Join Zak and Lianne as they explore the life of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe ft. a pet monkey named Scratch, his first love Patti Smith, and a meteoric rise to fame for his black and white photographs (despite not knowing how to process film!). We’ll also cover how activist groups are waging war in museums to fight for climate change.

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Sources:

• https://www.max.com/movies/mapplethorpe-look-at-the-pictures/cff1b8d5-e6e4-4bdd-a764-3925d5f6a888?utm_source=universal_search

• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/monet-vandalized-by-climate-activist-musee-dorsay-1234708643/

• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-museum-paris-protest-eugene-delacroix-painting-1234705732/

• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/climate-protestors-soup-monet-painting-museum-le-printemps-lyon-1234695821/

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Hosts Zak and Lianne explore the mysterious life and masterful works of Johannes Vermeer, featuring his debt-ridden family, use of optical devices, and limited yet powerful body of work. Add to that his role in one of art history's most famous, and still UNSOLVED, art heists. Then, we’ll chat about a Russian artist intent on dissolving works by Picasso in acid!

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Sources:

• https://artshortlist.com/en/journal/article/10-things-to-know-about-johannes-vermeer

• https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/most-famous-paintings/index.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20121105004640/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-73409194.html

• https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Vermeer-and-His-Milieu-Montias/7addad6bd91899b668c01238668e25dfaae39734

• http://www.essentialvermeer.com/vermeer's_life.html#parents

• http://www.essentialvermeer.com/fakes_thefts_school_of_delft_lost_sp/vermeer_theft_05.html#:~:text=At%201%3A24%20a.m.%20on,the%20other%20guard%20was%20elsewhere.

• Steadman, Philip (2017). Vermeer and the Problem of Painting Inside the Camera Obscura. Berlin/Munich/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 76–86. ISBN 978-3-11-054721-4.

• https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170425-why-vermeers-paintings-are-less-real-than-we-think

• https://www.sonyclassics.com/timsvermeer/

• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-artist-holding-valuable-art-hostage-to-protect-julian-assange

• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/julian-assange-prison-rembrandt-picasso-artworks-russian-artist-1234696352/

• https://www.artsy.net/artist/andrei-molodkin

  
  

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Hosts Zak and Lianne explore the fascinating life of Yayoi Kusama featuring a chance discovery in a secondhand bookshop, couches covered in phalluses, and a “happening” with four nude dancers gyrating on Wall St. whilst the artist painted them with polka dots. Then, we’ll answer the question on everyone’s mind - what is happening with the Ghanaian crown jewels?!

Follow up on Instagram! @notarthistorians

Sources:

• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/yayoi-kusama-8094/introduction-yayoi-kusama
• https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180925-yayoi-kusamas-extraordinary-survival-story
• https://www.christies.com/en/stories/yayoi-kusama-collecting-guide-c540ed4a4c70465fb06c6467e830c8df#:~:text=She%20now%20lives%20voluntarily%20in,been%20her%20home%20since%201977.
• https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2017.9a21
• https://americanart.si.edu/blog/kusama-cornell-art
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kusama-and-cornell-an-unl_b_1580210
• https://whitneymuseum.tumblr.com/post/31820518666/fly-back-to-me-spring-flower-and-i-shall-tie-a
• https://www.portlandgarmentfactory.com/news/2016/8/15/soft-sculpture-survey-yayoi-kusama
• https://actipedia.org/project/anatomic-explosion
• https://subversivesweetheartfatp.wordpress.com/feminist-artist/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68925059
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45406557?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
• https://afktravel.com/98696/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-ashanti-kingdom/

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