Pictorial is laid to rest with something we've never done before: follow-up. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership 15: Looting & The British Museum - YouTube A Timeline of All the Looted & Stolen Art Repatriated in 2023 - Town and Country The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia - BBC Marking R…

In their penultimate episode, Quinn and Betty discuss some enduring symbols in Palestinian art and examine a few prominent contemporary pieces. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership A Lesson on the Powerful Symbolism Found in Palestinian Art - Savoir Flair From the river to the sea (من النهر الى البحر), oil on canvas, 2…

The discussion of Aboriginal art continues with contemporary artists! Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Australia rejects Indigenous referendum in setback for reconciliation - Reuters Albert Namatjira - Art Gallery of NSW Clifford Possums Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Emu Woman Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Untitled (Body Paint…

Betty walks Quinn through highlights from the history of Aboriginal Australian art, including the longest continual art practice in the world. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Finest Aboriginal Art Online by Leading Indigenous Artists Megafauna Ships Milky Way and the Seven Sisters Cross Hatching The Wandjina spiri…

What does it mean to not finish a work of art? What does it mean to have the choice to finish it taken away from you? Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Unfinished Art: The Enduring Fascination Of Incompleteness - Artland Magazine Honoré Daumier | Man on a Rope 1 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Honoré Daumier | Man …

Let's explore the connection between science and art! Artists who became scientists, scientists who became artists, and art that investigates that line. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Sci-Art: From Leonardo da Vinci to Anish Kapoor - The Overview Maria Sibylla Merian: pioneering artist of flora and fauna - Britis…

Years after a controversial job posting sought to preserve the Indianapolis Museum of Art's "core, white" audience, the museum has finally hired a new director. Quinn and Betty discuss saying the quiet part loud and making change in museums. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children…

Part 2 of our Venice Biennale Architecture series! We look at this year's entries, featuring stunning art, works pushing the boundaries of what architecture is, and a Facebook rant. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Pictorial #77: Biennale Architecttura H…

Pictorial returns from summer break with an overview of the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and some favorite exhibits from over the years. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership History of Biennale Architettura 1980 example 1980 example The Building - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Katsushiro - Fractures Katsu…

Quinn and Betty examine deaccessioning (specifically in the context of museums selling art) and then get distracted by how hard getting rid of anything is. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Whitney to Deaccession Hopper With $8-12 M. Estimate – ARTnews.com What Are the Most Controversial Museum Deaccessioning Plans?…

For Pictorial's diamond jubilee, we talk about the wide-ranging portfolio of architect and designer Liz Diller. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Traffic - Diller Scofidio + Renfro Vice/Virtue - Diller Scofidio + Renfro Blur Building - Diller Scofidio + Renfro Liz Diller: The Blur Building and other tech-empowered a…

The fascinating biography and beautiful textiles of mid-century icon Ruth Adler Schnee. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Ruth Adler Schnee, Exuberant Designer of Modernist Textiles, Dies at 99 - The New York Times Ruth Adler Schnee - Wikipedia Cranbrook Mourns the Passing of Ruth Adler Schnee - Cranbrook Academy of…

Betty explains how to prove a painting was created by Rubens (and how to prove a painting was not created by Peter Doig). Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Pictorial #70: 2022 in Review - Relay FM Massacre of the Innocents Samson and Delilah Guidelines for experts authenticating works of fine art - Responsible Art M…

Let's talk about zines! What are they? Where did they come from? Where did they go? How hard is it to make your own? (this is foreshadowing) Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Zines - Wikipedia Queer Zine Archive Project POC Zine Project Betty's Zine Quinn's ZineBy Betty Chen and Quinn Rose

Museums typically preserve and restore art using the best technology available to them, but what about when decay is part of the piece? Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Pictorial #56: Museum Mishaps - Relay FM Pictorial #70: 2022 in Review - Relay FM Gustav Metzger 1926–2017 - Tate Wonders Of The Dead Sea, Revived …

Local contemporary art enthusiasts learn about extremely contemporary art. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership The Defining Artworks of 2022 – ARTnews.com Pictorial #67: This Painting is Upside Down - Relay FM Pictorial #61: The Milk of Dreams - Relay FM Annie Pootoogook | The Canadian Encyclopedia…

We are distressed. (Part 2 of 2) Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Pictorial #68: AI Art, Revisited - Relay FM AI tells me if AI will write novels. - YouTubeBy Betty Chen and Quinn Rose

