Best Antique Indian Art Podcasts (2024)

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Stephen C. Datz: Landscape Painter (Muse's Memory Opens April 26) - Epi. 292, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:18:03

2h ago1:18:03

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Really interesting podcast today with Stephen Datz. You know, most of the podcasts are more about the history of the person and trying to figure out that journey. And in this case, it was really more of an educational understanding of the process of how Steven does his work and how that translates to our show, which is we're having a show and there…

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Dominik Modlinski: Landscape Painter - Epi. 291, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:01:09

1d ago1:01:09

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I've been wanting to do a podcast with Dominik Modlinski for a very long time. I've represented him for over a decade. He is just such an interesting, unique human being. Not like any other artist I've met actually. I represent him at my gallery not just because a skilled creative soul, but he's also just this, wanderlust incarnate-type person who …

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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023) 36:07

1d ago36:07

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Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Cathy Yue Wang's Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (Wayne State Univer…

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Karen Schmidt: Granddaughter of Santa Fe Artist Albert Schmidt - Epi. 290, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 20:52

8d ago20:52

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One of the great things about this job is that sometimes these things come in that are just wonderful gifts. One of those gifts happened to come in today, and her name is Karen Schmidt. Karen's grandfather was Albert Schmidt, who was a very famous Santa Fe painter. She came in with a large collection of paintings that she found in Albert's house af…

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Jill Carver: Land of Song - Grand Canyon Variations (Opens April 5, 2024) - Epi. 289, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:07:23

22d ago1:07:23

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Usually my podcasts are about the lives, the history, the particular path of creativity one takes. With Jill Carver, it's always interesting because this is my third podcast with her and each time it's fresh and unique. In this podcast - we're talking about her show "Land of Song - Grand Canyon Variations" which she's been working on for the last y…

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Andy & Amy Krane: Publishers, Art of the West Magazine - Epi. 288, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 56:31

23d ago56:31

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I had Amy and Andy Krane on today, and they own the magazine Art of the West. It's a longstanding magazine that has been around more than 36 years. The Krane's bought it in 2019. Since then, I have seen them at almost every show that I've gone to, and I've been at a lot of shows the last couple of years. I was really glad to see them in Tucson and …

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Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023) 32:58

29d ago32:58

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Shakuntala Gawde's book Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha (Dev Publishers, 2023) presents an analytical study of selected narratives of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa with the framework of Narratology. It checks the possibilities of interpretation of some popular narratives from Kṛṣṇa saga. …

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Howard Post: Western Artist & Rodeo Champion - Epi. 287, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 39:41

30d ago39:41

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Recently I've been interviewing artists at various shows in front of various paintings for use on my podcast and for social media videos as well. I must admit, the information that flows from these creative minds while in front of their respective works is really amazing and different from what you'd hear from a normal podcast of mine. This episode…

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John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024) 52:28

1M ago52:28

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Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations? Journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch.…

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Douglas Leen: Historic Art Hunter & Author - Epi. 286, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:04:35

1M ago1:04:35

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I had "Ranger of the Lost Art" Doug Leen on today. Very interesting, man, not only for what he's done for the arts, but just as much for what he's done for American history. He starts out as a park ranger, and even before that, he's in Vietnam Ultimately he gets involved in Kent State after he gets back from the war and meets with Nixon and talked …

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William Matthews: Western Artist - Epi. 285, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 35:02

1M ago35:02

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I love my job because it allows me to interact with artists in a way that other people don’t get to. And in this case, it was with William Matthews at his show, which is called Decades, and it’s at the Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West. It’s running through the fall of 2024. It’s all there on the walls, no matter what part of his life…

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Ed Mell (1942 - 2024): Celebrated Western Artist - Epi. 284, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:49:53

2M ago1:49:53

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When I decided to do this podcast seven years ago, one of the main reasons for doing it was to capture the voices of artists, dealers, collectors, art curators, all of the components that make up my world as an art dealer and how they affect me. That's why the project is called the Art Dealer Diaries. One of the biggest personalities to impact my l…

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Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:05:20

2M ago1:05:20

1:05:20

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers and performers sought to convey the terror and the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they increasingly turned to the labor, movement, speech, sound, and ritual of everyday “folk.” Man…

