It's BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME over here-- and I want ArtCurious listeners to be the first to hear it! Pre-order your copy of Jennifer's new book,The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris-- available in hardcover from Bloomsbury this July! Travel with Jennifer: you have FOUR opportunities in 2025! Spain with Like Minds Travel (May) Paris with Arrangements Abroad (May) Paris with Like Minds Travel (September) Texas with Arrangements Abroad (October) Learn more about yo...
Jan 28, 2025•10 min
Join us for the thrilling conclusion of our virtual journey through Mexico City's cultural wonders! In this episode, we delve into unmissable experiences that showcase the city's vibrant art scene and rich cultural heritage. 🏛️ Highlights: Experience the captivating performances of Ballet Folklorico de México at the Palace of Fine Arts, celebrating Mexico's diverse folk traditions. Explore iconic murals of Mexican muralism, including Diego Rivera's "Man at the Crossroads," at the Palace of Fine...
Jun 03, 2024•15 min
Join us on an ALL-NEW episode as we take a Virtual Vacation to Mexico City! Today, we'll delve into the vibrant world of contemporary art-- from renowned galleries to innovative art fairs, we'll guide you through the city's bustling art scene. In Today's Episode: 🏙️ **Exploring Galleries:** - Discover Galería OMR, a longstanding player in Mexico City's art world, showcasing cutting-edge works in various mediums. - Dive into Kurimanzutto, known for its unconventional approach and support of expe...
May 20, 2024•19 min
🎙️ **ArtCurious Virtual Vacation: Mexico City Museums** Get ready for an art-filled adventure in Mexico City! Join us in an ALL-NEW podcast series as we explore the cultural treasures of this vibrant capital. From ancient artifacts to contemporary masterpieces, we'll take you on a journey through the city's most iconic museums. 🖼️ **Highlights:** - Private tour of the National Anthropology Museum, diving into Mexico's rich history. - Insider's look at Museo Jumex, featuring cutting-edge contem...
May 06, 2024•16 min
SURPRISE! We’re back with you for some bonus episodes of ArtCurious this spring! First up: we’re thrilled to announce an all-new tour this September with Like Minds Travel. Today on the show, we’re welcoming LMT’s Laura Hart to chat about group travel: how she puts together these incredible, special excursions, making friends all over the world, and all the details on our can’t-miss trip to Venice! Don’t forget to mark your calendars and register to join us in Venice - it's going to be an art-fi...
Apr 22, 2024•35 min
Today, it’s a very special episode of ArtCurious— and a big ol’ thank you, to you. If you’d like to donate to ArtCurious, please feel free to do so here. Episode Credits: Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Theme music by Alex Davis. Additional music by Storyblocks. Logo by Vaulted.co. ArtCurious is sponsored by Anchorlight, an interdisciplinary creative space, founded with the intent of fostering artists, designers, and craftspeople at varying stages of their development. Home to artist studios...
Dec 11, 2023•17 min
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Joanna Moorhead about her fantastic new biography, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington. The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystic...
Nov 13, 2023•39 min
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Jeannie Marshall about her lovely book, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context―but in the process, she a...
Oct 30, 2023•37 min
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed earlier this summer with author Patrick Bringley, all about his fantastic book about his time as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His book, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, is out now. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrest...
Oct 16, 2023•31 min
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: it’s our season finale, and my absolute favorite (tear-jerking!) story of the season: the epic love-and-lost story of Marina Abramović and Ulay. ...
Sep 18, 2023•33 min•Season 13Ep. 11
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’ve re-recorded and updated our original Season 1 double-header on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Check out their story here. Note that this is ...
Sep 04, 2023•30 min•Season 13Ep. 10
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’ve re-recorded and updated our original Season 1 double-header on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Check out their story here. Part two is coming...
Aug 21, 2023•32 min•Season 13Ep. 9
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: it’s one of the most collaborative, creative couples of the century— meet Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our...
Aug 07, 2023•31 min•Season 13Ep. 8
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed earlier this spring with author Annie Cohen-Salal, all about her wonderful new book, Picasso the Foreigner (translated by Sam Taylor). Before Picasso became Picasso—the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France’s leading figures—he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by th...
Jul 24, 2023•32 min
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: let’s get to know artists Remedios Varo and her first husband, Gerardo Lizzaraga. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLL...
