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
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu would translate to “old mountain” but it isn’t that old. While stone ruins are often associated with ancient civilizations thousands of years old, Machu Picchu is relatively young having…
00:09:46 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
Jack Kirby (encore)
Jack Kirby created some of the biggest names in the golden age of comics including: Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk. He basically populated the Marvel Universe…
00:08:56 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Akira Yoshizawa and Origami
Origami is the Japanese art of folded paper sculpture. It is a tradition that is basically as old as paper. In the 6th century CE, Buddhist monks brought paper from China to Japan. While origami has …
00:11:34 |
Mon 26 Jun 2023
Romare Bearden (encore)
Romare Bearden grew up during the Harlem Renaissance. He enlisted in the army during World War 2 and in addition to painting, he made collages, he wrote and he loved music. One of my favorite works o…
00:09:39 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Hilma Af Klint | What a Human Being Is (encore)
Hilma Af Klint was making abstract paintings before Kandinsky and Mondrian. She was exploring automatic writing and drawing guided by the subconscious decades before the surrealists. The term avant-g…
00:37:58 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Life Imitates Art - The Stockholm Art Heist
It was early evening just a few minutes from closing time at the National Museum when suddenly the normally peaceful museum took on the aesthetic of an action movie. An armed intruder walked in yelli…
00:09:08 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Yayoi Kusama - Narcissus Garden
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular contemporary artists with her infinity rooms drawing massive crowds wherever they are installed. In the infinity rooms, the walls are covered in mirrors creati…
00:14:49 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
The Ultimate Lego House
For this week's fun fact friday, you can learn about everyone's first and favorite modular building material Lego, and how in 2009 on man (with the help of corporate sponsors and a few thousand volun…
00:05:24 |
Fri 09 Jun 2023
Gustave Caillebotte | Paris Street Rainy Day
The Impressionists are probably best known for their loose brush work, that painterly style that allows reminds us paint is not only a noun, but a verb. The Impressionists had great ideas and tremend…
00:16:35 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
Forgers Forging Forgeries (encore)
The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in southern China had over 140 works stolen from their collection, but nobody noticed for years. This is because the thief replaced every item he stole… with his ow…
00:05:40 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Satoshi Tajiri | Pokemon (encore)
This is an encore presentation of my episode about Satoshi Tajiri and Pokemon is one of the biggest games in modern history. For over 25 years, hundreds of millions of people around the world have en…
00:11:50 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Fallen Astronaut, 1971
Fun fact: almost as soon as people started walking on the moon, they started to put art on the moon.
In 1969, Nasa landed the first astronauts on the moon. It was a relatively short stay given the di…
00:07:38 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Disney's Folly
Walt Disney started making silly fun cartoon shorts, but he had a vision to elevate animation to the status of a feature film capturing the full scope of human emotions. Nobody believed he could do i…
00:09:34 |
Mon 22 May 2023
Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory (encore)
This is an encore presentation of my episode sharing some fun facts about Salvador Dali and a little bit about his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory. I am taking a break as I finish up …
00:08:13 |
Fri 19 May 2023
Alexander McQueen | Jellyfish Ensemble (encore)
This is an encore presentation of my first foray into the fashion world as Goldie Robinson helped me understand the brilliance of Alexander McQueen's 2010 collection. Specifically we looked at his Je…
00:34:00 |
Mon 15 May 2023
Matt Groening | Homer Simpson (encore)
This is an encore presentation of my episode about Matt Groening and Homer Simpson. With Mother's Day coming up, I thought it would be a great time to rebroadcast the episode I recorded with my mothe…
00:36:39 |
Fri 12 May 2023
Johannes Vermeer | The Concert (encore)
There are only 36 Vermeer paintings in the world today and one was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1991. The case remains unsolved to this day. In this episode, Emily Fiedler and I…
00:40:08 |
Mon 08 May 2023
Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper (encore)
As I know many high school students around the US are prepping for the AP Art History test, I thought it would be nice to put out an episode on one of the required works from the AP Art History curri…
00:10:08 |
Fri 05 May 2023
Luisa Ignacia Roldán | Saint Ginés de la Jara
My guest this week was Paula Liz, founder of Anti-Racist Art Teachers. I invited Paula to come to talk to me about one of her favorite artists, and she picked Luisa Ignacia Roldán the Spanish Baroque…
00:24:40 |
Mon 01 May 2023
The Taj Mahal (encore)
The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful man-made structures in the world. It is a UNESCO world heritage site considered to be one of the modern wonders of the world. The story behind its construct…
00:06:23 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
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