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Tim Peterson: Curator & Collector, Western Spirit Museum - Epi. 283, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 45:08

2M ago45:08

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This podcast is different than most because it's really a visual podcast. So I highly recommend watching the YouTube version so you can see the imagery that we're talking about. Not that it isn't interesting to listen to, but the imagery will really add to the experience. I had the opportunity to go and spend the afternoon with Tim Peterson, who cu…

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Alvin Yellowhorse: Navajo Silversmith - Epi. 282, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 59:02

2M ago59:02

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The different voices I get to hear on the podcast keeps it fresh and interesting for me and make me want to continue doing it. This is my seventh year and doing the Art Dealer Diaries and I'm always amazed that there's still something that I haven't heard / some person that I haven't met that fills in the gaps. So today I had Alvin Yellowhorse and …

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Scott Burdick: Fine Artist (Part 2) - Epi. 281, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:17:54

2M ago1:17:54

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I ad Scott Burdick on today. What an interesting man. We had a very long talk and the reason it was so long was we went over a lot of subjects. It wasn't just a podcast about a painter talking about painting. I would say painting was something we discussed the least. We went deep into his belief system, how he sees the world, and how his creativity…

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Scott Burdick: Fine Artist (Part 1) - Epi. 280, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:24:03

3M ago1:24:03

1:24:03

I had Scott Burdick on today. What an interesting man. We had a very long talk and the reason it was so long was we went over a lot of subjects. It wasn't just a podcast about a painter talking about painting. I would say painting was something we discussed the least. We went deep into his belief system, how he sees the world, and how his creativit…

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Suzanne Oakdale, "Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects" (U Nebraska Press, 2022) 54:22

3M ago54:22

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In Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects (U Nebraska Press, 2022), Suzanne Oakdale focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the c…

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Dr. Larry Len Peterson: Art Historian & Author (Part 2) - Epi. 279, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 56:21

3M ago56:21

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I had Dr. Larry Len Peterson on today, and we're discussing his new book "Edward S. Curtis, Printing the Legends: Looking at Shadows in a West Lit Only by Fire" it's a terrific book. I read this whole book and I'm going to read it again. There's just so much information, not only about Edward Curtis, but about that whole time frame from 1860 to 194…

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Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022) 34:14

3M ago34:14

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In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke UP, 2022) (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of Southeast Texas. He encounters the region as a kind of world enveloped in on itself, existing under a pall of poverty, illness, and oil refinery smoke. His informants…

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Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:00:25

3M ago1:00:25

1:00:25

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tales – the Children’s and Household Tales – is one of the world’s most translated literary works. Living in a time of upheaval and war, the Grimm brothers were also passionate German nationalists. They insisted that Germans must reject alien regimes an…

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Dr. Larry Len Peterson: Art Historian & Author (Part 1) - Epi. 278, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 58:24

3M ago58:24

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I had Dr. Larry Len Peterson on today, and we're discussing his new book "Edward S. Curtis, Printing the Legends: Looking at Shadows in a West Lit Only by Fire" it's a terrific book. I read this whole book and I'm going to read it again. There's just so much information, not only about Edward Curtis, but about that whole time frame from 1860 to 194…

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Mike Brainard: Writer, Producer, & Actor - Epi. 277, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:23:02

4M ago1:23:02

1:23:02

Wow, I had a great time with this podcast, Mike Brainard. He is a writer, an actor, a podcast producer, and a woodworker, just to say a few of the things that he's accomplished in his life. He does a podcast called The Ernie Pyle Experiment!, which is a 13-episode podcast that actually came in second, I believe, for an Audie Award, which is like th…

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Shonto Begay (Diné): Artist & Educator - Epi. 276, Host Dr Mark Sublette 58:54

4M ago58:54

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Shonto Begay joined me today for a special podcast right before Christmas. I've had Shonto on before. In fact, he was my guest on the second podcast I had ever done. I've known Shonto for over 20 years and have been collecting his art as well as selling it. You know, he just is unique. He's unique in so many forms and fashions. It's almost hard to …

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William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914" (Oxford UP, 2019) 58:24

4M ago58:24

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The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe. Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 18…

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Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023) 44:24

