
Athena Art Foundation
Athena Asks is an art history podcast series. In each new episode, a host from Athena Art Foundation speaks exclusively with a different art historian, curator or artist about a current exhibition or project. Their conversation takes a deep dive into the core ideas, motivations, development and execution of the exhibition, and locates it in the wider cultural conversations and questions.
Podcasting since 2021 • 17 episodes
Athena Art Foundation
Latest Episodes
Athena Asks - Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker with host Jonquil O'Reilly
In this episode, Jonquil O'Reilly talks to Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, the curators of "Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about their exhibition and transporting the viewer back to the 16th...
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Athena Asks - Dr Caitlin Beach and Dr Mia L. Bagneris with host Dr Adrienne Childs
This episode of Athena Asks focuses on race, representation and colonialism in 19th-century Victorian sculpture. It is hosted by Dr Adrienne Childs, co-curator of the new exhibition The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victori...
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Athena Asks - Elyse Nelson with host Dr Madeleine Haddon
In this episode of Athena Asks, host Dr Madeleine Haddon talks to Elyse Nelson (Assistant Curator in European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Met in New York) about the current show Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, co-curated ...
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Athena Asks - Aoife Brady with host Jonquil O'Reilly
Lavinia was born in 1552 in Bologna and went on to be the first professional woman artist in Western Europe. In this episode of Athena Asks, Jonquil O'Reilly talks to Dr Aoife Brady (Curator of Italian and Spanish Art at the National Gallery of...
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Athena Asks - Dr Rosalind McKever with host Jonquil O'Reilly
Jonquil O'Reilly, fashion historian and Old Master specialist at Christies, talks to Dr Rosalind McKever, Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. They discuss "Fashioning Masculinities, the Art of Me...
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