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?!

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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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Join Zak and Lianne as they dive into the turbulent intertwined lives of Surrealists Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage. We’ll explore Tanguy’s humble beginnings as a merchant sailor with no formal artistic training, Sage’s brief stint as an actual princess, how a single painting brought them together, and one bird ushered their tragic demise. We’ll also cover their masterpieces, including “I Am Waiting For You” and “Tomorrow is Never”.

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Sources

• Schalhorn, Andreas (2001). "Yves Tanguy 1900–55". In Karin von Maur (ed.). Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 3-7757-0968-1.

• https://www.ft.com/content/951c6d32-f979-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6

• Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997,

• Chadwick, Whitney. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.

• https://www.thecollector.com/kay-sage-paintings-artists-and-death/

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painting-created-and-signed-by-all-four-beatles-goes-to-auction-180983533/

• https://www.cnn.com/style/beatles-japan-painting-1966-auction-cec/index.html

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Join Zak and Lianne as they dive into the charmed yet tragic life of heiress turned influential art collector. We’ll follow the New York debutante as she traipses through WWII Europe, evading Nazis as she brushes shoulders with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Perennially unlucky in love (you’ll have to listen to find out how many husbands), Guggenheim still cements her own name as a renowned gallerist.

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Sources

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xgks5jJ4jQ
• https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2015/august/26/how-peggy-guggenheim-made-jackson-pollock/
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/peggy-guggenheims-grave
• https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggy-guggenheim/about-peggy/
• https://newrepublic.com/article/122968/artistic-outrageous-life-peggy-guggenheim
• https://www.guggenheim.org/history/peggy-guggenheim
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peggy-Guggenheim
• https://www.icaboston.org/articles/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-peggy-guggenheim/
• https://www.usnews.com/photos/2024/02/15/a-new-golden-rooster-perches-atop-of-notre-dame-cathedral
• https://www.cnn.com/style/notre-dame-cathedral-restoration/index.html
• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/notre-dame-cathedrals-reconstructed-spire-gains-golden-rooster-weathervane-1234699315/

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Join Lianne and Zak as they unravel the vibrant and tumultuous life of Frida Kahlo, one of the most iconic artists to emerge from Mexico City. Delving into her remarkable journey, we'll explore Kahlo's profound artworks, from her riveting self-portraits to the themes of identity, pain, and resilience that define her legacy. Beyond the canvas, we delve into Frida's complex relationships, including her passionate but troubled marriage to Diego Rivera and her affairs with notable figures like Josephine Baker and Leon Trotsky. Amidst her personal struggles and health battles, Frida's spirit and creativity flourished, leaving an indelible mark on the art world.

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Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frida-Kahlo

• https://www.biography.com/artists/frida-kahlo-real-rumored-affairs-men-women

• https://www.contexttravel.com/blog/articles/frida-kahlo-diego-rivera-life-story

• https://www.grunge.com/195124/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-frida-kahlo/

• https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/paul-cezanne-mural-discovery-aix-en-provance-1234696945/

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Hosts Zak and Lianne invite listeners to explore the fascinating life of Salvador Dalí, an influential artist in Surrealism. We’ll cover his magnum opus “The Persistence of Memory” and launch into when he fell in love with a married woman, borrowed monkeys from the San Francisco Zoo for a dinner party, and collaborated with a squid to paint Beethoven.

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Sources:

• https://legacyweb.philamuseum.org/doc_downloads/education/ex_resources/dali.pdf

  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-surreal-world-of-salvador-dali-78993324/

  https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/08/30/Fire-burns-painter-Salvador-Dali/6837462686400/

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/arts/design/gala-salvador-dali-exhibition.htm

  https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/dali-gala-great-love-story/l

  https://www.biography.com/news/the-surreal-romance-of-salvador-and-gala-dal%C3%AD

  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/542652/facts-about-salvador-dali

  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-salvador-dali-loved-duplicity-and-illusion/

  https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018

  https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/21/538534970/salvador-dal-s-remains-exhumed-revealing-a-perfectly-arranged-mustache

  https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/27/new-yorks-natural-history-museum-to-close-halls-featuring-native-american-artifacts

  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/13/2023-27040/native-american-graves-protection-and-repatriation-act-systematic-processes-for-disposition-or

  https://www.artnews.com/art-news/issue/interview-with-art-crime-professor-erin-thompson-1234690499/

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Join Zak and Lianne as they dive into the tumultuous life of Baroque painter Caravaggio, once the most famous painter in Rome. We’ll explore a duel between jealous lovers (maybe?), his imprisonment, and a smear campaign that Caravaggio launched against one of his enemies. We’ll also cover his masterpieces like “Medusa” and “David with the Head of Goliath”.

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Sources

• Maurizio Calvesi, Caravaggio, Art Dossier 1986, Giunti Editori (1986) (ISBN not available)
• Maurizio Calvesi (1990). Le realtà del Caravaggio (in Italian). Torino: G. Einaudi. ISBN 9788806117108.

• ⁠https://www.speculumartis.net/en/2020/09/22/caravaggio-in-genoa-hypothesis-for-an-inspiration/⁠
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12497978
• https://www.artandobject.com/news/plan-restore-ancient-pyramid-granite-provokes-criticism

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