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...
28 Nov 202514min
Tony Starg and the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloons
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is recognized globally as a holiday spectacle, but it also stands as one of the world's largest exhibitions of public art and engineering. Originating in 1924 as a c...
24 Nov 202515min
The Highwaymen
In the racially segregated 1950s, a group of twenty-six African American artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, defied the economic limitations of the Jim Crow South by forging a unique path in the art wo...
21 Nov 202510min
Peter Elliott | Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France
My guest this week is Peter Elliott, author of the new book, Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France. Tens of thousands of artworks were taken around the time of World War 2. This new b...
17 Nov 202558min
El Greco | The Burial of the Count Orgaz
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, was a singular figure in art history who bridged the gap between Byzantine tradition and Western modernism. Born in Crete in 1541, he trained as an ...
14 Nov 202514min
10 Prehistoric Artworks
Explore a global journey through prehistoric art, from the earliest figurative works in Africa to foundational pieces in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. This overview, drawing from the AP Art History ...
10 Nov 202515min
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night (encore)
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could learn from. The Starry Night came about late in hi...
7 Nov 20258min
Sand Mandalas (encore)
The Buddhist monks of Tibet who are known for their tradition of sand mandalas destroy the work after completing it. The word mandala comes from Sanskrit meaning “circle” but a mandala is not your ave...
3 Nov 202512min
