Art Podcast
1) Cochineal in the History of Art and Global Trade
Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg of the Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden and Oaxaca Textile Museum explores the historical and cultural significance of this natural crimson dye. Used from antiquity, cochineal ...Show More
2) In Search of Blue Boy’s True Colors
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, art historian and journalist, reveals the scholarship and science behind Project Blue Boy, The Huntington’s two-year effort to conserve one of Western Art’s greatest master...Show More
3) Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics
Kelly Conway, curator of American glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, discusses the understudied aspect of Tiffany’s virtuosity. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Louis...Show More
4) Live Free or Die
Artists Soyoung Shin and Juliana Wisdom, two of the seven artists whose work is featured in the exhibition COLLECTION/S, discusses the influence of 18th-century French history and decorative arts on t...Show More
5) Frederick Hammersley’s Remarkable Account of his Painting Practice & Materials
Abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) kept meticulous documentation of his painting process and materials. His Painting Books, compiled over the course of nearly 40 years, describe in detai...Show More
Frederick Hammersley’s Remarkable Account of his Painting Practice & Materials
43:37 | Jan 19th, 2018
6) Calder: The Conquest of Time
In his groundbreaking biography of American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), author Jed Perl shows us why Calder was—and remains—a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. Perl i...Show More
7) The Origin of the American Work of Art
Bill Brown asks, What is American about American art? Can art change America? How might aesthetic education transform the social and economic ideals of the nation? He discusses case studies from the ...Show More
8) Musical Chair: An Abiding Friendship between Woodworker Sam Maloof and Violist Jan Hlinka
Hal Nelson discusses the close bond between artist and client in a lecture about a double music stand and musician’s chair crafted in 1972 by woodworker Sam Maloof for musician Jan Hlinka. Nelson’s ta...Show More
9) Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Haynes Foundation Lecture)
Cecile Whiting, professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine, discusses the ways in which various artists contributed to L.A.’s urban identity in the 1960s, producing artworks insp...Show More