Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History
Episodes
Artist Spotlight: Lee Miller
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before she became one of the most important war photographers of the twentieth century, Lee Miller was known as a model, a fashion icon, and a muse wi...
Artist Spotlight: Hilma af Klint
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hilma af Klint may be one of the most important artists modern art history almost erased. Long before Kandinsky, Mondrian, or the official arrival of ...
Masterpiece Moment: Guernica
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are paintings you admire.And then there are paintings that refuse to let you look away.In this Masterpiece Moment, James William Moore dives int...
Movement in about 10 Minutes: Minimalism (audio)
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, James William Moore steps into the pristine white room of Minimalism and asks the ques...
Behind the Brush: Michelangelo vs The Ceiling Part 2 (audio)
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Part Two of Behind the Brush: Michelangelo vs. the Ceiling, James William Moore looks past the glory of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and into the gri...
Behind the Brush: Michelangelo vs The Ceiling Part 1 (audio)
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Sistine Chapel ceiling became a legend, it was a gamble. In Part One of Behind the Brush: Michelangelo vs. the Ceiling, James William Moore...
Artist Spotlight: Lee Krasner - More than Pollock's Wife
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
They called Lee Krasner a wife, a footnote, a supporting character in someone else’s masterpiece. But this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess o...
Art History Mystery: Gustav Klimt's The Golden Lady
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When is a masterpiece more than a masterpiece? In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, James William Moore follows the glitter...
Movement in about 10 Minutes: The Harlem Renaissance
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, James William Moore dives into the Harlem Renaissance—one of the most powerful cultu...
Masterpiece Moment: Hokusai's The Great Wave - The Print that Ate the World
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hokusai’s Great Wave may be one of the most recognizable images in art history—but it didn’t begin as a rare treasure meant for palace walls. It...
Movement in about 10 Minutes: DADA (audio)
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this Movement in about 10 Minutes episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History (presented by J-Squared Atelier), James William Moore dive...
Artist Spotlight: Caravaggio (audio)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rome, around 1600—alleyway Rome. Knife-in-the-boot Rome. A city where debts are loud, tempers are louder, and the shadows feel like they’ve got te...
Marcel Duchamp: The Fountain (audio)
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine walking into a gallery in 1917 and seeing… a urinal. Not in a restroom. Not in a hardware store. In the sacred, echoing temple of “taste.”...
Frida Kahlo: The Two Fridas
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this Masterpiece Moment, we step into the storm-lit space of Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas (1939)—a double self-portrait painted in the emotiona...
Pop Art
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pop Art is everywhere—on soup cans, comic panels, billboards, and celebrity faces. But this episode isn’t asking, “Is it beautiful?” It’s as...
David Hockney: Pools, Polaroids, & iPads
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A splash is the fastest thing in the world—blink-and-it’s-gone. So how did David Hockney turn a half-second event into an entire philosophy of loo...
When Art Gets Political (audio)
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History (presented by J-Squared Atelier), host James William Moore pulls back the curtain on th...
The Arnolfini Portrait: Secrets in the Mirror
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A portrait that refuses to sit still.In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, host James William Moore opens the case file on J...
Surrealism: Dreams, Freud, and Lobsters on Telephones
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we drop straight into Surrealism—where logic takes a back seat and the subconscious grabs the wheel. If you’ve ever seen a lobste...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Poet in Paint
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this Artist Snapshot episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History (presented by J-Squared Atelier), host James William Moore traces Jean-...
Behind the Brush: Photography vs. Painting
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the camera arrived in the 1800s, it didn’t just introduce a new gadget — it triggered a full-blown identity crisis for painters. In this epis...
The Sunset Set That Refused to Stay Lost
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A “lost” Van Gogh wasn’t stolen. It wasn’t destroyed. It was simply dismissed—and then left to gather dust in an attic beside Christmas orna...
Impressionism: Rebels with a Soft Focus
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the buzzing streets of 19th-century Paris, where bright new boulevards and a rapidly modernizing world were transforming everything—except...
Artemisia Gentleschi: The Woman Who Fought Back
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fierce and empowering Artist Snapshot, Art Happens dives into the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the Baroque painter who shattered expectation...
The Day the Mona Lisa Went Missing
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Leonardo da Vinci painted The Mona Lisa in the early 1500s, he couldn’t have guessed her fame would come not from her smile — but her disappe...
Welcome to Art Happens
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You think art history is boring? Think again.This isn’t your dusty museum lecture. This is Art Happens — where masterpieces meet messes, and the D...