Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
Who Arted is art history and art education for everyone. While most art history podcasts focus on the traditional "fine art" we see in museums around the world, Who ARTed celebrates art in all of its forms and in terms anyone can understand. Each episode tells the story of a different artist and artwork including the traditional big names like Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol along with lesser-known artists working in such diverse media as video game design, dance, the culinary arts, and more. Who Arted is written and produced by an art teacher with the goal of creating a classroom resource that makes art history fun and accessible to everyone. Whether you are cramming for your AP Art History exam, trying to learn a few facts so you can sound smart at fashionable dinner parties, or just looking to hear something with a more positive tone, we’ve got you covered with episodes every Monday and Friday.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 641
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Faith Ringgold | Dancing at the Louvre
Faith Ringgold is a contemporary American artist. She studied art education and started as a painter, but she is best known for her story quilts. She has written and illustrated seventeen children's …
00:09:29 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery
Maria Martinez belonged to the Tewa-speaking Pueblo people, known for their rich artistic heritage. Pottery-making was deeply rooted in Puebloan culture, serving as a means of artistic expression and…
00:12:38 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay
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 is acrylic on unprimed canvas. She had found tha…
00:18:34 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Thomas Jefferson | Monticello
Thomas Jefferson may be a surprising person to find in an art history podcast, but the writer of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the US was also a self-taught architect. Monticell…
00:08:52 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Horn Players
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 image, and I would say he was successful. His tr…
00:10:05 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
JMW Turner | The Slave Ship
Turner's painting of The Slave Ship from 1840 was originally titled "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying" and the event that inspired this work is exactly as horrific as it sounds. The capt…
00:10:27 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Raphael | The School of Athens
While Raphael sadly passed away just in his 30s his work has lived on for hundreds of years. Learn a bit about the great Renaissance painter and architect as well as his most famous work, The School …
00:11:07 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (mini)
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 little bit about the artist who painted the ceil…
00:14:07 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper
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 for a depiction of the last supper was painted on the…
00:10:05 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Donatello | David
Donatello’s statue of David, just like the story, seems straightforward and simple at first glance, but with great art, there is always more than meets the eye. His bronze statue of the boy who slaye…
00:11:32 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creation is an absolutely massive painting about 9 feet t…
00:12:04 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Jan van Eyck | The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck was a remarkable painter. He worked in oils during the Renaissance, and created stunning photorealistic portraits centuries before photography was developmed. In the Arnolfini portrait, …
00:08:17 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky
Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the Sky as a monumental print. It is probably among the most ambitious, labor-intensive, and useless books ever to be printed …
00:14:51 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
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 goal is to inspire, to make them feel. He talks about th…
00:12:32 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Louis Sullivan | Carson Pirie Scott Building
In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote about skyscrapers and architectural design in “The Tall Building Artistically Considered” This was the origin of the famous phrase, “form follows function.” What Sulliva…
00:08:29 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun | Self-Portrait
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 her portrait. Marie Antoinette loved the way Le Bru…
00:08:23 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling Water
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. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill an…
00:06:36 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Jacob Lawrence | The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series was not his only narrative series of paintings, but it was his biggest hit. This collection of 60 painted panels tells the story of The Great Migration as millions o…
00:12:47 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Christo and Jeanne Claude | The Gates
Christo and Jeanne Claude are best known for their monumental works using fabric to transform public spaces. These massive works outside of the museum or gallery context helped to bring art to the ma…
00:09:19 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
Ai Weiwei | Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Ai Weiwei is possibly the most interesting man in the world. He is not only a famous contemporary artist. He was a top rated blackjack player, a political prisoner and released a heavy metal album ab…
00:09:24 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
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