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Maurizio Cattelan | Strategies, Comedian and America
Season 10
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist known for his provocative and satirical sculptures and installations that challenge the norms of the art world…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Radium Girls (encore)
Season 10
Starting in 1917, the US Radium Corporation hired a bunch of young women to paint watch faces with radium based paints that would glow in the dark. F…
1 year, 5 months ago
Artist Interview | Reggie Laurent
Season 10
Reggie Laurent is a contemporary artist based out of Atlanta. Laurent is a largely self-taught artist working in a variety of media and often on unex…
1 year, 5 months ago
Hieronymus Bosch | The Garden of Earthly Delights
Season 10
Hieronymus Bosch was a 15th-century Dutch painter whose fantastical and often unsettling works continue to captivate viewers today. His most famous p…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mary Cassatt at Work
Season 10
My guest this week is Emily Beeny, the Curator in charge of European paintings for The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She spoke with me about Ma…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Treasures of King Tutankhamun's Tomb (encore)
Season 10
On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter prepared to enter the tomb of a little-known pharaoh. Nobody had set foot inside the space for over 3,000 years, …
1 year, 5 months ago
Author Interview: Carrie Rickey on A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda
Season 10
This week I spoke with Carrie Rickey, the author of a new biography of Agnes Varda. Varda is considered to be one of the greatest female directors in…
1 year, 5 months ago
Alfred Stieglitz | The Steerage (encore)
Season 10
Alfred Stieglitz is considered by many to be the father of modern photography. He looked at the camera as not simply a tool to document the world, bu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Edward Hopper | Nighthawks
Season 10
The brilliance of Edward Hopper is that he was able to be simultaneously specific and concrete yet vague and leave a lot up to the viewer to interpre…
1 year, 6 months ago
Mark Rothko | The Seagram Murals
Season 10
Mark Rothko is one of the most famous painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement. While many look at his paintings as simple rectangles of vario…
1 year, 6 months ago