4M ago44:24

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Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Harvard UP, 2023) is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki, changed in meaning and significance between 800 and 1800 CE. Generations of Japanese scholars and students have turned to these two texts and the…

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Moira Geoffrion: Pods, Plants, and Parts - Epi. 275, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 57:05

4M ago57:05

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Moira Geoffrion joins host Mark Sublette to talk about her show "Pods, Plants, and Parts." The show has 144 new paintings of the botanical structures that can be found throughout the Sonoran desert. Opening with the artist is Friday, December 29 from 12 - 2 PM at Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. View the Show Online: https://w…

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Osage Indian School & Killers of the Flower Moon - Epi 274, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 53:42

4M ago53:42

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Numerous important bills signed in Congress between 1869 to 1925 set the stage for the Osage Reign of Terror in 1920's Oklahoma. David Grann’s book “Killers of the Flower Moon” and the 2023 Martin Scorsese movie by the same name serve as the backdrop for this deep dive and historical overview. This is unlike any of my previous podcasts so I hope yo…

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Danuta Tomzynski: Artist and Designer - Epi. 273, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:02:44

5M ago1:02:44

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I had artist Danuta Tomzynski on today. She's such an interesting human being. You know, just starting we went right to the heart of it by talking about her parents. They were both Polish and were in Poland during World War II. Her father fought in the war after being taken to Siberia by the Russians and her mom was taken from Poland to Germany to …

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Richard & Helen Shull: Miners, Authors, Artists, Owners of Esmeralda Turquoise Company - Epi. 272, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:22:24

5M ago1:22:24

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This had to be one of the more interesting podcasts I've done. It's with Helen and Richard Shull, and they own Esmeralda Turquoise Company in Nevada. They had come into my gallery and we were talking about what they do. It turns out they're miners/gemologists and they own turquoise mines that are scattered through northern Nevada. After a brief con…

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Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022) 33:56

5M ago33:56

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Greg Bailey discusses his new translation of the Gaṇeśa Khaṇḍa of the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa, one of the few texts dedicated solely to the popular elephant-headed Indian god Gaṇeśa. About the book: The first two khaas of the Brahmavaivarta Puraa (BvP) deal with Brahma and Prakti respectively. Both introducing the theology that enables Ka to be treat…

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Paula A. Baxter: Design Historian, Professor, Curator & Author - Epi. 271, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:05:39

5M ago1:05:39

1:05:39

Paula Baxter was on the show today and she's very interesting, as most of our guests are. All of our guests have a similar thread of the arts running through their lives in some form or fashion. In her case, it was 1986 when she was in Santa Fe and bought a piece at Ortega's on the Plaza. It was like an epiphany for Paula. She needed to be more awa…

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John Morris (1939 - 2023): Woodstock Organizer - Epi. 270, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:01:34

5M ago1:01:34

1:01:34

I wanted to re-air John Morris's podcast. I had him on episode 11 back in 2018. John recently passed and was such an interesting human being and I'm so happy that he took the time during Indian Market in 2018 to come talk to me about his life. You know, John was a guy who was intimately involved in the 1969 Woodstock show. He booked all the people …

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William Haskell: Winds of Western Change, Opens January 12, 2024 - Epi. 269, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:09:45

6M ago1:09:45

1:09:45

I had a wonderful podcast today with William Haskell. We had done a podcast together two years ago in the middle of the pandemic, but it was really nice to actually spend time with him in person. Instead of focusing on how got to where he is today (since that story was told in epi. 129), I wanted to find out about his new show that he's doing for u…

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William Alther: Fine Artist and Biologist - Epi. 268, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:28:21

6M ago1:28:21

1:28:21

I had Bill Alther on today and wow, he's such a unique individual and has a great story. He's an individual who always knew he was going to be an artist. He just didn't know what kind of artist. He started painting in high school and after college, he began carving wooden sculptures of birds. He was successful and made a living doing it, but it jus…

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Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023) 38:03

6M ago38:03

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When King Arthur was conveyed to Avalon they were there. When Odin summoned warriors to Valhalla they were there. When Apollo was worshipped on Greek mountains they were there. When Brendan came to the Island of Women they were there. They are the Nine Maidens – from the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her sisters on Avalon, to the ni…

