Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Alfred Sisley | Flood at Port-Marly

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a pivotal figure in the Impressionist movement, uniquely distinguished by his unwavering devotion to landscape paintin...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Seagram Building

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a pivotal figure in 20th-century architecture, began his career in Germany, where he was deeply influenced by his early expo...

Artist Interview | Cristallina Fischetti

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fischetti’s work often explores "abstract medicine"—the idea that art can serve as a vehicle for healing and spiritual inquiry. Her background in ...

Fun Facts About Paint and Glitter

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am sharing a bit from my other podcast, Fun Facts Daily. It has been wonderful making Who ARTed for the last few years and the spring is alway...

Architect Interview | Alexander Josephson

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Josephson is a Toronto-based architect, lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, and the visionary co-foun...

Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Michelangelo was considered to be one of the greatest examples of a Renaissance man. He is also one of the worst examples of personal hygiene. Learn a...

Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Martinez belonged to the Tewa-speaking Pueblo people, known for their rich artistic heritage. Pottery-making was deeply rooted in Puebloan cultu...

The Treasures of King Tutankhamun's Tomb

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter prepared to enter the tomb of a little-known pharaoh. Nobody had set foot inside the space for over 3,000 years, b...

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1778, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun met Marie Antoinette at the Royal palace in Versailles. The queen had heard of Le Brun’s talent and asked to paint...

Artist Interview | Jason deCaires Taylor

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jason deCaires Taylor, is a UK-based contemporary artist who has seamlessly merged art and environmental activism. Renowned for his captivating underw...

Angkor Wat

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure in the world, located in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, it is de...

Claude Monet | Wheat Stacks

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My guest this week is Jen Leban from The Art of Education. For any fellow art teachers listening, check out The Art of Ed Community and I had the priv...

Artist Interview | Herb Williams

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Herb Williams is an incredibly talented sculptor bringing crayons to a whole new dimension. I sat down to talk to Williams about his background, his a...

Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre pain...

Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is not housed in a museum. It is in the Convent of Santa Maria in Milan Italy. It seems totally fitting fo...

The Aztec Calendar Stone

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Aztec Sun Stone, also known as the Calendar Stone, is a large, round stone carving that represents Aztec mythology and cosmology. It depicts the f...

Caravaggio | The Calling of Saint Matthew

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Michelangelo Merisi, born in 1571 amidst the darkness of the plague, would come to be known not by his christened name but by the name of his birthpla...

Rachel Whiteread | Embankment

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Whiteread is a prominent British sculptor and a leading figure among the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the late 1980s....

Jean-Antoine Houdon | George Washington

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jean-Antoine Houdon was one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors in the late 18th century. Shortly after the American Revolution, the governor of Vi...

William Blake | The Ancient of Days

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My guest this week is ⁠Mark Vernon⁠, author of ⁠Awake! William Blake and the Power of Imagination⁠. We discussed William Blake, the famous poe...

Johannes Vermeer | Woman Holding a Balance

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Johannes Vermeer created stunning works and he is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This painting, Woman Hold...

The Alexander Mosaic in the House of Faun, Pompeii

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a masterpiece of ancient Roman artistry that continues to captivate viewers with it...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a conceptual artist who became well known in the 1980s and 90s for his works that broke down the barrier between artist and ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat | Horn Players

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jean-Michel Basquiat has created some of the most highly valued American paintings ever to go on auction. Basquiat sought to remake art history in his...

Andy Warhol | Marilyn Diptych

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych is a commentary on the nature of fame, celebrity, and mass media. Warhol appropriated a well-known image of Monroe, usin...

Dale Chihuly | Seaforms

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly is a pioneering figure who transformed glass from a functional, industrial material into a celebrated...

The Longmen Grottoes

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

China's Longmen Caves or Longmen Grottoes are a UNESCO world heritage site. Starting in the 5th century CE, artists chiseled away at the limestone car...

Keith Haring | Three Eyed Smiley Face

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Haring, renowned for his iconic pop art and graffiti, rose to fame in the 1980s New York art scene. His signature style, characterized by bold l...

Jan van Eyck | The Arnolfini Portrait

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jan van Eyck was a remarkable painter. He worked in oils during the Renaissance, and created stunning photorealistic portraits centuries before photog...

Victory Vasarely

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist known for his innovative style and contributions to the Op Art movement. One of Vasarely's most famous w...

Bridget Riley | Movement in Squares

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bridget Riley, born in London in 1931, is a prominent figure in the Op Art movement. Early life experiences, including wartime evacuation to Cornwall ...

Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goa...

The Deesis Mosaic in the Hagia Sophia

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Deesis mosaic, located in the South Gallery of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, is a monumental work of Byzantine art dating back to approxim...

Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling Water

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous and influential architects. He famously said, "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. I...

Gustav Klimt | The Kiss

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" is an iconic Art Nouveau painting, renowned for its use of gold leaf and intricate patterns. The painting depicts a couple e...

Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Salvador Dali's most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory from 1931. The painting is surprisingly small just 9 ½ by 13 inches or slightly lar...

