I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Julia Voss on her fascinating book, Hilma af Klint, a Biography, which was released recently in its English translation. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of t...
Feb 13, 2023•44 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 10, 2023. This week’s stories: The Art Newspaper: Huge earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastate heritage sites including 2,000-year-old castle The Art Newspaper: Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin, new ...
Feb 10, 2023•12 min
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’m sharing an episode of the fun, all-ages art podcast, Who ARTed. Who ARTed is a show created by an art teacher with the goal of making art history fun and interesting for listeners of any age, so if you're looking for a show that you can enjoy with the kids, Kyle shares fun facts about everything from Mona Lisa to Mario. Today I’m sharing his recent mini-episode about Salvador Dalí, but be sure to check out Who ARTed’s daily min...
Feb 08, 2023•10 min
Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, February 3, 2023. This week’s stories: BBC: Mystery portrait likely to be Raphael masterpiece The Guardian: Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt The Daily Mail: Don't use the wo...
Feb 03, 2023•15 min
Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, January 27th, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Heirs Sue Guggenheim to Recover Storied Picasso Painting, Citing ‘Wrongful Possession’ WESH Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art placed on probation by Ameri...
Jan 27, 2023•18 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Another day, another nun! But Plautilla Nelli’s story is an interesting one, involving a gre...
Jan 23, 2023•22 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, January 20th, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments Chicago Sun-Times: Ex-Art Institute payroll manager stole more th...
Jan 20, 2023•17 min
Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing a Pa...
Jan 13, 2023•20 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today’s subject is a major one: Properzia de’ Rossi, a Renaissance sculptor who was (gasp!) female....
Jan 09, 2023•19 min•Season 12Ep. 7
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Finding a signed, confirmed work by Levina Teerlinc isn’t an easy task, as we know of no sur...
Dec 19, 2022•21 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, December 16, 2022. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Hamas Says 63 Roman-Era Tombs Found in the Gaza Strip ArtNews: Roman Treasure Stolen from British Museum After Metal Detectorists ...
Dec 16, 2022•15 min
Last year, I enjoyed a fantastic live conversation on Fireside with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jennifer. It only feels right to revisit her book, and our conversation, in connection with our current seas...
Dec 12, 2022•44 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Artist-nuns are not rare: just look at the example of the famed Hildegard von Bingen, long p...
Dec 05, 2022•23 min•Season 12Ep. 5
Welcome to a bonus episode of ArtCurious featuring my interview with Paul Fisher about his latest book, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World. An iconic American artist, John Singer Sargent was also a complicated and mysterious man. While presenting himself as a reserved, buttoned-up businessman, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the possessors of new money and old, while reserving his greatest sympathies f...
Nov 28, 2022•36 min
Sponsor ArtCurious for as little as $4 on Patreon For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Lots of women artists have gotten a head-s...
Nov 21, 2022•24 min•Season 12Ep. 4
Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 18, 2022. This week’s stories: Black Trustee Alliance: The Art Museum Trustee Survey Ithaka S + R: Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022 ArtNews and the Art Newspaper:...
Nov 18, 2022•17 min
Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 11, 2022. This week’s stories: New York Times: Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records New York Times: Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Un...
Nov 11, 2022•13 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: One of the earliest-known female printmakers in Europe, Diana Scultori (sometimes identified...
Nov 07, 2022•27 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 4, 2022. This week’s stories: The Guardian: Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show The Guardian: Protesters who targeted Girl with a Pearl...
Nov 04, 2022•13 min
Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, FINALLY back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, October 28, 2022. This week’s stories: The Art Newspaper: Jo Bonger: the woman who made Van Gogh famous as one of the greatest artists of all time New York Times: Damaged ...
Oct 28, 2022•13 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: She might not have had the backing of royal patrons or the fancy aristocratic connections th...
Oct 24, 2022•27 min•Season 12Ep. 2
We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Picasso’s War, a recent book by journalist Hugh Eakin. Today we think of New York as the center of the twentieth century art world, but it took three determined men, two world wars, and one singular artist to secure the city’s cultural prominence. Pablo Picasso was the most influential and perplexing artist of his age, and the turning points of his career and salient facets ...
Oct 17, 2022•35 min
For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today, I’m sharing a story about the family of one of the most well-known female artists of the Ren...
Oct 10, 2022•27 min•Season 12Ep. 1
Hi listeners! I’ve been traveling over last month, and am preparing to hit the road again, and to begin sharing new episodes to your feed next week. So, things have been a bit busy over here. So while we put the finishing touches on next week’s episode, I’m re-airing one of my old favorites from the first season of the podcast. And guess what? It’ll prepare you nicely for the next season. Wink wink. Today, I’m returning to share the story of Sofonisba Anguissola, one of the most prominent female...
Oct 03, 2022•28 min
Here’s a preview from a new podcast, Death of the Artist, that explores a tragedy in the art world. For more than 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples: Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death, taking a closer look at how she might have fallen out of the window of Carl’s 34th floor New York apartment, and the following trial which has divi...
Sep 23, 2022•11 min
Hi listeners! As I mentioned last time on ArtCurious, I’m traveling this month and so I am re-airing some older episodes for you to enjoy here once again. In celebration of our recent “Cherchez La Femme” season, I’m choosing three of my favorite episodes on female artists-- Today, I’m returning to share the story of Romaine Brooks, a one-of-a-kind painter with a truly fascinating story. I hope you enjoy--and I’ll be back with you soon. Stay curious! Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple ...
Sep 19, 2022•30 min
Hi listeners! I’m traveling this month and so I am re-airing some older episodes for you to enjoy here once again. In celebration of our recent “Cherchez La Femme” season, I’m choosing three of my favorite episodes on female artists-- and, hint hint, the last of these episodes refers directly to our upcoming season, so keep your eyes peeled for that one next month. Today, though, I’m returning to tell the story of Angelica Kauffman, one of the prized painters of the 18th century. Enjoy--and than...
Sep 05, 2022•25 min
We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Light on Fire, the first comprehensive biography of the life and work of the abstract artist Sam Francis by award-winning author Gabrielle Selz. Drawing from exclusive interviews and private correspondence, including Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin, Selz traces Francis’s extraordinary and complex life. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify I...
Aug 29, 2022•35 min
I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Eden Collinsworth on her fascinating book, What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait. This extraordinary work of narrative non-fiction traces the remarkable history of Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic portrait: The Woman with an Ermine, from its original creation, including the fascinating story of its subject, Cecilia Gallerani, and on to its mysterious disapp...
Aug 15, 2022•37 min
This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is August 12, 2022. This week’s stories: Horniman Museum & Gardens: Horniman to return ownership of Benin bronzes to Nigeria NBC News: Woman swindled elderly mother out of art worth $140M using ‘psychics’ who claimed it was cursed, police say ArtNews: Archaeologists Rebury ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Ancient Roman Villa in England One Year After Its Discovery Getty ...
Aug 12, 2022•12 min
