The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | The Judgment of Hunefer
This mini episode is about The Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts from ancient Egypt. To better understand the collection as well as the culture and mythology behind these works, I looke...
22 Jan 20258min
Claude Monet | The Gare Saint Lazare
Claude Monet loved his garden and made about 250 paintings of water lilies. He and his Impressionist contemporaries were focused on color, light, and how our eyes perceive the world, but I would say t...
21 Jan 20258min
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 in Paris and developing a unique style that blend...
20 Jan 202518min
Johannes Vermeer | Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer created stunning works and he is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This painting, Woman Holding a Balance is a work intended to encourage temp...
19 Jan 202510min
The Moai of Rapa Nui
Today's mini episode is about the Moai statues of Rapa Nui, commonly referred to as Easter Island. The purpose of the Moai remains a mystery, but one theory suggests they represented ancestors and wer...
18 Jan 20257min
Meret Oppenheim | Object (Luncheon in Fur)
In 1936, Meret Oppenheim sat down in a cafe with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Picasso took note of Oppenheim's bracelet and commented that anything could be wrapped in fur. Meret replied "even this te...
17 Jan 202511min
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goal is to inspire, to make them feel. He talks about the...
16 Jan 202512min
Caravaggio | The Calling of Saint Matthew
Michelangelo Merisi, born in 1571 amidst the darkness of the plague, would come to be known not by his christened name but by the name of his birthplace – Caravaggio. Orphaned young, the specter of lo...
15 Jan 202515min
