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From art lovers to art haters to art-is-just-okay-ers, Art History for All aims to get all kinds of people thinking about art and what it means to them. Each episode, Allyson Healey tackles a single work of art and its history and larger significance, always asking the question: so what? Art History for All takes you beyond the art historical canon and helps you find the way in which art speaks to you (even if it's never spoken to you before)
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In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability history, and rethinking how we view disabled people. Book rec: Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong, 2020. (I listened to the audiobook version, but you can Buy on Bookshop.org also) © 2021 Allyson Heal…
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The podcast returns as sharp as ever with a discussion of an example of a Malaysian blade called a kris! Allyson talks about the transition from Hinduism to Islam in Southeast Asia, tales from the Mahabharata, and the impact of colonialism (again). © 2021 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2021 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us …
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Allyson returns refreshed after a quarantine-induced slump to tell you all about Ingapirca, an Inka archaeological site whose function has been obscured by time and imperialism. To learn more about the Inka Empire in convenient podcast form, check out ahistoryoftheinca.wordpress.com or search for A History of the Inca in your favorite podcatcher! ©…
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AH4A is back with an examination of Margaret Preston’s 1958 work Aboriginal Glyph, and lots of thoughts about what it means for a white woman to claim her work is “aboriginal.” © 2020 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthis…
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Lots of food for thought in this episode as Allyson discusses a Shona headrest from Zimbabwe in the Met’s collection: how do such objects come to be in Western museums? Should they be returned to their cultures of origin? © 2020 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Get involved with Black Lives Matte…
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In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblackout, a movement begun by the Cult 45 Podcast. The list of victims of police violence in this episode is significantly abbreviated. Below are some resources to educate yourself on anti-racism and support anti-rac…
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AH4A is back with an episode that ROCKS! Allyson discusses the rock art at Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil, and what its story reveals about what we do (or don’t) value. © 2020 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.e…
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An icon of the head of John the Baptist (c. 1680) from Yaroslavl is the focus of this last episode of 2019, prompting a discussion of how Russia has been viewed across history. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthis…
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Indigenous Canadian artist Daphne Odjig’s painting Bathed in Sunlight (1983) and the larger story of Odjig’s career prompt us to think about Native art and how it is (or isn’t) included in the mainstream contemporary art world. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi…
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It’s Halloween 2K19 and Allyson is sharing a very specific type of horror story–art conservation horror stories! Listen in, and then share your own tales of artsy mishaps by emailing allysonh[at]arthistoryforall.com! © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthis…
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There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind–in this episode, Allyson tells you about Botero’s 1998 painting L’Odalisque, and talks about how it relates to body image and ideas of the “other.” © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4…
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Allyson discusses Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Girls with Baskets (1966), and how colonialism, class, and global politics affect even the most sentimental of art. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4a…
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Allyson discusses Myra Albert Wiggins’s The Lacemaker (1899, Portland Museum of Art), workin’ hard for the money, and types of labor that we might not see as labor. This one’s for you, needleworkers! © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other …
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Episode 17: First Lady to Travel Over Sea
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Esther Mahlangu’s Untitled, 2008 has simple geometry, but a complex context–Allyson talks about its connections to commerce, soccer, and… BMWs? © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all Additional Music Credits: Music from http…
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It’s a mind-bending episode as Allyson guides you through Roberto Matta’s surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its connections to physics and psychology. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all…
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Episode 15: Compared to Rocks and Mountains
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Allyson guides you through the eleventh-century Chinese handscroll painting Summer Mountains, (北宋 傳屈鼎 夏山圖 卷) by little-known painter Qu Ding (屈鼎). © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all Additional Music Credits: Music from h…
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Allyson teaches you all about québécoise painter and stained glass artist Marcelle Ferron, whose windows at the Champ-de-Mars Métro station in Montréal are a unique example of public art. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter: @arthistory4all Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall Additional Music Credits: “Let That Sink In” by L…
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In this episode, Allyson goes down under and discusses the life of Albert Namatjira, his watercolor painting Catherine Creek, Northern Territory (circa 1950), and the situation of Aboriginal Australians in the early to mid-twentieth century. © 2019 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey Twitter: @arthistory4all Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryfo…
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Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get into the shipwreck on which it was based as well as how it’s used today in pop cultural milestones like Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APES**T” video. You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthist…
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Hagia Sophia has had many lives over the centuries: from church, to mosque, to secular museum, it’s always taken center stage in its city, whether you call it Istanbul or Constantinople. This episode explores its history, from the violent to the serene, and how the building remains a site of change and shifts in power. You can find a transcript of …
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Episode 10: A Sketch of Native American History
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This episode gets a bit obscure and focuses on a single woodcut from David Cusick’s 1828 book Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, the earliest English-language account of Iroquois history. You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category. © 2018 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2018 Bruce Heal…
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Episode 9: Fiends, Frankenstein, and Fuseli
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We’re getting spooky in this episode and looking at Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, by far one of the eeriest paintings in Western art history! Perhaps this image reminds you of something… You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or RadioPubl…
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This episode is a bit more multidimensional, mainly because we’re talking about a sculpture! Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Malcolm X #3 is titled in memory of Malcolm X, but this abstract stele is more than just a funerary monument… You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category. © 2018 Allyson Healey Them…
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The game is afoot as we investigate the theft of Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert–or, more accurately, investigate how that theft affects how we look at the painting itself. You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category. © 2018 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2018 Bruce Healey Twitter: @arthistory4all K…
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Get your shutter fingers ready, because in this episode we’re talking about a photograph! Specifically, Laura Aguilar’s Three Eagles Flying (1990). **This podcast contains discussions of lynching, torture, and death. Listener discretion is advised.** You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category. ©…
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