episode, I wanted to focus on the business side of art by looking at art fairs. I interviewed Amy from the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago...
Titian | Bacchus and Ariadne
Tiziano Vecellio, known simply as Titian, stands as the central figure of the Venetian Renaissance, dominating the art world for over sixty years with...
Frederic Edwin Church | Aurora Borealis
Frederic Edwin Church stands as a titan of nineteenth-century American art, renowned for transforming landscape painting into a high-stakes blend of s...
Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara in a Green Bugatti
Tamara de Lempicka remains the definitive icon of the Art Deco era, blending polished Cubist techniques with the glamorous, high-stakes atmosphere of...
David Hunt | Earthboard
My guest this week is David Hunt, the creator of Earthboard. Earthboard is an earth-sized collaborative mural where you claim real-world locations and...
Pierre de Coubertin & Other Artists Winning Medals at the Olympics (encore)
From 1912 to 1948, medals were awarded for artistic creations inspired by sport, alongside those for athletic prowess. This unique fusion of disciplin...
Domenico Ghirlandaio | The Adoration of the Shepherds
Domenico Ghirlandaio stands as a titan of the Quattrocento, often overshadowed by his most famous student, Michelangelo, yet serving as the vital brid...
Max Ernst | Forest and Dove
German artist Max Ernst was a pivotal figure in modern art history, bridging the anarchic rebellion of the Dada movement with the psychological depths...
Matthew Davis | The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore has a complicated and fascinating history. Long before the faces of American presidents were carved into the granite face of the mounta...
Hahn v Duveen | The Case of the American Leonardo (encore)
An artist’s skillful application of paint will make an artwork good, but a good story makes that artwork great. In 2010, a painting went on auction at...
Tony Starg and the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloons
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is recognized globally as a holiday spectacle, but it also stands as one of the world's largest exhibitions of publ...
The Highwaymen
In the racially segregated 1950s, a group of twenty-six African American artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, defied the economic limitations of the Jim...
Peter Elliott | Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France
My guest this week is Peter Elliott, author of the new book, Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France. Tens of thousands of artworks wer...
El Greco | The Burial of the Count Orgaz
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, was a singular figure in art history who bridged the gap between Byzantine tradition and Western m...
10 Prehistoric Artworks
Explore a global journey through prehistoric art, from the earliest figurative works in Africa to foundational pieces in the Americas, Europe, and Asi...
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night (encore)
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could...
Sand Mandalas (encore)
The Buddhist monks of Tibet who are known for their tradition of sand mandalas destroy the work after completing it. The word mandala comes from Sansk...
Hans Holbein the Younger | The Ambassadors (encore)
Hans Holbein the Younger painted The Ambassadors in 1533. It is a massive, life sized double portrait filled with symbolism that gives us insights int...
Emma Stebbins | Industry & Commerce
My guest for this episode is Karli Wurzelbacher, curator for The Heckscher Museum of Art. She shared her insights into Emma Stebbins, a great neoclass...
Edgar Degas (encore)
Degas is famous for his beautiful depictions of ballet dancers, but he was also giving a glimpse into the tough reality those dancers experienced.
Artist Interview | Laurie Roberst
This week I have part two of my interview with Laurie Roberts. Last week, she shared insights into Larry Roberts, her late husband. He made beautiful...
Giovanni Battista Lombardi | Veiled Woman
Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1822-1877) was a prominent Italian sculptor of the 19th century, originally from Rezzato, near Brescia. After moving to Ro...
Larry Roberts | From the Beginning
Larry Roberts was a Chicago-based artist best known for his abstract paintings with rich colors and textures. I was able to interview Laurie Roberts,...
Bridget Riley | Movement in Squares (encore)
Bridget Riley, born in London in 1931, is a prominent figure in the Op Art movement. Early life experiences, including wartime evacuation to Cornwall...
Artist Interview Tyler Loftis | The Shell
Tyler Loftis is a contemporary artist based out of New York. Loftis developed a practice rooted that respects traditional practices like drawing and p...
Jeff Koons | Pink Panther (encore)
Jeff Koons, born in 1955, displayed an early interest in art. As a teenager, he called Salvador Dali's hotel and arranged to meet the artist. He was i...
TLDR Le Corbusier | Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was a pioneer of modern architecture whose ideas reshaped our urban landscapes. A Swiss-born, French-nat...
TLDR Medieval Architecture
Medieval European architecture is defined by two major successive styles: Romanesque and Gothic. Romanesque architecture (c. 1000–1200 CE) is characte...
TLDR Tarsila do Amaral
Explore the life and work of Tarsila do Amaral, a foundational artist of Brazilian modernism and one of the most celebrated figures in Latin American...
TLDR Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts are the stunning, handcrafted books of the medieval world, created through a meticulous process in monastery workshops known a...
Introducing If Objects Could Talk
I am putting a special bonus episode in the feed this week to share a new podcast from Getty. If Objects Could Talk is a great family friendly podcast...
TLDR Ibrahim El-Salahi | The Inevitable
My TLDR episodes are meant to be short and to the point with a few key facts to know about the artist and a look at one of their major works. This epi...
TLDR Georgia O'Keeffe | Sky Above Clouds IV
My TLDR episodes give a short and sweet overview with a few interesting facts about a great artist.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) stands a...
TLDR Claude Monet | Water Lilies
As it is back to school season, I thought I would try making a series of episodes that are short and to the point to give students and anyone else int...
TLDR Gerhard Richter | Betty
Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, is a towering figure in contemporary art, whose life and work were forged by the tumultuous histor...
TLDR Georges Braque | Violin and Palette
Since it is back to school season, I thought I would make a series of episodes optimized for classrooms to give students a quick overview and a few in...
Eadweard Muybridge | The Horse in Motion
Pioneering 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in capturing movement, which laid the foundation for...