We are concerned. (Part 1 of 2) Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Pictorial #1: Can Artificial Intelligence Make Art? - Relay FM Midjourney - Wikipedia An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed Creative Turn: How will AI change architecture?…

An art historian recently discovered that a Mondrian painting has been hung upside down for decades. How does something like that happen, and what made them realize the mistake? Plus: Quinn tries to guess which way abstract paintings are supposed to be oriented. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Mondrian painting ha…

After Lynn Goldsmith took photos of Prince in 1981, she gave Andy Warhol permission to make a silkscreen illustration. However, she had no idea that he made a series of illustrations, some of which have been licensed for thousands of dollars. Now she has a case in front of the Supreme Court that may shape the future of copyright. Links and Show Not…

Presidential portraits! Why are so many so boring and a few actually quite interesting? How does Pikachu fit in to this? Let's find out. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Official Portraits of the U.S. Presidents - The White House America's Presidents - National Portrait Gallery FDR JFK Lyndon B. Johnson George W. B…

Well, there was a fun TikTok trend about everyone's favorite art pieces, but then the sound got taken down and all the videos are unavailable now, so you're going to have to take our word for it. I mean it's fine, we describe the videos and we link to all the art, but still. Rude. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership R…

Betty and Quinn return after a brief hiatus to discuss the life and work of JMW Turner... the father of Modernism? Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ‘The Pantheon, the Morning after the Fire’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1792 | Tate ‘The Interior of a …

Quinn walks Betty through the life, work, and hot takes of the iconic painter Keith Haring. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Keith Haring - Artnet Keith Haring's Journals Understanding Pop Art - ARTiculations Pictorial #18: Jean-Michel Basquiat & Defacement - Relay FM LA II (Angel Ortiz) - Artnet Pictorial #60: The…

Betty walks Quinn through select pavilions and artworks at the 2022 Venice Biennale. This art show has everything: sculptures, paintings, deeply moving artist statements, a paper maze, dreams made out of milk(?) Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams The 10 Best National Pavilions a…

A brief overview of Venice's biannual international art exhibition, but primarily the most scandalous controversies in its 127 year history. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Venice Biennale - Wikipedia The Top 10 Venice Biennale Controversies - ARTnews.com Supreme Meeting Up Close With Klimt's 'Judith II' — Google …

Augusta Savage was a sculptor, teacher, and part of the Harlem Renaissance. While she was relatively unknown when she passed away, today she's been rediscovered and recognized for her work and for her mentorship to the next generation of artists. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Augusta Savage - Wikipedia Gamin - S…

What is the earliest art made by humans? Depends on what you mean by "earliest," "art," and "humans." Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Chauvet Cave - Wikipedia A journey deep inside Spain’s temple of cave art - BBC Travel Archaeologists Have Discovered a Pristine 45,000-Year-Old Cave Painting of a Pig That May Be t…

We discuss the Netflix mini-series This Is A Robbery, a documentary about the theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Featured topics include mobsters, Rembrandt's only seascape, and how easy it was to commit crimes in 1990. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art H…

After the recent vandalism Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures, we decided to take a look at some other remarkable (and hilarious) museum incidents. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Russian painting vandalised by ‘bored’ gallery guard who drew eyes on it - The Guardian Museum visitor who broke historic vases laments hi…

Thousands of years ago, the first emperor of China dictated the construction of thousands of life-sized terracotta soldiers in a hidden mausoleum. Fifty years ago, we found them. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Terracotta Army: A Complete Guide with Pictures & Infographics Terracotta Warriors - Khan Academy Terrac…

Saturn Devouring His Son is a dark, disturbing painting made by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, depicting horrific violence, never intended for the public eye. And it's a really funny meme. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Saturn Devouring His Son - Wikipedia Artist Creates Image of Planters' Mascot Mr. Peanut E…

Betty uses her nearly 10 years of gallery guide experience to teach Quinn strategies for how to engage with art without any contextual information; Quinn interprets some paintings through her experience of of horror movies, Americana, and delicious picnic food. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Art Gallery of Ontari…

This episode we're talking about the contemporary artist Sarah Hatton. Her work focuses on reclaiming materials, the natural world, and investigating questions about human nature. Also, she's Canadian, so Betty's having a great week. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Sarah Hatton – Contemporary Canadian artist BEE W…

