Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Alma Thomas
Season 6
Alma Thomas was an amazing African American painter known for her abstract paintings with bold brush strokes that take on a mosaic quality.
Network Su…
2 years, 10 months ago
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Season 2
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a conceptual artist who became well known in the 1980s and 90s for his works that broke down the barrier between artist and…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Apollo 11 Stones
Season 6
The Apollo 11 Stones were not from the moon and really had nothing to do with the NASA mission, but they happened to be discovered as news of the moo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Arthur Boyd
Season 6
Arthur Boyd drew a lot of inspiration from religion, mythology and his own personal experiences. In the painting of Nebuchadnezzar on Fire Falling Ov…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jack Kirby
Season 6
Jack Kirby created some of the biggest names in the golden age of comics including: Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, Black Panther, The Incredibl…
2 years, 11 months ago
Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
Season 6
Robert Smithson decided to make monumental sculptures using perhaps the world’s oldest material, the earth itself, but he used modern tools to shape …
2 years, 11 months ago
Katsushika Hokusai
Season 6
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, 11 months ago
Wassily Kandinsky
Season 6
Wassily Kandinsky was an artist, teacher and art theorist in the early 20th century. His work was very influential in the development of modern, abst…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jackson Pollock
Season 6
In August of 1973, the Australian government bought a Jackson Pollock painting for $2 million. It was the highest price paid for work of an American …
2 years, 11 months ago
Hilma af Klint
Season 6
Hilma af Klint was a painter making abstract art years before men like Kandinsky and she was exploring automatic drawing long before the surrealists.…
2 years, 11 months ago