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Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined.…

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This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance whose metier is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike. It's also an eloquent argument for the enduring value of visual creativity, told with passion, brilliance, and surprising candor.

Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, for a variety of journals and magazines. Gathering them for this book, he realised that he had unwittingly been retracing the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.

The idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images? Why have they sometimes been so contentious?

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem that explores the unique stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests — from artists, to musicians, to politicians and more.

Mia, Myra & Bel have quite a lot in common, including a shared love of art history and a tendency toward hyper fixation.Each week they share research-based stories with each other in hopes of finding connections between visual cultures, past and present.

Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his best-selling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of Belle Epoque high society. They were also targets of anti-Semitism. Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French 18th-century art for his son to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz, read by Roy McMilllan. What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.

这档播客尝试打破日常谈话的边界，讨论房间中的白色大象、平日餐桌上让我们沉默的话题，涉及到人性、欲望、自我探索、社会问题，偶尔聊聊剧集、电影，一起探索生命价值与意义。

Judy, Linda and Teresa pick and watch a recent Korean drama, then gush and/or rant about it. If you love Korean dramas, and have questions about Korean culture or subtext in dialogue that may have been lost in translation, let us know! Now available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms!

"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of light and shadow. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft.

Art historian, art collector, curator, and writer Charles Moore takes you on an exquisite journey through the world of the Black artists who revolutionized contemporary art and the patrons who dedicated their lives to collecting their works. Through interviews and dialogues, Moore captures the essence of exceptional Black artists, exploring their quests for recognition of their brilliance.

Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a unique way. Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life. Part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience, this book is nonetheless all story.

Exhibition curator and Henry Raeburn expert Amanda Herries gives a fascinating insight into this special exhibition at Kirkcudbright Galleries in 2024. It brings together works by Scotland's foremost portrait painter, many from private collections, which haven't been seen in public for some time, some possibly ever.About the host: Amanda Herries read Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge. In 1978 she became curator at the Museum of London, specialising in the decorative arts from 1718 to present day. In 1988 she moved to Japan, lecturing and writing on Oriental/Western cross-cultural and ...

The National Guardsmen waited for the Flying Eyes, restlessly fingering their rifles and machine guns. Then they came-eight of them-diving straight at the men. The men opened fire. One of the Eyes shot upward, blood and tears streaming from its wound. As the men watched, a glaze spread over the wound drawing the hole together. The Eye was healed and whole again-and it gazed at the men with the same sinister expression they had seen before. Then the full horror of what they had witnessed hit them. Nothing could stop these weird, disem- bodied creatures who were daily hypnotizing thousands of ...

What do Fatal Attraction, a strip club that serves chicken strips, and a Talkboy have in common? Honestly, not a whole lot, but they're all topics of conversation on your new favorite podcast, My Eyes Are Up Here.Let Shay and Danielle, the fun, charming, and attractive brother-and-sister duo, take you on a unique trip through all of pop culture's twists, turns and roadblocks, with NSFW conversations, improv skits, and even a few mock advertisements thrown in for good measure.Your ears won't know whether to laugh, cry, or cower in fear—we're that ear-irritating, or better yet, ear-resistible!...

From Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach, one of the first modernist paintings in Britain, to Paul Nash's work bearing the scars of his experience in the trenches and Martin Parr's photographs of seaside resorts in the 1980s that tackle ideas of class and deprivation, Looking to Sea embraces ideas from modernism and the sublime, the impact of the world wars and colonialism, to issues crucial to our world today like the environment and nationhood. Looking to Sea is an astonishingly perceptive portrait of the twentieth century.

Journey through 3,000 years of art and history to shine a light on the hidden stories behind the world's most famous works of art.

Actor/comedian Connor Ratliff (The Chris Gethard Show, UCB, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) embarks upon a quest to solve a very stupid mystery that has haunted him for two decades: why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series, Band Of Brothers.