How long do you typically look at an artwork, and what can you learn in that time? Let's talk about terms to help us discover how all art is influenced by the time and place it was made in.
Museums are so much more than just collections of interesting and pretty objects. Their legacy includes everything from violence to theft, to, oddly enough, mermaid hands.
In this episode, we’ll keep digging into the myth of the Great Artist, with whether we can—or should—separate artists’ personal actions and beliefs from the art they create.
Art is often understood as a solitary act of personal expression. But art is also the basis for community from Alaska to Mali — and from gay rights advocates to Frida Kahlo appreciators.
Let's learn what portraits and self-portraits can tell us about the people they represent and about artists who’ve used bodies to critique their societies.
Today, we’ll explore amateurs and outsiders and learn how the line separating who’s in and who’s out has shifted over time — and how influences have drifted across it
Independent public art like graffiti and street art often gets a bad rap, thanks to its legal classification as vandalism. But these art forms have much to offer
What’s the line between inspiration and flat-out appropriation? In this episode, we grapple with questions about artistic originality and authenticity that have plagued the art world for hundreds of years.
Art is the perfect tool for activists to get across their message and make people pay attention. Today, we’ll learn about the practice of iconoclasm and how art intersects with protest movements
Jeremiah Dickey describes the evolution of art in the public eye and explains how the modern viewer can see the history of art as an ongoing global conversation.