Art Damaged

Some of art history’s most memorable damage has been entirely accidental. From awkward stumbles to unsupervised toddlers, this episode shows how simple mistakes and unlikely mishaps can have extraordinary consequences for works of art. This episode comes with a free digital zine! Download here: https://artdamagedproject.com/podcast/zines Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art_damaged S...

Art is sometimes damaged without motive, intention, or even human intervention. In this episode, we consider the unpredictable circumstances that can determine an artwork’s fate, from natural disasters and structural failures to animal encounters and simple gravity.  This episode comes with a free digital zine! Download here: https://artdamagedproject.com/podcast/zines Follow on Instagram: https:/...

Not every attack on an artwork comes with a political message, symbolic purpose, or even a legible motive. In this episode, we turn our focus to apparently meaningless acts of intentional damage and consider what they might tell us about the ways people encounter, value, and respond to art, both in and outside of the gallery space.  This episode comes with a free digital zine! Download here: https...

For centuries, people have attacked works of art to draw attention to causes, convictions, and grievances that extend beyond the objects themselves. Following a throughline from the Suffragettes to today’s climate activists, this episode asks what has made art such a frequent and effective vehicle for political protest.  This episode comes with a free digital zine! Download here: https://artdamage...

Join host Christopher Schreck as we explore true-life stories of artworks being altered, defaced, damaged, and destroyed, with motivations ranging from the personal to the political, accidental to artistic and beyond.  Free digital zines: https://artdamagedproject.com/podcast/zines Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art_damaged Subscribe to the newsletter: https://artdamagedproject.sub...

For as long as images have embodied power, people have sought to destroy them. From ancient Egypt to the modern avant-garde and contemporary social movements, this episode traces the long (and ongoing) history of iconoclasm and what it reveals about art’s role in shaping authority, collective memory, and cultural change.  This episode comes with a free digital zine! Download here: https://artdamag...

Join host Christopher Schreck as he explores true-life stories of artworks being defaced, damaged, and destroyed for reasons ranging from the personal to the political, accidental to artistic.