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Art History for All

Allyson Healey

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...

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Listen to Art History for All, a Arts podcast by Allyson Healey. Stream 30 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episode 28: No Foolin’

In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability...

35:59Nov 2, 2021

Episode 27: The Incredible Flying Kris

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&...

32:35Aug 9, 2021

Episode 26: The Case of Ingapirca

Allyson returns refreshed after a quarantine-induced slump to tell you all about Ingapirca, an Inka archaeological site whose function has b...

26:25Feb 22, 2021

Episode 25: Aboriginal Glyph

AH4A is back with an examination of Margaret Preston’s 1958 work Aboriginal Glyph, and lots of thoughts about what it means for a whit...

24:30Aug 31, 2020

Episode 24: A Place to Rest

Lots of food for thought in this episode as Allyson discusses a Shona headrest from Zimbabwe in the Met’s collection: how do such obje...

26:18Jun 8, 2020

#podcastblackout

In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblacko...

2:24Jun 1, 2020

Episode 23: Rock Steady

AH4A is back with an episode that ROCKS! Allyson discusses the rock art at Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil, and what its stor...

24:05Mar 9, 2020

Episode 22: Gilded Gingerbread

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 Ru...

27:00Dec 24, 2019

Episode 21: A Paintbrush in Her Hand

Indigenous Canadian artist Daphne Odjig's painting Bathed in Sunlight (1983) and the larger story of Odjig's career prompt us to think about...

29:23Nov 25, 2019

In Focus: Conservation Horror Stories

It's Halloween 2K19 and Allyson is sharing a very specific type of horror story--art conservation horror stories! Listen in, and then share...

14:08Oct 31, 2019

Episode 20: Big Odalisque Energy

There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind--in this episode, Allyson t...

29:20Oct 28, 2019

Episode 19: The Casco and the Yacht

Allyson discusses Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Girls with Baskets (1966), and how colonialism, class, and global politics affe...

29:24Oct 1, 2019

Episode 18: As Much Worker as Woman

Allyson discusses Myra Albert Wiggins's The Lacemaker (1899, Portland Museum of Art), workin' hard for the money, and types of labor that we...

30:09Aug 26, 2019

Episode 17: First Lady to Travel Over Sea

Esther Mahlangu's Untitled, 2008 has simple geometry, but a complex context--Allyson talks about its connections to commerce, soccer, and......

29:38Jun 25, 2019

Episode 16: Invasion of the Night

It's a mind-bending episode as Allyson guides you through Roberto Matta's surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explor...

29:02May 27, 2019

Episode 15: Compared to Rocks and Mountains

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...

29:25Apr 29, 2019

Episode 14: Happiness and Color

Allyson teaches you all about québécoise painter and stained glass artist Marcelle Ferron, whose windows at the Champ-de-Mars Métro station...

25:26Mar 26, 2019

Episode 13: Namatjira’s Creek

In this episode, Allyson goes down under and discusses the life of Albert Namatjira, his watercolor painting Catherine Creek, Northern Terri...

29:02Feb 28, 2019

Episode 12: Wrecked

Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disas...

31:58Jan 29, 2019

Episode 11: Suspended on a Golden Chain

Hagia Sophia has had many lives over the centuries: from church, to mosque, to secular museum, it’s always taken center stage in its c...

32:16Dec 24, 2018

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