Magic Mind helped fuel our noggins during the making of this episode -to give your brain some choice fuel, use ARTSLICE20 for 20-48% off your order ! VIDEO VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/9Y4po7xiX5o We’re back with the 2nd dose of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE series, featuring the mysterious 1944 lithograph “Whodunit?” by artist, illustrator, printmaker and children’s book author: Wanda Gág! We also discuss her work bringing German fairy tale energy to children’s literature in “Millions of Cats” ...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Our SCARY releases continue . . . well, RE-RUN in this case. WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/hYONIhxxKUQ In celebration of our new 2025 Creature Double Feature episodes, we went back to the vault and added VISUALS to our Creature Feature episode with Japanese printmaker Hokusai (1760-1849) and Celtic Spook School alum Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933) and their terrifying contributions to spooky art history. Both works were inspired by female protagonists who were WRONGED: one from ancient ...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 4 min
We are back with another edition of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE where we discuss TWO different artworks by TWO different artists and compare what makes them so terrifying! Video version ⟶ https://youtu.be/NpOsfts4sgU Usually, we are able to squeeze them into one episode but not this time! And we kick off our 2025 CDF edition with illustrator, painter, and stained glasser Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Harry hailed from Dublin, Ireland and grew up during the Celtic Revival. Harry was just as popular f...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Listeners, we are excited to share a very special interview with Orna Tsultem, curator and art historian of Mongolian art, where we dive into the origins of Mongol Zurag, the art of resistance. We cover A LOT of images in this one so we highly recommend watching when you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QchXwHybmfk&ab_channel=ArtSlicePod You can also follow along here: https://www.artslicepod.com/episodes/mongol-zurag-art-of-resistance In this episode, we discuss the origins of...
Jan 30, 2025•50 min
To watch ➬ mosey on over here ➬ : https://youtu.be/3H3ittr_RNY We present a very special bonus interview with Emily A. Beeny, Chief Curator at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco about the Mary Cassatt At Work exhibition. Since her day, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) has been known for her paintings of bébés and upper class women but there’s another layer - a radical one - that has been overlooked until now. Join us as we discuss how this new exhibition explores the idea of labor surrounding Cassatt’...
Dec 05, 2024•38 min
WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION HERE (and if you do please like, subscribe, and comment - we are trying to get our videos some traction): https://youtu.be/vQZ0yMxdfuE ¡ ¡ W E ‘ R E B A C K, Y ’ A L L ! ! This time getting lost in the weird and wonderful world of painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s early works (Part 1) that feature wonky landscapes populated by dream logic, lumpy babies, curvaceous women, angular farm animals, and Japanese folk tales as well as American folk influences...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Watch the video version here (if you do - please like, subscribe, and comment as we are trying to get our videos more recognition): https://youtu.be/YN-jTDR2spY ¡ ¡ W E ‘ R E B A C K, Y ’ A L L ! ! and diving into the origins of La Catrina, the quintessential skelicon of Day of the Dead. Over the past 100ish years, her image has transcended borders, becoming synonymous with sugar skulls, Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe and even Santa Muerte. From her first incarnation by Mexican printmaker ...
Nov 04, 2024•34 min
Jack Shoulder and Mark Small of Museum Bums fame take us on a curvy tour of Art Historical Gluteal Clefts! If you’d rather watch - you can do so here: https://youtu.be/1mCpKG4nuoU Topics include counting museum rumps, apotropaic blessings from Goddesses heinies, Kappa Yokai looking for soul spheres in your rear… We’re all still stumped about what was up with Hieronymus Bosch’s… erhm… interest in butts. And of course, the coded queerness hiding just between the cheeks of artists like Michelangelo...
Feb 29, 2024•53 min
In this Purple Bonus episode, we break down some weird decorative object history with Ben Miller from Curious Object podcast. We get into a Japanese inspired Tiffany and Co. Chocolate Pot from 1876 made of mixed materials including ivory and silver featuring cabbage leaf and lobster motifs. If you’d like to watch instead of listen, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/Cd0qffwnEXE Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/artslicepod and/or grab some merch: https://www.artslicepod.com/shop Jo...
