The 3 Best Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages Podcast Episodes
1) Man Ray | Ingres's Violin
Man Ray was a pioneer of cameraless photography. His signature technique was the "rayogram" created by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper often manipulating them during exposure. Of c...Show More
2) The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
My guest this week is Michelle Young, author of The Art Spy. During WWII, French museum curator Rose Valland risked her life to sabotage the Nazi art theft machine, secretly documenting their plunder ...Show More
3) Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous and influential architects. He famously said, "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and...Show More
4) 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 the Roaring Twenties. From her harrowing escape du...Show More
5) 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 doodle over famous landmarks across the globe. Dr...Show More
6) 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 disciplines was the brainchild of Pierre de Coubertin, the ...Show More
7) 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 bridge between the early and high Italian Renaissance....Show More
8) 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 of Surrealism. Born in Bruehl and deeply scarred ...Show More
9) 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 mountain, the land was sacred to the Lakota. Matthew Dav...Show More
10) 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 Sotheby’s and sold for $1.5 million and I would a...Show More