Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNighthawk: One Word From Hopper's Diner to Stealth Jets and Routers
Episode 10946
A 1942 Edward Hopper painting, an Australian dragonfly, an illegal metal-detecting crime, and the Wi-Fi router in your living room all share one word…
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Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Fame and the Slav Epic He Chose Instead
Episode 10945
Alphonse Mucha defined the look of 1890s Paris with swirling floral posters of beautiful women, yet he rejected the Art Nouveau label and considered …
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Mount Rushmore: Sacred Land, Dynamite, and a 1.3 Billion Dollar Standoff
Episode 10944
Hidden in the rock behind Abraham Lincoln's head is an unfinished vault, the remnant of a planned Hall of Records. This episode treats Mount Rushmore…
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Piet Mondrian: From Dutch Windmills to Broadway Boogie Woogie
Episode 10943
In October 2022, curators discovered that Piet Mondrian's tape-and-paint work New York City had been hanging upside down for over 75 years, and decid…
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Marina Abramović: Rhythm 0, Ulay, and the Limits of Endurance Art
Episode 10942
In a Naples gallery in 1974, Marina Abramović stood still for six hours beside 72 objects, from a feather and a rose to a scalpel and a gun with a si…
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Marcel Duchamp: Readymades, Chess, and a Secret Final Masterpiece
Episode 10941
Marcel Duchamp reached the center of the art world, announced he was done, and spent decades playing chess, all while secretly building one final mas…
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Asylum Escape, and Mexican Rebirth
Episode 10940
Presented at court as a debutante in 1930s England, Leonora Carrington brought an Aldous Huxley novel and read it to opt out of the marriage market. …
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Lee Krasner: Abstract Expressionism Beyond Jackson Pollock's Shadow
Episode 10939
Lee Krasner got a barely passing 65 in high school art, was later accused of cheating because a self-portrait was too good, and received the backhand…
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Keith Haring: Subway Chalk, the Pop Shop, and Art as Activism
Episode 10938
In the early 1980s, a young artist dodged transit police in the New York subway to draw glowing, crawling babies in white chalk on blank black advert…
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Käthe Kollwitz: The Artist Who Turned Grief Into Anti-War Art
Episode 10937
At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1898, a jury nominated a print cycle for a gold medal and Kaiser Wilhelm II personally vetoed it, declaring tha…
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