Jan 30, 2024•53 min
Want to watch instead of listen? Do so here: https://youtu.be/Qw4YLLwleD0 For its SEVENTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you the extra-spectral, enigmatic (and sometimes controversial) PURPLE - and we have artist, illustrator, animator and (duncle) Caldwell Tanner of Not Another DnD Podcast (NaddPod), Drawfee, Big City Greens - on deck to help sort it out. Is it actually violet? Or have color manufacturers fudged the visuals? Or i...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 36 min
We are so excited to share a new series from our Canadian podcast friends Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North A series about a group of artists known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation (PNIAI) or as they were dubbed by the press: the Indigenous Group of Seven. This was significant because the most famous Euro-Canadian painters then were known as the Group of Seven which put respect on their name - especially for Indigenous artists who were still thought of as less than their...
Nov 22, 2023•32 min
Want to watch instead of listen? Do so here: https://youtu.be/8qKNVCNWQaA For its SIXTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you our most controversial color so far. . . PINK (!!!) Is this color just a light red? Or is the extra-spectral tone of our… life… energy…? We dig through the history, characteristics, and your color associations with, artist, curator, activist - and creator of the Pinkest Pink - Stuart Semple @stuartsemple And t...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Today we have a lil spooky BONE-US - chat with Rumwolf - a multi-disciplinary installation artist, - his work often includes combinations of animation, film, painting, printmaking, and sculpture whose works are inspired by horror and general spookiness ~ BUT also he’s a musician and visual production specialist…as well as a Hallo-Event-Creator. We get into his non-traditional path to art making, horror as a genuine influence to art making, as well as his specially curated Halloween picks. Suppor...
Oct 31, 2023•38 min
Listeners, we present to you… the FULLY UNLOCKED… Great Surrealist Paint Off! Formerly a Patreon bonus episode from last December (since we are running a bit behind on our next release) We cover the 1947 International Bel Ami Surrealist Art Competition featuring famous and lesser known artists to have their work featured in a Hollywood picture. We HIGHLY recommend following along on YouTube because we cover A LOT of images in this one - it’s a wild ride: https://youtu.be/eQS9Ze7EL8w Advertising ...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 53 min
We are back (!) picking up where we left off with Francisco de Goya in PART ONE as we finally discuss Los Caprichos, but not before diving into the revelatory hidden imagery in La familia de Carlos IV, and Goya's infamous witch series: Witches' Flight, The Spell, Witches' Sabbath, The Witches' Kitchen, and The Bewitched Man / Devil's Lamp. We also address the myth that Goya went ‘crazy’ after a certain point in his life. Turns out, the answer was ‘no’ but also not that simple...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min
We got to sit down with artist, writer & choreographer Matty Davis for our first ever in-studio interview to get all the details of Die No Die (Arkansas) including how much Arkansas history and landscape, particularly around The Momentary, inspired the work. We also discuss how he went from building treehouses and skate rails in the suburbs, to creating performance art and experimental publications. If you’re in or near-ish to NWA ~ Matty Davis’ will perform Die No Die (Arkansas) at The Mome...
Aug 02, 2023•24 min
TRAVEL WITH US! Fill out our very brief travel survey at artslicepod.com/travel While we wrap up our series on Goya's Los Capricho's enjoy this dive into the tumultuous history of the Majos / Majas - which is filled with secretive Duchess, working class riots, street style, lacy mantillas, and goo... yes goo... Including Goya's infamous Maja Desnuda & Maja Vestida portraits. Want to WATCH this episode? It's here bb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-kpKkOJtA&ab_channel=A...
Jun 06, 2023•44 min
TRAVEL WITH US!!! Go to www.artslicepod.com/travel to take a quick 2 min survey and let us know WHERE do you want to go? WHAT do you want to see? WHEN would you like to go? We are officially back for Season Dos of Art Slice with Francisco Goya’s epic series of 80 prints - Los Caprichos. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9US22i0iE&t=2717s&ab_channel=ArtSlicePod But before diving in, we look at Goya’s early career which coincided with the rise of French imported ...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Season two of Art Slice is imminent and we are super excited! The episodes we have in the tank are so much fun and we can’t wait to share them with you all. Here is a preview of some upcoming eps featuring guests artist/activist Stuart Semple, curator Seema Rao, and artist/animator Caldwell Tanner. Be sure to subscribe to us on YOUTUBE for upcoming episodes - don’t worry, they will still be released to your podcast feeds!~ Also . . .we are thinking of taking a trip abroad and you are invited! Th...
