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The Object

Hosted by Tim Gihring, "The Object" podcast explores the surprising, true stories behind museum objects, touching on immigration, race, and other issues. An object's view of us. (Produced by the Minne... Read more

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Spirited Away: The Incredible Ghosts of Yoshitoshi

Spirited Away: The Incredible Ghosts of Yoshitoshi

Yoshitoshi is poised to be the greatest artist of the Floating World, the semi-fictional universe of sex and style in ol... Read more

13 Apr 2020

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Ranked #2

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Young, Gifted, and Gone: The Woman Who Never Came Back

Young, Gifted, and Gone: The Woman Who Never Came Back

Elizabeth Catlett, the granddaughter of enslaved African-Americans, is a struggling artist at the height of Jim Crow. Bu... Read more

16 Mar 2020

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Gone Girl: The Case of the Missing Rembrandt

Gone Girl: The Case of the Missing Rembrandt

In 1666, Rembrandt painted a masterpiece that disappeared almost as soon as he finished it. Where it went, and what it m... Read more

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True Colors: The Truth About "White" Classical Art

True Colors: The Truth About "White" Classical Art

He was the ideal man. Handsome, strapping, with unreal proportions. But ancient statues like the Doryphoros originally l... Read more

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Flying Too Close to the Sun

Flying Too Close to the Sun

Kehinde Wiley, long before he painted President Obama's official portrait, went to Brazil. There, he was inspired by a m... Read more

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Fast and Furious: The Car That Killed Nazis

Fast and Furious: The Car That Killed Nazis

When World War II began, nothing seemed capable of slowing the Nazis. Except a very fast, very unusual Czech automobile ... Read more

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Lord of the Dance: An Indian Icon Goes Global

Lord of the Dance: An Indian Icon Goes Global

In the 1920s, the sculptural image of Shiva Nataraja--the Hindu god Shiva as the cosmic dancer, ensuring the cycle of li... Read more

5 Mar 2019

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How to Stop an Assassin

How to Stop an Assassin

Long ago, when everyone but your dog was a potential assassin, you needed to protect yourself by any means necessary. St... Read more

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X-ray Man and the Great Mummy Mystery

X-ray Man and the Great Mummy Mystery

An assistant curator decides to x-ray a 3,000-year-old mummy case, to learn if anything’s in there, and sees more than h... Read more

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Fellowship of the Things

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There were wolves and caribou on the Minnesota frontier when John Scott Bradstreet arrived with his white suits and Far ... Read more

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