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from WOWD-LP Takoma Park, with Hosts Tom Xenakis and Sheila Blake: The more you look, the more you see – the more you love looking: and sometimes a little background helps.
This is our last regularly-scheduled episode for WOWD-LP Takoma Park, although we may, from time to time, present a special unscheduled epis...
The National Gallery of Art, in Washington DC, has mounted a small exhibition showing three sublime Vermeer paintings and three false Vermee...
Sargent, as revealed in Sargent and Spain, the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, gives us visions that are full of desire and c...
We explore the art of Robert Rauschenberg, the influence of John Cage, and two of Rauschenberg’s paintings, Factum 1 and Factum 2, currently...
Hosts Sheila and Peter Blake visit the outsider/folk/self-taught art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: We are Made of Stories:...
Sheila and Peter Blake use the current exhibition, The Double, Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, at the East Wing of the National G...
Sheila Blake and Peter Blake discuss portraiture as a art form, and the current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the finalaists...
With insights from our recent episode on postmodernism, we reprise our conversation about the Laurie Anderson exhibit currently at the Hirsh...
Sheila and Peter Blake discuss postmodernism in the visual arts and architecture: what it is, in plain terms, and how it followed from and d...
We’re posting a lightly edited rebroadcast of last year’s popular program on the American modernist painter, Marsden Hartley. Peter and Shei...
We visit the new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Afro-Atlantic Histories, an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultura...
We examine the practice of learning to draw, the advantages to non-professionals in learning to draw, and some tips.
Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000) was a major American painter. Sheila was a friend of his, beginning in art school in NYC. Sheila and Tom recol...
Sheila, Tom, and Peter discuss the use of photography by painters.
The Baltimore Museum of Art has just put up a show curated by the guards. The works repay long observation, as you might expect for the choi...
Joan Mitchell at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Sheila, Tom, and Peter discuss Abstract Expressionism.
We visit the new exhibition at the Phillips Collection, in Washington DC: Picasso: Painting the Blue Period. We discuss the transition of Pi...
Tom, Sheila, and Peter discuss the dark side of Picasso’s life, and give an introduction to his innovations in art, and how the revelations...
We discuss several major Black visual artists from before, during, and after the Harlem Renaissance (with a nod to philosopher Alain Locke):...
Our hosts, Sheila and Tom, with Peter Blake, visit Glenstone, discuss issues in contemporary art brought up by sculptures by Charles Ray, ch...
After several visits to the Laurie Anderson Exhibit at the Hirschhorn Museum, in Washington DC, Sheila and Peter discuss this avant garde ar...
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful is the title of the retrospective of Alma Thomas at the Phillips Collection, in Washington DC. Sheil...
Sheila, Tom, and guest Peter Blake discuss the David Driskell exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Driskell was a painter...
We interview local puppeteer, Rachel Gates.
Sheila and Tom discuss the Spanish painter, Juan Gris, a compatriot, contemporary, and rival of Picasso – on the occasion of a current exhib...
We have edited an earlier episode, from 2018, adding a new introduction to our show on Cezanne Portraits. This episode adds to and reinforce...
An exhibit of Paul Cezanne Drawings just closed at MOMA, in New York. Our visit there occasioned this discussion of one of the great progeni...
Sheila and Tom take on a special topic this week: Creativity. Sheila begins with a discussion of John Dewey’s anti-hierarchical formulation...
We visit Tudor Place in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC, the home for over two hundred years of descendants of Martha Washingto...
Before continuing in their series considering the relation between artists and their gardens, Tom and Sheila discuss the art of Chuck Close,...
Sheila and Tom visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum – now-open – to see the new exhibit of documentary photography from East Baltimore...
In a reprise of a popular episode from 2017, Sheila discusses the origin, history and use of pigments and other paint materials. Guest: Pete...
Continuing to explore the theme of Gardens, Sheila and Tom explore how painters created gardens and painted them. The experience of the gard...
The East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has re-opened, and we visit the exhibitions of Lynda Benglis and Sarah Cain.
In honor of Pride Week, we discuss the paintings, career, and struggles of the American Modernist painter, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). We a...
Art as Experience continues her exploration of the links between art, society, and gardens with a look at the tiny gardens that can be walke...
In a week where Sheila Blake is preparing her exhibition at the Foundry Gallery in Washington DC, we are updating a recording of an earlier...
We visit again the great new modernist museum in Potomac Maryland, the Glenstone, and discuss the current retrospective exhibition of Faith...
We visit the Phillips Collection, this country’s first modern art museum, which has reopened for its 100th anniversary with an exhibition hi...
Our second show about artists who create in areas other than the one that has made them a name. Tom and Sheila discuss the paintings and pra...
Sheila and Tom explore the professional, sexual, exploitative, inspirational, cooperative, and ambiguous relations between artists and their...
Today, program 101, we discuss artist couples who have been working side by side, in partnership. We begin with two couples profiled in Inti...
Sheila and Tom discuss monuments dedicated to African Americans – especially those created by African American Artists, many in Washington D...
A number of musicians, poets, and even politicians have seriously developed as visual artists, usually painters. Today, Sheila and Tom discu...
Sheila and Tom explore the late careers of William Turner, Georgia O’Keefe, Joan Miró, Giorgio De Chirico, Ivan Albright, and Larry Poons.
Sheila examines the history of American Portraiture, from the early colonial self-taught limners, through the virtuosos of the late nineteen...
In this program we discuss the late careers of artists whose work evolved into something different, something new, and something beautiful....
Pierre Bonnard, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Al Held, and Hokusai: these are the artists whose late careers are discussed tod...
Sheila and Tom discuss the the careers and late paintings of artists who painted to the ends of their long lives: Henri Matisse, Claude Mone...
Tom and Sheila discuss the artist Philip Guston, his work, and the controversy – due to the images in his work of hooded klansmen – that has...