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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Thomas Hart Benton
American artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was a leading figure of the Regionalist movement, known for his dynamic depictions of American life, la...
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creation...
Wayne Thiebaud | Pie a la Mode
Wayne Thiebaud is known for his paintings of everyday objects. Born in 1920, Thiebaud's early experiences as a sign painter and an apprentice animator...
The Ardabil Carpet
The Ardabil Carpet, a masterpiece of 16th-century Persian weaving, represents a pinnacle of Safavid art. Though associated with Ardabil, scholars sugg...
Wifredo Lam | The Jungle
Wifredo Lam was a visionary artist whose work seamlessly blended the diverse influences of his multicultural heritage with the avant-garde movements o...
Constantin Brâncuși | The Kiss & Bird in Space
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor who made a significant impact on modern art through his abstract sculptures. His passion and dedication to...
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani, a rebellious Italian painter, left a lasting mark on the art world with his distinctive style and captivating portraits. Born in Li...
Auguste Rodin | The Burghers of Calais
Today's mini-episode is rebroadcast of one of my favorites, Auguste Rodin and his sculpture of The Burghers of Calais. The story behind the piece is a...
Alfonse Mucha | Gismonda
In December 1894, Alphonse Mucha just happened to be in the print shop checking some proofs for a friend, when in walked an actress, Sarah Bernhardt i...
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...
Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay
The Bay was painted in 1963 as Frankenthaler had refined her soak and stain process. While Mountains and Sea was made with diluted oil paints, The Bay...
Romero Britto | Mona Cat
From humble beginnings in Recife, Brazil, to international acclaim in Miami, Florida, Romero Britto has redefined the boundaries of contemporary pop a...
Saloua Raouda Choucair | Interform
Saloua Raouda Choucair was a pioneer of abstract art born in Beirut in 1916. Despite initial discouragement, she pursued her passion for art, studying...
Ibrahim El-Salahi | The Inevitable
Ibrahim El-Salahi is a pivotal figure in Sudanese and African modernism. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, El-salahi's artistic journey began with the...
Marc Chagall | I and the Village
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal, 1887-1985) was a prominent Russian-French modern artist whose life spanned nearly a century of dramatic historical c...
Henri Matisse | Goldfish
Henri Matisse was born in Northern France on December 31, 1869. His father was a successful grain merchant. In 1887, Henri was well on his way to a su...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party
Today, Renoir is remembered as one of the greatest painters of the Impressionist movement. His paintings are soft and delicate, but his life and his w...
Ansel Adams | Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was an iconic American photographer renowned for his dramatic black and white landscapes, particularly of Yosemite National Pa...
El Anatsui | Old Man's Cloth
El Anatsui is a leading contemporary sculptor born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. Trained at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Anatsu...
Peter Paul Rubens International Man of Mystery
Peter Paul Rubens wasn't your typical 17th-century artist. He produced magnificent Baroque masterpieces, his canvases overflowing with vibrant colors...
Maya Lin | Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was established to honor those who died in the Vietnam War. Jan Scruggs, a veteran of the conflict, spearheaded the crea...
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...