The Cave of Apelles
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Aftur Nerdrum on Staging her Father's Play "The Last Days of Immanuel Kant"
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aftur Nerdrum joins us to explain the process of staging her father’s play, where Kant is confronted with the consequences of his aesthetics. Whic...
Culture Politics from a Libertarian and Stirnerian Perspective
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Should culture politics be treated from a libertarian, purist perspective where all government interference is bad — or is it more productive to tak...
Blake Snyder's Save the Cat! — How to Tell a Great Story through any Medium
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can painters and other types of poets use Blake Snyder's Save the Cat! to become better at their craft, or more importantly — become better stor...
A Dark Flame for Aristotle's Poetics — Painters, pay attention!
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can painters use Aristotle's Poetics to become better at their craft, or more importantly — become better storytellers? This is a 10 minute seg...
Ranking the Greatest Living Painters According to Objective Criteria with Bork Nerdrum
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bork Nerdrum, our own producer, appears on The Cave to reveal his ranking list of the greatest living painters, inspired by his father’s philosophy ...
Stefan Boulter on Icelandic Painting, its Corrupt Culture Politics, and Jung's Concept of the Shadow
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Boulter is an Icelandic painter. He touches on Jung’s shadow concept, how cancel-culture can affect what we create, and the base nepotism of ...
Toxic Femininity and Hidden Mythical Motifs in Henrik Ibsen's Plays
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The theater expert, Adara Ryum, makes her appearance to talk about the dramatist Henrik Ibsen and performance practice. Ryum points out how «updating...
Carl Korsnes on his Magazine Sivilisasjonen and Brentano's Four Phases of Philosophy
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is there an inevitable cycle that civilization is doomed to repeat — merely reenacting the fall of Rome — or can we break free from it? The bigges...
Ex-muslim Cemal Yucel on his Apostasy, Leftist Iconoclasm and Islamic Picture Ban in the West
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at history, has not cancel culture and the toppling of statues always been precursors of mass murder and ideological coup d'Ètats? The impor...
Exposing the Secrets of Great Storytelling with Kristofer Hivju
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to convince the audience — heartfelt inspiration or calculated deception? Imagine all the best stories being one and the same (or ...
An Illegal conversation with Boris Koller
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Demographics are changing. Old families are dying out and foreign belief systems are taking over. What happens when galleries close one after another ...
Einar Duenger Bøhn on Aristotle’s Tëchne, Objective Values and the Meaning of Life
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With Modernism, objective values were thrown overboard. Einar Duenger Bøhn, who teaches philosophy at the University of Agder in Norway, sees objecti...
Nic Thurman on the Memorosa Group, Edvard Munch's Decline and the Correct Signifiers of Kitsch
15 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Edvard Munch bow to Art after successfully emulating the techniques of the old masters? Perhaps the philosophy of kitsch could serve as a solu...
Eline Dragesund On Her Kitsch Collection, The History Of Clothing And Its Relation To Our Psyche
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I feel like it's time to take women a little bit off the fashion-horse", says the tailor who wants to shape men into cathedrals with her new brand, "...
How the State Established Fine Art and Why Figurative Painters are Underdogs in the Art World
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can one secure the independence of culture? Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian art sociologist Dag Solhjell who co-authored "On K...
Sebastian Salvo on Composition, the Early Renaissance and the Necessity of Competition
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are the objective rules of figurative, narrative painting, and was originality a concern at all in the Renaissance? Sebastian Salvo re-appears on...
Marcus Paus on the Challenges as a Romantic Composer in a Field of Dogmatic Modernists
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I have had mentors as well as tormentors," says Marcus Paus, the Norwegian composer, whose admiration for the craft of classical music has led to his...
Joakim Ericsson on the Florence Academy, Odd Nerdrum, and Fantasy Illustrations
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the former academic director at the Florence Academy of Sweden, Joakim Ericsson, who swapped painting for fantas...
How Aynd Rand's Aesthetics could serve as an Antidote to Kant's Influence
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the author and former leader of the Capitalist party in Norway, Vegard Martinsen. To celebrate the 50th annivers...
Cheng Wu on the Situation for Classical Figurative Painting in China, Li Cheng and Daoism
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Chinese portrait painter Cheng Wu. Wu talks about his experience of coming to Europe and being told at a Fre...
William Heimdal on his Journey from Don Rosa to Odd Nerdrum and the Old Masters
15 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian painter William Heimdal, also known as "Prince William." In this interview, Heimdal talks abou...
How a Swedish Painting ended up in Supreme Court
18 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Swedish painter and free speech advocate Markus Andersson, whose painting "Swedish Scapegoats," after bizarr...
Öde Nerdrum on his Father’s Workshop, Scruton's Beauty, and Advise to Collectors
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with Odd Nerdrum's son, who works alongside his father at the Nerdrum Studio in Norway and Sweden. This episode was produc...
Martin Romberg on his Music, Aesthetic Paradigms and the Freudian Death Drive
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian composer Martin Romberg, whose work is often influenced by literature such as The Silmarillion by J.R.R....
Per Lundgren on Hertervig, Odd Nerdrum's Transformation and the Nerdrum School
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian painter Per T. Lundgren about the tragic life of the great Scandinavian landscape painter Lars Hertervig...
Making Painting Great Again with Aristotle's Poetics
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian philosopher Carl Korsnes about Aristotle and his influence on Titian and the Renaissance. This episode ...
Boris Koller on Kitsch, the Art Police, and Art as the New Religion
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Austrian landscape painter Boris Koller. This episode was produced by Bork S. Nerdrum, assisted by Sebastian Salv...
Sebastian Salvo on the Incas, Nerdrum, and the Apelles Palette
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Chilean painter Sebastian Salvo. This episode was produced by Bork S. Nerdrum, assisted by Nic Thurman and Lasse ...