Jul 10, 2023•35 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I absolutely loved this new book by author and journalist Michael Finkel, and I didn't want to wait any longer to share it with you. Finkel's latest book, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, is about the world's most prolific art thief-- and believe me, his story is stranger than fiction. If you’re anything like me, you love art-- and you also love a good and unbelievable true story about bad thin...
Jun 26, 2023•37 min
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re homing in on the early years of Lee Miller, model and photographer, and her years spent with surrealist Man Ray. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIE...
Jun 12, 2023•38 min•Season 13Ep. 6
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re homing in on the love affairs of Robert Rauschenberg, moving from Cy Twombly and on to Jasper Johns—a series of relationships that lasted o...
May 29, 2023•36 min•Season 13Ep. 5
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re discussing the lives and loves of Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify...
May 15, 2023•31 min•Season 13Ep. 4
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re enjoying the story of one supremely confident couple, incredibly supportive of one another and individually talented, two makers who epitom...
May 01, 2023•31 min•Season 13Ep. 3
This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re highlighting a powerful artist couple who taught at a landmark place at a singular moment in history—Anni and Josef Albers. Please SUBSCRIB...
Apr 17, 2023•38 min•Season 13Ep. 2
Hey friends, I have a show that I’d like to share with you today. It’s right up my personal alley--so much so that I made a similarly-themed season of ArtCurious a few years back. Today it’s a pleasure to introduce you to The Art of Crime. The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts--created, written, and narrated by Gavin Whitehead. Gavin notes that he has had an interest in things criminal and artistic for as long as he can remember, and ...
Apr 14, 2023•32 min
Sponsor ArtCurious for as little as $4 on Patreon Listeners, I heard you—a bunch of self-admitting hopeless romantics who wanted to hear more about people bound by attraction, fascination. By love. Though there are examples of romantic and sexual relationships between creators that are sprinkled throughout art history as we know it, it’s true that we have the most information about relationships from folks who lived in the last century—because we have greater access to documentation recording th...
Apr 03, 2023•34 min•Season 13Ep. 1
Hello ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 31, 2023. This week’s stories: CNN: Scientists identify secret ingredient in Leonardo da Vinci paintings NBC News: Unknown Jackson Pollock painting found in police raid in Bulgaria CNN: Rare print of Hokusai's 'Great Wave' sets new auction record AP News: Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest New Yor...
Mar 31, 2023•17 min
Hello listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 24, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Early After Plans for ‘Guerilla Art Installation’ by Climate Activists Leak CNN: Scientists confirm long held theory about what inspired Monet ArtNews: New Investigation Finds More than 1,000 Objects in Met’s Collection Linked to Antiquities Traff...
Mar 24, 2023•15 min
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. Instead of doing our typical Friday news cast, I’m sharing a recent discussion I had with author Damian Dibben about his latest novel, The Colour Storm. Set in the cutthroat art-world of Renaissance Venice, The Colour Storm is about the search for a new color. The daring young painter, Giorgione, is in the fight of his life to beat his rivals and find it first. It’s a searing tale of creation, ambition, rivalry and passion at one o...
Mar 17, 2023•37 min
Anyone familiar with Abstract Expressionism will tell you that this art movement was one where all the insiders or practitioners were more closely involved than many other art movements. Such close confines also made for some serious rivalries, too. But there were other artists who were more intimately involved with one another and their artistic process-- they were married, or were lovers. Such is the case with both Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning --both of whom married women who were inc...
Mar 13, 2023•27 min
Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 10, 2023. This week’s stories: The Art Newspaper: Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece in 'historic event' The Art Newspaper: Notre Dame to reopen in December 2024 ArtNews: University Faculty Vote Against Plan to Deaccession Paintings at Brauer Museum of Art The Art Newspaper: Archaeolog...
Mar 10, 2023•14 min
Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 3, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever The Art Newspaper: The must-see exhibitions in 2023: from the biggest ever show of Vermeer paintings to a history of hip-hop The Art Newspaper: The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continu...
Mar 03, 2023•14 min
Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! Jennifer here with your short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. This is ArtCurious News this Week and I’m ready to roll. Today is Friday, February 17, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening The Art Newspaper: Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs The Art Newspaper: Mysterious NFT collector—...
Feb 17, 2023•17 min
