Hello listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 24, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Early After Plans for ‘Guerilla Art Installation’ by Climate Activists Leak   CNN: Scientists confirm long held theory about what inspired Monet ArtNews: New Investigation Finds More than 1,000 Objects in Met’s Collection Linked to...

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. Instead of doing our typical Friday news cast, I’m sharing a recent discussion I had with author Damian Dibben about his latest novel, The Colour Storm. Set in the cutthroat art-world of Renaissance Venice, The Colour Storm is about the search for a new color. The daring young painter, Giorgione, is in the fight of his life to beat his rivals and find it first. It’s a searing tale of creation, ambition, rivalry and passion at...

Anyone familiar with Abstract Expressionism will tell you that this art movement was one where all the insiders or practitioners were more closely involved than many other art movements. Such close confines also made for some serious rivalries, too. But there were other artists who were more intimately involved with one another and their artistic process-- they were married, or were lovers. Such is the case with both Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning --both of whom married women who were...

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 10, 2023. This week’s stories: The Art Newspaper: Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece in 'historic event' The Art Newspaper: Notre Dame to reopen in December 2024 ArtNews: University Faculty Vote Against Plan to Deaccession Paintings at Brauer Museum of Art The Art Newspaper:...

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is Friday, March 3, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever The Art Newspaper: The must-see exhibitions in 2023: from the biggest ever show of Vermeer paintings to a history of hip-hop The Art Newspaper: The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings...

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! Jennifer here with your short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. This is ArtCurious News this Week and I’m ready to roll. Today is Friday, February 17, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening The Art Newspaper: Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs The Art Newspaper: Mysterious NFT...

I’ve got a great interview for you today— this time, I’m featuring a conversation with Julia Voss on her fascinating book, Hilma af Klint, a Biography, which was released recently in its English translation.  The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one...

Hello and how are you, ArtCurious listeners! Jennifer here with your short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. This is ArtCurious News this Week and I’m ready to roll. Today is Friday, February 10, 2023. This week’s stories: The Art Newspaper: Huge earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastate heritage sites including 2,000-year-old castle The Art Newspaper: Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin,...

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’m sharing an episode of the fun, all-ages art podcast, Who ARTed. Who ARTed is a show created by an art teacher with the goal of making art history fun and interesting for listeners of any age, so if you're looking for a show that you can enjoy with the kids, Kyle shares fun facts about everything from Mona Lisa to Mario. Today I’m sharing his recent mini-episode about Salvador Dalí, but be sure to check out Who ARTed’s daily...

Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, February 3, 2023. This week’s stories: BBC: Mystery portrait likely to be Raphael masterpiece The Guardian: Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt The Daily Mail: Don't use...

Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, January 27th, 2023. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Heirs Sue Guggenheim to Recover Storied Picasso Painting, Citing ‘Wrongful Possession’ WESH Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art placed on probation by...

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Another day, another nun! But Plautilla Nelli’s story is an interesting one, involving a...

Hi there, listeners. It’s Friday, which means that it is time for ArtCurious News this Week, our short-form news roundup meant to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. I’m your host, Jennifer Dasal, and we’ve got some great stories for you today, Friday, January 20th, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments Chicago Sun-Times: Ex-Art Institute payroll manager stole...

Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023. This week’s stories: New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing...

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today’s subject is a major one: Properzia de’ Rossi, a Renaissance sculptor who was (gasp!)...

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Finding a signed, confirmed work by Levina Teerlinc isn’t an easy task, as we know of no...

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, December 16, 2022. This week’s stories: ArtNews: Hamas Says 63 Roman-Era Tombs Found in the Gaza Strip ArtNews: Roman Treasure Stolen from British Museum After Metal...

Last year, I enjoyed a fantastic live conversation on Fireside with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jennifer. It only feels right to revisit her book, and our conversation, in connection with our current...

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: Artist-nuns are not rare: just look at the example of the famed Hildegard von Bingen,...

Welcome to a bonus episode of ArtCurious featuring my interview with Paul Fisher about his latest book, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World. An iconic American artist, John Singer Sargent was also a complicated and mysterious man. While presenting himself as a reserved, buttoned-up businessman, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the possessors of new money and old, while reserving his greatest...

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 18, 2022. This week’s stories: Black Trustee Alliance: The Art Museum Trustee Survey Ithaka S + R: Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2022 ArtNews and the Art...

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 11, 2022. This week’s stories: New York Times: Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records  New York Times: Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator...

For this season of ArtCurious, I’m doing something a little bit different. I’m treating you to renditions of eight of my favorite segments from Breaking Barriers: Women Artists of Renaissance Europe, my online course found exclusively at avid.fm. Every other week through January, I’ll share selections from Breaking Barriers, and encourage you that if you like it, you can purchase the whole course. Today: One of the earliest-known female printmakers in Europe, Diana Scultori (sometimes...

Happy Friday, listeners! It’s Jennifer, ArtCurious host, back at you this week with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 4, 2022. This week’s stories: The Guardian: Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show The Guardian: Protesters who targeted Girl with a...