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
Artist Interview | Reggie Laurent
Reggie Laurent is a contemporary artist based out of Atlanta. Laurent is a largely self-taught artist working in a variety of media and often on unexpected surfaces. He is known for his DNA series of…
01:08:19 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Hieronymus Bosch | The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch was a 15th-century Dutch painter whose fantastical and often unsettling works continue to captivate viewers today. His most famous painting, "The Garden of Earthly Delights," is a tr…
00:15:56 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Mary Cassatt at Work
My guest this week is Emily Beeny, the Curator in charge of European paintings for The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She spoke with me about Mary Cassatt at work, an exhibition coming to The Le…
00:40:45 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
The Treasures of King Tutankhamun's Tomb (encore)
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, but as Carter held up his candle, his partner, Lor…
00:10:41 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Author Interview: Carrie Rickey on A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda
This week I spoke with Carrie Rickey, the author of a new biography of Agnes Varda. Varda is considered to be one of the greatest female directors in film history. She is one of the greatest French d…
00:46:39 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Alfred Stieglitz | The Steerage (encore)
Alfred Stieglitz is considered by many to be the father of modern photography. He looked at the camera as not simply a tool to document the world, but an artistic medium. His photograph The Steerage …
00:10:55 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
Edward Hopper | Nighthawks
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. In a painting like Nighthawks we see people gat…
00:44:14 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Mark Rothko | The Seagram Murals
Mark Rothko is one of the most famous painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement. While many look at his paintings as simple rectangles of various colors, he sought to express much deeper ideas …
00:17:52 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Dr. Rosemary Lee | Art & AI
Is an AI generated image really art? How might AI tools affect the way artists create their work? Will AI replace human artists?
Rosemary Lee is an artist and media researcher. Her work considers ho…
00:39:03 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation (encore)
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…
00:11:17 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Sean Roschman | Niko8
Sean Roschman is the creative director for Niko8, a dance company in Chicago. He has worked designing, choreographing and directing unique large scale spectacle performances for commercial clients su…
00:40:31 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Edgar Degas
Degas is famous for his beautiful depictions of ballet dancers, but he was also giving a glimpse into the tough reality those dancers experienced.
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas in 18…
00:17:27 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
Gustave Caillebotte | Paris Street; Rainy Day (encore)
Many know the image of Paris Street; Rainy Day, but somehow far fewer know the artist who painted it, Gustave Caillebotte. He was born in Paris in the mid 19th century just as massive changes were ha…
00:48:45 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
Georgia O'Keeffe (encore)
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century. She was among the most influential painters in developing modern abstraction and she influenced numerous artists who wo…
00:05:19 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Yves Klein | Leap Into the Void (encore)
This week we are looking at Yves Klein and his famous photograph, Leap Into the Void, from 1960. Klein had a short but highly influential career as he pushed the boundaries of what could be considere…
00:34:45 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Angkor Wat
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 dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu and was likely in…
00:15:02 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Artist Interview | Ephraim Urevbu
I interviewed Ephraim Urevbu a contemporary artist based in Memphis Tennessee. He shared his life experiences growing up in Nigeria then coming to the United States to study art and the ways the US d…
00:47:08 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Fallen Astronaut, 1971 (encore)
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…
00:07:53 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Chris Boylan | The Laiagam Stone
For this episode, I interviewed Chris Boylan, an expert on Oceanic Art. He explained a little bit of history about The Laiagam Stone, an incredible carved piece created thousands of years ago by the …
00:37:04 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
The Longmen Caves (encore)
China's Longmen Caves or Longmen Grottos are a UNESCO world heritage site. Starting in the 5th century CE, artists chiseled away at the limestone carving out around 2300 caves and 110,000 statues. Be…
00:10:36 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
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