Apr 28, 2023•10 min
What do you call it when a second serving of Art History is larger than your first serving??? We dig into the 1940’s - where Surrealism is having its day in Hollywood… ultimately leading to a painting competition between Ivan Albright, Eugene Berman, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini (sort of), Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi, Horace Pippin, Abraham Rattner, Stanley Spencer, and Dorothea Tanning…to be featured in full on technicolor in the film The Private Affairs o...
Dec 30, 2022•12 min
For its fifth installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies (finally) presents a true primary color. . . COBALT BLUE with guest Isabella Segalovich @interstellar_isabellar on TikTok and Instagram - Professor of Interior Design at Kean University and member of the New York Crit Club faculty. She is also a writer, teacher, and content creator who educates on the intersections of art, design, and politics and regular contributor to Hyperallergic. Support ...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 24 min
In this week’s episode, Stephanie and Russell discover the many versions of second generation, multidisciplinary Surrealist Dorothea Tanning and dive into a few works from her nearly century long, prolific career: Birthday , oil on canvas from 1942; soft sculpture installation, Hotel du Pavot, Chambre 202 from 1970-73; and in a Patreon exclusive Midi et demi (Half Past Noon, oil on canvas, 1956-57. From small town Midwest roots to New York City hustling waiting for her big break, Dorothea’s earl...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 7 min
For its fourth installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color (not a color) Theory and Color Studies presents . . . BLACK. Join us as we discuss a brief history of the color BLACK beginning with how scientifically, it’s ‘a color not a color’ then onto the pigments and its utilization by artists since prehistoric times, through the Renaissance, Post-Impressionism until today which includes some artist feuds involving the blackest man-made pigment ever*. And lastly, we also dig i...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min
In this Second Slice of Art History, we dig into the lesser known Dorothea Tanning work - her prismatic or insomnia works from the 1950s. To get access to this episode and support Art Slice, head on over to: www.patreon.com/artslicepod MUSIC: Scanglobe - Undulation (Remix) We are just gonna say it: August...absolutely... kicked our butts. It’s like when you're creating something, it doesn't quite turn out how you want it to - like that painting in the studio that you just can't look ...
Aug 31, 2022•2 min
In this Second Slice of Art History, we dig into a very early work of Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Comet (aka Night Rider)’ from 1910, and discuss how it bookends (burger buns) his late period work perfectly. We also, share some of OUR earliest work… you can support this show, get access to this episode and other bonus material all at: www.patreon.com/artslicepod Buon Appetito! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Jul 21, 2022•2 min
For its third installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies presents . . . FLUORESCENT YELLOW. Join us as we discuss FLUORESCENT YELLOW’s history that all started in a DayGlo lab and its far reaching effect on everything from military warfare, fashion, subversive pop culture, music and art history. We also dig into our associations - which ranged from danger/caution, eeriness, youth, and nightlife - with FLUORESCENT YELLOW through data compiled by the ...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
We are back (!) and in this episode, we pick up where we left off in Episode 14 to discuss Hilma's life between 1908-1915. We dismantle the misconstrued studio visit with Rudolf Steiner that paints him as a ruthless, dream-crushing villain. We unpack what abstraction is and what it's used for: what might have she thought of Wassily Kandinsky's work at the Baltic Exhibition? ...and of course - The Swan - an allegorical diagrammatic, symbol loaded, interplainensional matryoshka doll, g...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 16 min
In its second episode, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies presents . . . MAGENTA. Join us as we discuss MAGENTA’S history involving flowery military uniforms, CMKY, cease and desist letters, and Charles Burchfield. We also get into the weeds regarding our associations with MAGENTA through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants. Pick up some honest to god amazing coffee from Mother Tongue! Use the offer code ARTSLICE at checko...
May 05, 2022•57 min
In this Second Slice of Art History, things get kind of wild as we try new mics and new drinks as well as discuss Bernini’s trippy work that is Memorial of Maria Raggi from 1647-1653 made of marble and bronze! www.patreon.com/artslicepod Buon Appetito! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Apr 29, 2022•1 min
Stephanie and Russell are back to discuss the wild intersection of two unlikely figures - Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Spanish nun Saint Teresa of Avila - that results in the controversial, monumental masterpiece that is The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-52). See all the images we discuss at artslicepod.com or on our instagram @artslicepod You can support us on Patreon here and/or grab some merch: https://www.artslicepod.com/shop Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a pure talent with resources to n...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 15 min
