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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…
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
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 …
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 5 months ago
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…
2 years, 5 months ago
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…
2 years, 5 months ago
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…
2 years, 5 months ago
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…
2 years, 5 months ago