Bet You Wish This Was An Art Podcast

Happy July! Stay inside! Stay safe!  Come sit around the academic campfire of our hearts, and join us in our article discussion of "The Trouble with (The Term) Art" by author Carolyn Dean. We love her, we love this article, we need more discussions on how to classify art. Can we talk about Art without talking about colonialism? What is Art by Intention or Art by Appropriation? Do we put too m...

Come one, come all, as we gather together to watch history being made as another history is torn down. But, it's not the history you'd think. Why are there so many Confederate statues in the United States? Where did they come from? Where can they go? Find out the long history of iconoclasm, where current events meet Hannah Montana references, and the long nature of destroying the symbols of ideolo...

There's a lot of white in nature. It's just a thing, a color, the by-product of calcium. But alas, it just also had to be associated with Ancient Rome and purity, and we've never recovered. Your host will never learn.  This week, we watched BBC Four's "The History of Art in Three Colors" series, watching the "White" episode for our Movie Night....... And Booooy Howdy. To no one's surprise, the art...

We are trained to see the patterns in arts and culture, but too often white privilege gives us the opportunity to overlook the systemic racism in museums. This week’s guest is Tania Comenencia, a Dutch heritage researcher who focuses on the last legacy of slavery in the Netherlands, and she helps us further the discussion of how systemic racism impacts culture. Find out how the individual perspect...

The First Pride Was a Riot. In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblackout. The movement was started by the Cult 45: The Movie podcast. BYWAP is pro-black, pro-protect, anti-cop, anti-racist.  Donate. Sign petitions. Support Black owned businesses. Educate yourselves. Listen. Speak. Please do not s...

May is Art Theft Month, and today's episode is no exception. To finish strong, your hosts have finally tackled The Parthenon Marbles debacle, and what this means in the context of art theft. Find out how these architectural marvels ended up at the British Museum, why Greece wants them back, and watch us find the most roundabout way of saying “repatriation”, but you’ll know what we mean when w...

Extra, Extra! Read all about it: pretentious white European thinks he has claim to ancient Egyptian artifacts! And no one was surprised.  Today we talk about Art of the Heist's enthralling episode "The Pharaoh's Head"!  Jonathan Tokeley-Parry led a life of riches, art smuggling, and the heist of a lifetime... Only to be betrayed by the simplest of oversights. What exactly did he take? Why does it...

I Scream, You Scream, we all Scream! And Can't Stop Screaming! Today we talk about the captivating nature of Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch's haunting painting: The Scream. So much happened to this painting... Like, so much. And we're so excited to be sharing this with you! Sometimes you have to have major drama for the world to love you, and this painting is no exception. Find out ho...

As all is fair in love and war, such is the wild nature of all things art crime. We begining “Art Theft Month” with the captivating and utterly wild story of the lost and found Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece. Find out what it takes to steal a Renaissance painting, how we’re holding up during the pandemic, why you shouldn’t trust a smirking chick with no eyebrows, and is the painting at the Louvre *...

Join us on a picnic: no clothes required! As we celebrate double digits on podcast episodes, we look at another sort of progenitor. Avant-garde artist Édouard Manet (not Monet, but he’s in here too) is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the Impressionist movement, but is that really true? This week’s episode analyzes the life & times of the artsy bourgeois, makes a hundred different r...

Boy, oh, boy—does this get heated! How's April treating, y'all? Good? Bad? Are you tired? Please drink more water, you deserve it.  Today's episode looks at Richard Sandell's (2003)  "Museums and the combating of social inequality: roles, responsibilities, resistance" article. Find out how passionate your hosts are about the current state of museum affairs, our anime-filled pandemic plans,  #Museu...

This week we're popping popcorn, bringing out our conservation tools & brushes, and fighting Nazis. That's right: we're watching the 2014 film Monuments Men—the Saving-Private-Ryan of art films. Join us for a boozy rambling of the most active job museum people can get, a celebration of badasses spying on Nazis, a shocking discovery of the Clooney family, the importance of culture, lots of vague re...

Extra, extra, read all about it: BYWAP is coming to you weekly! Today, we’re finally sitting down and introducing ourselves properly. Find out what brought us into the arts and heritage field, our podcast identity hiccups, some “Little Mermaid” references, and our plans for the COVID-19 new future. Stay Safe. Don't Touch Your Face. Wash Your Hands. Find us online! You can follow BYWAP on Twitter a...

As we find ourselves in a new kind of current events storm, we're joined today by Silvija Burbaitė, who gives us an insight into one museum worker's perspective of museum work, international travel, and the Los Angeles Lockdown situation. Things may have changed dramatically in the span of a week, but we do our best to bemoan the current state of Museum Affairs while also offering small, cultural...

The only March Madness that's not getting canceled this month is the final part of our series! Today finishes our discussion of Linda Nochlin's (1971) "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" article. While we were hoping that between the parts we could resolve this whole debacle, we will just have to see if Part 2 solves it! Find out how we're planning to change the world with clout, how ess...

Welcome to February: the month that refuses to slow down! Today is the first of a two-part series, looking into Linda Nochlin's (1971) "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" article. Find out how to avoid getting into fist fights over poorly-phrased questions, what the lasting impact of the Feminist Movement on Art History has been, why there's no such thing as "The Genius",  and where...

An investigation of David Lynch & his art

Happy Holiday Season! Today we get a *little* R-rated as we talk about one of (art) history's pettiest rivalries: Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio and Giovanni Baglione. Find out how little your two hosts like Mannerism, why you shouldn't write your enemy's biography, and our Hot Takes on the Art Basel Banana. Help BYWAP grow by spreading the word! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram. Also,...

Happy Scorpio Season! We celebrate Elene's birthday by releasing our first episode! Today we talk about the mythos and reality of the world famous Mexican icon: Frida Kahlo. Find out what the significance of the Mexican revolution was on Frida's life, how we manage to weave High School Musical references into everything, and how sometimes you have to invent your own mythology to circumvent mortali...

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