Rene Magritte | The Son of Man

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rene Magritte's painting, Son of Man, is among the most famous images of the Surrealist Movement. It is one of the few artworks that transcends the mu...

Lee Krasner | Little Images

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Krasner, born Lena Krassner in 1908, was a pivotal Abstract Expressionist artist often overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. Despite th...

Jackson Pollock | Number 11 (Blue Poles)

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In August of 1973, the Australian government bought a Jackson Pollock painting for $2 million. It was the highest price paid for work of an American a...

Jacques-Louis David | The Oath of the Horatii

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joind once again by Tim Bogatz, host of Art Ed Radio from The Art of Education University. Writing for The Art o...

Janet Sobel

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When you think of bold and revolutionary modern artists from the 20th century, you probably don't think of a grandmother laying across her living room...

Edward Hopper | Nighthawks

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The brilliance of Edward Hopper is that he was able to be simultaneously specific and concrete yet vague and leave a lot up to the viewer to interpret...

Thomas Hart Benton

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

American artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was a leading figure of the Regionalist movement, known for his dynamic depictions of American life, la...

Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creati...

Wayne Thiebaud | Pie a la Mode

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Wayne Thiebaud is known for his paintings of everyday objects. Born in 1920, Thiebaud's early experiences as a sign painter and an apprentice animator...

The Ardabil Carpet

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Ardabil Carpet, a masterpiece of 16th-century Persian weaving, represents a pinnacle of Safavid art. Though associated with Ardabil, scholars sugg...

Constantin Brâncuși | The Kiss & Bird in Space

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor who made a significant impact on modern art through his abstract sculptures. His passion and dedication ...

Wifredo Lam | The Jungle

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Wifredo Lam was a visionary artist whose work seamlessly blended the diverse influences of his multicultural heritage with the avant-garde movements o...

Amedeo Modigliani

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Amedeo Modigliani, a rebellious Italian painter, left a lasting mark on the art world with his distinctive style and captivating portraits. Born in Li...

Auguste Rodin | The Burghers of Calais

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today's mini-episode is rebroadcast of one of my favorites, Auguste Rodin and his sculpture of The Burghers of Calais. The story behind the piece is a...

Alfonse Mucha | Gismonda

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In December 1894, Alphonse Mucha just happened to be in the print shop checking some proofs for a friend, when in walked an actress, Sarah Bernhardt i...

Eadweard Muybridge | The Horse in Motion

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pioneering 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in capturing movement, which laid the foundation for...

Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Bay was painted in 1963 as Frankenthaler had refined her soak and stain process. While Mountains and Sea was made with diluted oil paints, The Bay...

Romero Britto | Mona Cat

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From humble beginnings in Recife, Brazil, to international acclaim in Miami, Florida, Romero Britto has redefined the boundaries of contemporary pop a...

Saloua Raouda Choucair | Interform

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Saloua Raouda Choucair was a pioneer of abstract art born in Beirut in 1916. Despite initial discouragement, she pursued her passion for art, studying...

Ibrahim El-Salahi | The Inevitable

10 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ibrahim El-Salahi is a pivotal figure in Sudanese and African modernism. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, El-salahi's artistic journey began with the ...

Marc Chagall | I and the Village

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal, 1887-1985) was a prominent Russian-French modern artist whose life spanned nearly a century of dramatic historical c...

Henri Matisse | Goldfish

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Henri Matisse was born in Northern France on December 31, 1869. His father was a successful grain merchant. In 1887, Henri was well on his way to a su...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Renoir is remembered as one of the greatest painters of the Impressionist movement. His paintings are soft and delicate, but his life and his w...

Ansel Adams | Monolith, the Face of Half Dome

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was an iconic American photographer renowned for his dramatic black and white landscapes, particularly of Yosemite National Pa...

El Anatsui | Old Man's Cloth

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

El Anatsui is a leading contemporary sculptor born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. Trained at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Anatsu...

Peter Paul Rubens International Man of Mystery

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Paul Rubens wasn't your typical 17th-century artist. He produced magnificent Baroque masterpieces, his canvases overflowing with vibrant colors ...

Maya Lin | Vietnam Veterans Memorial

03 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was established to honor those who died in the Vietnam War. Jan Scruggs, a veteran of the conflict, spearheaded the crea...

Elaine de Kooning | Portrait of John F. Kennedy

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) was a vital figure in 20th-century American art. She was a renowned Abstract Expressionist painter, portraitist, and wri...

Willem de Kooning

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Willem de Kooning, a Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist painter, was born in Rotterdam in 1904. He stowed away on a freighter in 1926, eventually s...

The Erased Masterpiece - Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is kicking off Arts Madness season. Every spring, listeners vote for their favorites in a bracketed tournament of 64 different artists. A...

The 57th Street Art Fair

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, I wanted to focus on the business side of art by looking at art fairs. I interviewed Amy from the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago...

Titian | Bacchus and Ariadne

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tiziano Vecellio, known simply as Titian, stands as the central figure of the Venetian Renaissance, dominating the art world for over sixty years with...

Frederic Edwin Church | Aurora Borealis

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Frederic Edwin Church stands as a titan of nineteenth-century American art, renowned for transforming landscape painting into a high-stakes blend of s...

Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara in a Green Bugatti

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tamara de Lempicka remains the definitive icon of the Art Deco era, blending polished Cubist techniques with the glamorous, high-stakes atmosphere of ...

David Hunt | Earthboard

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My guest this week is David Hunt, the creator of Earthboard. Earthboard is an earth-sized collaborative mural where you claim real-world locations and...

Pierre de Coubertin & Other Artists Winning Medals at the Olympics (encore)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From 1912 to 1948, medals were awarded for artistic creations inspired by sport, alongside those for athletic prowess. This unique fusion of disciplin...

Domenico Ghirlandaio | The Adoration of the Shepherds

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Domenico Ghirlandaio stands as a titan of the Quattrocento, often overshadowed by his most famous student, Michelangelo, yet serving as the vital brid...

Max Ernst | Forest and Dove

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

German artist Max Ernst was a pivotal figure in modern art history, bridging the anarchic rebellion of the Dada movement with the psychological depths...

Matthew Davis | The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mount Rushmore has a complicated and fascinating history. Long before the faces of American presidents were carved into the granite face of the mounta...

Hahn v Duveen | The Case of the American Leonardo (encore)

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An artist’s skillful application of paint will make an artwork good, but a good story makes that artwork great. In 2010, a painting went on auction ...

Tony Starg and the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloons

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is recognized globally as a holiday spectacle, but it also stands as one of the world's largest exhibitions of pu...

The Highwaymen

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the racially segregated 1950s, a group of twenty-six African American artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, defied the economic limitations of the Jim...

Peter Elliott | Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My guest this week is Peter Elliott, author of the new book, Looted! The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Families in France. Tens of thousands of artworks wer...

El Greco | The Burial of the Count Orgaz

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, was a singular figure in art history who bridged the gap between Byzantine tradition and Western m...

10 Prehistoric Artworks

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Explore a global journey through prehistoric art, from the earliest figurative works in Africa to foundational pieces in the Americas, Europe, and Asi...

Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night (encore)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could ...

Sand Mandalas (encore)

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Buddhist monks of Tibet who are known for their tradition of sand mandalas destroy the work after completing it. The word mandala comes from Sansk...

Hans Holbein the Younger | The Ambassadors (encore)

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Holbein the Younger painted The Ambassadors in 1533. It is a massive, life sized double portrait filled with symbolism that gives us insights int...

Emma Stebbins | Industry & Commerce

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My guest for this episode is Karli Wurzelbacher, curator for The Heckscher Museum of Art. She shared her insights into Emma Stebbins, a great neoclass...

Edgar Degas (encore)

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Degas is famous for his beautiful depictions of ballet dancers, but he was also giving a glimpse into the tough reality those dancers experienced. Ed...

Artist Interview | Laurie Roberts

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week I have part two of my interview with Laurie Roberts. Last week, she shared insights into Larry Roberts, her late husband. He made beautiful ...

Giovanni Battista Lombardi | Veiled Woman

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1822-1877) was a prominent Italian sculptor of the 19th century, originally from Rezzato, near Brescia. After moving to Ro...

Larry Roberts | From the Beginning

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Roberts was a Chicago-based artist best known for his abstract paintings with rich colors and textures. I was able to interview Laurie Roberts, ...

Bridget Riley | Movement in Squares (encore)

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bridget Riley, born in London in 1931, is a prominent figure in the Op Art movement. Early life experiences, including wartime evacuation to Cornwall ...

Artist Interview Tyler Loftis | The Shell

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Loftis is a contemporary artist based out of New York. Loftis developed a practice rooted that respects traditional practices like drawing and p...

Jeff Koons | Pink Panther (encore)

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Koons, born in 1955, displayed an early interest in art. As a teenager, he called Salvador Dali's hotel and arranged to meet the artist. He was i...

TLDR Le Corbusier | Villa Savoye

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was a pioneer of modern architecture whose ideas reshaped our urban landscapes. A Swiss-born, French-na...

TLDR Medieval Architecture

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Medieval European architecture is defined by two major successive styles: Romanesque and Gothic. Romanesque architecture (c. 1000–1200 CE) is charac...

TLDR Tarsila do Amaral

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Explore the life and work of Tarsila do Amaral, a foundational artist of Brazilian modernism and one of the most celebrated figures in Latin American ...

TLDR Illuminated Manuscripts

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Illuminated manuscripts are the stunning, handcrafted books of the medieval world, created through a meticulous process in monastery workshops known a...

Introducing If Objects Could Talk

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I am putting a special bonus episode in the feed this week to share a new podcast from Getty. If Objects Could Talk is a great family friendly podcast...

TLDR Ibrahim El-Salahi | The Inevitable

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My TLDR episodes are meant to be short and to the point with a few key facts to know about the artist and a look at one of their major works. This epi...

TLDR Georgia O'Keeffe | Sky Above Clouds IV

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My TLDR episodes give a short and sweet overview with a few interesting facts about a great artist. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) stands as a foundati...

TLDR Claude Monet | Water Lilies

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As it is back to school season, I thought I would try making a series of episodes that are short and to the point to give students and anyone else int...