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Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa (encore)
Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa (encore)

Season 7

Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa, part of his series of 36 Views of Mount Fuji. His family was in the mirror busin…

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Roberto Matta | The Earth is a Man
Roberto Matta | The Earth is a Man

Season 7

Roberto Matta was a Chilean born artist whose life and work transcended boundaries. He was always looking to explore new ideas, push his work further…

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Shiva Nataraja | Shiva the Lord of the Dance
Shiva Nataraja | Shiva the Lord of the Dance

Season 7

In this depiction of Shiva we see the natural rhythms to everything in the cosmos. Birth and death, creation and destruction are symply phases all th…

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes
The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Season 7

Lisa Gherardini was not born to fame and fortune. In fact, her family had fallen on hard times as wars laid waste to their land. She was an unlikely …

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The Lascaux Cave Art
The Lascaux Cave Art

Season 7

On September 12, 1940, a dog fell down a fox hole and four boys went in after it. They descended into a cavern with a makeshift lamp and hopes of fin…

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Hahn v Duveen | The Case of the American Leonardo
Hahn v Duveen | The Case of the American Leonardo

Season 7

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 a…

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The Peace Symbol
The Peace Symbol

Season 7

In November of 1957, a small committee was formed. February 17, 1958, they held the first public meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Tha…

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Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas

Season 4

Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre pai…

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Rene Magritte | The Son of Man
Rene Magritte | The Son of Man

Season 7

Rene Magritte's painting, Son of Man, is among the most famous images of the Surrealist Movement. It is one of the few artworks that transcends the m…

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Steven Seidenberg | The Architecture of Silence
Steven Seidenberg | The Architecture of Silence

Season 7

Steven Seidenberg is an incredible photographer and in this episode, I spoke with Steven Seidenberg and the writer, Carolyn White about a little-know…

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