Filmmaker Alan Govenar joins us to talk about the history of tattooing, from Biblical times to today.
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Art Makes Money, While Artists Don’t
Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about how we value art.
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Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim And The History Of Women In Rap
Music journalist Kathy Iandoli joins us to talk about the contributions of Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa and other woman artists – and why the contributions of women in rap are so often overlooked.
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‘Undone’: The Story Behind Amazon’s Coolest Series
Kate Purdy, co-creator, producer and writer of “Undone,” joins us to talk about her drama, which uses Rotoscope animation to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead.
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Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers
Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.
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Death, Ingénues, And True Crime: A Halloween Special
Obsession, murder, dying, and a touch of humor: just some of the dark subjects we’ll touch on in this Halloween special.
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Do Museums Sell Respectability?
Rhonda Lieberman joins us to discuss her views that art philanthropy can invite unsavory business ties, which museums must court in order to fund their institutions.
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Why Kids Draw – And Why They Stop
Arts educator Marilyn JS Goodman joins us to talk about how drawing evolves as kids develop mentally and physically, which she writes about in “Children Draw: A Guide to Why, When and How Children Make Art.”
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What Journalism Does For The Arts
Host Krys Boyd talks with a panel of critics, artists and journalism teachers about the relationship between an arts community and the media and how it’s changed in an era of consolidation and social media.
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Your Brain On Art
Ellen Winner, director of the Arts and Mind Lab at Boston College, joins us to talk about how art affects how we think and feel.
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How Portraits Capture People
Director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Kim Sajet joins us to talk about how artists capture the essence of their subjects through these paintings.
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When Did Art Begin?
Artist Tony Berlant and anthropologist Thomas Wynn join us to talk about how early humans created objects that were both useful and beautiful.
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