Ettore Sottsass | Carlton & Memphis Design
Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer who transformed the design landscape of the late 20th century by challenging the rigid functionalism of modernist architecture. Born in Austria an...
14 Sep 14min
Author Interview CJ Denton | La Pittura
My guest this week is CJ Denton, author of a new novel called La Pittura. While his work is historical fiction, in preparation for the book, he conducted extensive research into the life of Artemisia ...
7 Sep 37min
Author Interview: Ryan T. Pozzi | The Mess that Made Them
Today I have a bonus episode in the feed. I originally planned to release my interview with Ryan T. Pozzi on Monday, but due to technical difficulties, I had to flip things around. Today, his new book...
3 Sep 43min
TLDR Eugène Delacroix | Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix stands as one of the defining figures of 19th-century French art and the leading pioneer of the Romantic movement. Rejecting the rigid, line-driven academic standards of Neoclassicism...
31 Aug 13min
Joseph Ducreux | Self-Portrait of the Artist in the Guise of a Mocker
Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) was an innovative French portrait painter known for defying the rigid conventions of 18th-century academic art. After training under masters such as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Du...
24 Aug 11min
Fernand Léger | Composition in Blue
Fernand Léger was a pioneering French modernist painter whose foundational training as an architectural draftsman profoundly shaped his structured, geometric approach to art. After absorbing the influ...
17 Aug 11min
Stuart Davis | Swing Landscape
Stuart Davis was an influential 20th-century American modernist painter who bridged European abstract movements like Cubism with distinctively American subjects and aesthetics. Born in 1892, Davis stu...
10 Aug 12min
Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara in a Green Bugatti (encore)
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...
7 Aug 10min
