Ranked #1
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
•
17mins
Ranked #2
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
•
16mins
Similar Podcasts
Ranked #3
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
19 Aug 2019
•
17mins
Ranked #4
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
10 Jul 2019
•
15mins
Ranked #5
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
10 Jun 2019
•
13mins
Ranked #6
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
13 May 2019
•
11mins
Ranked #7
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
•
16mins
Ranked #8
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
9 Apr 2019
•
10mins
Ranked #9
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
8 Jan 2019
•
11mins
Ranked #10
Fellowship of the Things
Fellowship of the Things
There were wolves and caribou on the Minnesota frontier when John Scott Bradstreet arrived with his white suits and Far ... Read more
8 Jan 2019
•
9mins