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Bauhaus Parties
Season 7
The Bauhaus was a small but enormously influential art school in the 1930s. It was known for producing architecture and industrial design with clean …
2 years, 5 months ago
Hans Holbein the Younger | The Ambassadors
Season 7
Hans Holbein the Younger painted The Ambassadors in 1533. It is a massive, life sized double portrait filled with symbolism that gives us insights in…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sugar Skulls
Season 7
Sugar skulls have been a popular decoration for Day of the Dead celebrations for hundreds of years now. Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a co…
2 years, 5 months ago
Spirit Photography | Some Spooky Fun Historic Hoaxes
Season 7
William Mulmer was born in 1832. For historical context, the oldest known Daguerrotype is from 1837, so Mulmer was born right around the same time as…
2 years, 5 months ago
Raku
Season 7
Raku bowls are humble. They are hand formed starting from a flat, circular base and coils built up around the sides. The process results in each piec…
2 years, 5 months ago
Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (encore)
Season 7
This episode gives a brief overview of the life of Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, and one of his most famous w…
2 years, 5 months ago
Pencils
Season 7
For today's mini episode, I thought it might be nice to change things up a little bit and cover the history of a medium rather than a specific artwor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky
Season 7
Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the Sky as a monumental print. It is brobably among the most ambitious, labo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Season 5
Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goal i…
2 years, 6 months ago
Arthur Boyd | Nebuchadnezzar on Fire Falling over a Waterfall (encore)
Season 7
This episode is about Arthur Boyd the Australian painter known for his use of symbols from mythology to express his philosophical views.
My guest this…
2 years, 6 months ago