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Barry Friedman: Trade Blanket Expert, Killers of the Flower Moon - Epi. 267, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:14:54

6M ago1:14:54

1:14:54

I always have a good time with Barry Friedman and he was my guest on the podcast today. Barry's specialty is trade blankets. These range from the traditional Pendleton to a variety of different types of blankets that were made commercially from 1892 up to today. The Pendleton company is still making wonderful blankets as we speak. I've done a podca…

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Billie Ponca: Osage Elder talks Killers of the Flower Moon - Epi. 266, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 34:54

6M ago34:54

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I took the Art Dealer Diaries on a little road trip this week to northeastern Oklahoma, in the heart of Osage Country, to get an inside look at this blockbuster movie by Martin Scorsese called Killers of the Flower Moon. The book was by David Grann and the story is a tragic one for the Osage people. The Osage call it the reign of terror. It took pl…

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Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023) 45:57

6M ago45:57

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In The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales (Reaktion, 2023), Dr. Anne Duggan presents a recovery of the lost, plucky heroines of historic fairy tales. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films, and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration – notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm …

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Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023) 48:48

6M ago48:48

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Across today’s America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They…

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2023 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Interview Compilation - Epi. 265, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 29:41

7M ago29:41

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There's nothing better than the third week in August at Indian Market in Santa Fe. I took this entire weekend to film interviews with artisans and people running the event to give you a sense of what it's like. We went to the SWAIA presentation of Best of Show, which we were fortunate enough to be able to sponsor for the next four years. So you kin…

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Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023) 39:00

6M ago39:00

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Julian Goodare and Martha McGill's edited volume The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester UP, 2023) is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in …

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Jordan K. Walker: Deep Time (Opens October 7, 2023) - Epi. 264, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:08:44

7M ago1:08:44

1:08:44

I had Jordan K. Walker on my podcast today. I've had Jordan on before and last time (Epi. 239) we talked about his life and all the things that made him who he is today. This time around, we're having his first one-man show, Deep Time, opening on October 7, 2023. I thought it would be helpful for individuals out there who are artists to hear what t…

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Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 31:24

7M ago31:24

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Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief accepted only by simple-minded people, Michelle Karnes shows that these spectacular wonders were near impossibilities that dem…

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Victoria Adams: Jewelry Artist & Designer (Part Two) - Epi. 263, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 59:57

7M ago59:57

59:57

I had Victoria Adams on today and wow, what a delightful person she is. She's such an upbeat, happy person. I've been very familiar with her work for probably two decades, and she always exhibits at prominent Indian Market events. Victoria is known for her beautifully designed jewelry and she makes custom handbags that are to die for. This year at …

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Victoria Adams: Jewelry Artist & Designer (Part One) - Epi. 262, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:01:04

7M ago1:01:04

1:01:04

I had Victoria Adams on today and wow, what a delightful person she is. She's such an upbeat, happy person. I've been very familiar with her work for probably two decades, and she always exhibits at prominent Indian Market events. Victoria is known for her beautifully designed jewelry and she makes custom handbags that are to die for. This year at …

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Teal Blake: Western Painter & Cowboy Artist of America - Epi. 261, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:09:10

8M ago1:09:10

1:09:10

So many of the podcasts that I do deal with Western art, but rarely do I have an artist that epitomizes what it means to be a "Western artist" the way that Teal Blake does. Teal was raised in Montana and he's been in the West his whole life and currently lives in Texas. Not only does he have the credentials of being a Western individual, but he was…

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A Better Way to Buy Books 34:29

7M ago34:29

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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

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John Bell: Artist & Designer - Epi. 260, Host Dr. Mark Sublette 1:36:20

8M ago1:36:20

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I do this podcast because the people I meet in my line of work are really interesting. That's a lot of it. John Bell is exactly the kind of podcast I love doing because he's not somebody you can just throw into a typical mold and say, oh he's an artist or he's an art dealer. You know? John is an Academy Award-nominated individual who's worked on mo…

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Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023) 48:26

8M ago48:26

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Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstrous temptresses who use their charms to entice men to their doom. But if we go back 4,000 years, the roots of these demons lie in horrific creatures like Lamashtu, a lion-headed Mesopotamian demon who s…

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