Art History for All
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 28: No Foolin’
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability history,&...
Episode 27: The Incredible Flying Kris
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast returns as sharp as ever with a discussion of an example of a Malaysian blade called a kris! Allyson talks about the transition…
Episode 26: The Case of Ingapirca
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Allyson returns refreshed after a quarantine-induced slump to tell you all about Ingapirca, an Inka archaeological site whose function has been obscur...
Episode 25: Aboriginal Glyph
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AH4A is back with an examination of Margaret Preston’s 1958 work Aboriginal Glyph, and lots of thoughts about what it means for a white woman...
Episode 24: A Place to Rest
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of food for thought in this episode as Allyson discusses a Shona headrest from Zimbabwe in the Met’s collection: how do such objects come&#...
#podcastblackout
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblackout, a move...
Episode 23: Rock Steady
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AH4A is back with an episode that ROCKS! Allyson discusses the rock art at Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil, and what its story…
Episode 22: Gilded Gingerbread
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An icon of the head of John the Baptist (c. 1680) from Yaroslavl is the focus of this last episode of 2019, prompting a discussion of how Russia has b...
Episode 21: A Paintbrush in Her Hand
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous Canadian artist Daphne Odjig's painting Bathed in Sunlight (1983) and the larger story of Odjig's career prompt us to think about Native a...
In Focus: Conservation Horror Stories
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's Halloween 2K19 and Allyson is sharing a very specific type of horror story--art conservation horror stories! Listen in, and then share your own t...
Episode 20: Big Odalisque Energy
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind--in this episode, Allyson tells you a...
Episode 19: The Casco and the Yacht
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Allyson discusses Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Girls with Baskets (1966), and how colonialism, class, and global politics affect even th...
Episode 18: As Much Worker as Woman
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Allyson discusses Myra Albert Wiggins's The Lacemaker (1899, Portland Museum of Art), workin' hard for the money, and types of labor that we might no...
Episode 17: First Lady to Travel Over Sea
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Mahlangu's Untitled, 2008 has simple geometry, but a complex context--Allyson talks about its connections to commerce, soccer, and... BMWs?
Episode 16: Invasion of the Night
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's a mind-bending episode as Allyson guides you through Roberto Matta's surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its co...
Episode 15: Compared to Rocks and Mountains
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Allyson guides you through the eleventh-century Chinese handscroll painting Summer Mountains, (北宋 傳屈鼎 夏山圖 卷) by little-known painter...
Episode 14: Happiness and Color
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Allyson teaches you all about québécoise painter and stained glass artist Marcelle Ferron, whose windows at the Champ-de-Mars Métro station in Mont...
Episode 13: Namatjira’s Creek
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Allyson goes down under and discusses the life of Albert Namatjira, his watercolor painting Catherine Creek, Northern Territory (circ...
Episode 12: Wrecked
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In ...
Episode 11: Suspended on a Golden Chain
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hagia Sophia has had many lives over the centuries: from church, to mosque, to secular museum, it’s always taken center stage in its city, wheth...
Episode 10: A Sketch of Native American History
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode gets a bit obscure and focuses on a single woodcut from David Cusick’s 1828 book Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nation...
Episode 9: Fiends, Frankenstein, and Fuseli
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re getting spooky in this episode and looking at Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, by far one of the eeriest paintings in Wes...
Episode 8: In Memory of Malcolm
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a bit more multidimensional, mainly because we’re talking about a sculpture! Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Malcolm X #3 is titl...
Episode 7: Painting of Interest
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The game is afoot as we investigate the theft of Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert–or, more accurately, investigate how that theft affects h...
Episode 6: Fly Like An Eagle
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Get your shutter fingers ready, because in this episode we’re talking about a photograph! Specifically, Laura Aguilar’s Three Eagles Flyi...
Episode 5: Hip to Be Square
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brace yourselves, listeners, because in this episode Allyson gets abstract and discusses Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, often hailed as the e...
Episode 4: Do the Wave
19 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we dip our toe into the Asian art pool and talk about Hokusai’s Great Wave, its origins, and the many many transformations it has...
Episode 3: In Love with the Rococo
15 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a very self-indulgent episode, Allyson talks about her favorite period in art history, and one of her favorite artists: Rosalba Carriera, who did a...
Episode 2: Why Oh Wiley
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Allyson gets topical and talks about a Kehinde Wiley painting–but maybe not the one you think! You can find a transcript ofR...
Episode 1: For the Love of Mona Lisa
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Art History for All! In this episode, Allyson tells you all about Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and the imp...