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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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Alma Thomas (encore)
Season 4
Alma Thomas was an amazing African American painter known for her abstract paintings with bold brush strokes that take on a mosaic quality.
Check out…
2 years, 8 months ago
Alfonse Mucha | Gismonda (encore)
Season 7
In honor of Alphonse Mucha's birthday, I thought I would post an encore of my mini episode about the poster that catapulted him to fame. In December …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | The Judgment of Hunefer
Season 4
This mini episode is about The Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts from ancient Egypt. To better understand the collection as well as th…
2 years, 8 months ago
Your Brain on Art (encore)
Season 7
I was asked to create an episode about how art affects the brain. I found there is quite a bit of research conducted by neuroscientists around the wo…
2 years, 8 months ago