Episode #82: Cursed Art: Edvard Munch's The Dead Mother (Season 9, Episode 6)

World War Two was the bloodiest, biggest, and most destructive war of all time, decimating entire countries and taking the lives of millions. And as we have learned over the last 10 episodes of the Ar...

25 Dec 201723min

It's interesting that literature seems to have cornered the market on artistic depictions of those who experienced the Holocaust firsthand. We think of The Diary of Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel’s Night f...

11 Dec 201731min

Ah, Hollywood. Nothing goes further than a big celebrity-studded movie to grab your pop-culture attention and to inspire countless articles and think-pieces about a particular topic. A really solid bl...

27 Nov 201731min

In a time where the arts are ever-undervalued, it is increasingly important for us not just to support the arts in our communities, but to look back through periods of history where artists were appla...

13 Nov 201727min

This episode is sponsored by Audible: get a free audiobook download and a free 30-day trial here. Thank you for supporting our show! This is a rebroadcast of our eighth episode, which originally aire...

30 Okt 201753min

Today, we’re digging into the story behind one of the most significant museums never built-- Hitler’s Fuhrermuseum-- what was his obsession with art, and was his “World’s greatest museum” really going...

16 Okt 201727min

How did Walt Disney and his team, especially a blustery cartoon duck, get involved so specifically in wartime propaganda? LEARN MORE: Artcuriouspodcast.com SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW: https://itunes.apple.c...

25 Sep 201730min

This episode is all about American World War Two propaganda posters: what they were, who created them, and how America was fighting the war via words and pictures. It wasn’t all about manpower and mil...

11 Sep 201729min