For our first episode of 2022, Betty is walking Quinn through a brief history of concert posters: the good, the bad, and the psychedelic. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership El Dorado Poster Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Moulin Rouge: La Goulue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Elvis Presley - Hatch Show Print Boxing Pos…

In blatant exploitation of the responsibility of hosting our 50th episode, Quinn walks Betty through musicals about famous visual artists. Links and Show Notes: This will be our last episode of the year! See you in 2022 :) Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Ordinary Days - Wikipedia Fun Home - Wikipedia Moulin Rouge! - Wikipedia Red - Wik…

Betty tells Quinn all about the Florida Highwaymen, a group of African American landscape artists who sold paintings door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars starting in the 1950s. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Florida Highwaymen Harold Newton painting Alfred Hair painting Carnell Smith painting Mary Ann…

In October, the internet came together to laugh about an absurd-sounding art story: a Danish artist had pocketed $84,000 given to him by a museum and returned blank canvasses titled "Take the Money and Run." Today we discuss the Kunsten Museum, Jens Haaning, and what he's trying to do with this art piece. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial wit…

We finish up our religious art mini-series with a look at the temples and sculptures of Hindu art! Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Kailasa Temple, Ellora - Wikipedia Aurangabad - Wikipedia Brahma Sculpture - SFO Museum Vishnu Sculpture - SFO Museum Shiva Sculpture - SFO Museum Shiva as the Lord of Dance - LACMA Co…

In part three of our religious art mini-series, Quinn and Betty talk about the hamsa, Hiddur Mitzvah, and the paintings of Marc Chagall. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Havdalah set Hamsa - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jews and Arabs reimagine the hamsa in Jerusalem exhibition Paris through the Window - The Guggen…

Betty and Quinn look at the art of the biggest religion in the world, Christianity. They cover pieces from catacomb paintings in the fourth century, to the iconic art of Michelangelo, to the surrealist interpretations of Salvador Dalí. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Healing of a bleeding women - Catacombs of Marc…

Quinn and Betty kick off a four-part mini-series on major religious art traditions with a peek into the history of Islamic art. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Kufic Calligraphy Naskh Calligraphy Why did the Islamic World Reject the Printing Press - Al Muqaddimah Vegetal Patterns in Islamic Art - The Metropolitan …

What do the Virgin Mary and the Blue Man Group have in common? Their association with ultramarine blue and its high tech sibling, International Klein Blue. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership International Klein Blue Masaccio. Madonna and Child Raphael Spasimo Works - Yves Klein…

During World War II, hundreds of art experts and historians pushed for some protection and rescue of millions of art pieces and artifacts. In response, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program was created. This week Quinn breaks down some of the most interesting stories and people from the book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves …

What's the relationship between a 19th century occult movement and the development of abstract art? A lot more than you might think! Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Theosophy - Wikipedia Pictorial #32: Piet Mondrian Besant and Klint paintings Wassily Kandinsky - Wikipedia Sérusier Portrait Gauguin Sermon…

Quinn and Betty return to Cyberfeminism by examining the experimental art pieces ALL NEW GEN, Cyberflesh Girlmonster, and Brandon. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership ALL NEW GEN - VNS Matrix Linda Dement - Cyberflesh Girlmonster B R A N D O NBy Betty Chen and Quinn Rose

In our first episode about Cyberfeminism, Quinn walks Betty through the history and principles behind this 90s art movement. Betty reveals her cyborg dreams. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership How the Cyberfeminists Worked to Liberate Women through the Internet - Artsy Donna Haraway - Wikipedia Roboism #38: Triggerin…

Betty shares the style and history of lowbrow art, otherwise known as pop surrealism. They examine a unique version of Katy Perry, and Quinn has a cynical take on the underground-to-art-museum cycle. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership From Pop Surrealism to Lowbrow - Something Got Lost in Translation The Pen Addict -…

How does a priceless piece of Nigerian art disappear, only to be found decades later in a London apartment? Honestly, we're still not quite sure, but Ben Enwonwu and his masterpiece portrait Tutu are fun to talk about anyway. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership The African Mona Lisa - Ben Enwonwu's 'Tutu' 'Tutu' paint…

After bringing up his work in a few previous episodes, we finally dive into the Chinese contemporary artist Song Dong. Betty walks Quinn through several of his major pieces, including Waste Not and Communal Courtyard. Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Artist Talk at AGO 2016 Pace Gallery: Song Dong About the Cultura…