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.
Episodes
17 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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31:46
Athena Asks - Costa Petridis with host Alayo Akinkugbe
Alayo Akinkugbe, the Nigerian art historian and figure behind @blackhistoryofart, interviews Dr Constantine Petridis, Curator of African Art and Chair of the Department of Arts of Africa and the America at the Art Institute of Chicago. They foc...
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Athena Asks - Curator Madeleine Haddon
In this episode, Director of Athena Art Foundation Nicola Jennings talks to Madeleine Haddon about "Nuestra Casa", the exhibition she has curated at New York's Hispanic Society Museum which highlights the interdependence of Spanish and Latin Am...
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Athena Asks - Glenn Brown
Glenn Brown CBE is a British artist who takes the art of previous centuries as the starting point for his own works which feature unsettling images in vibrant colours, with thin, swirling brushstrokes in place of the thick impastos used by mast...
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28:43
What are Museums for? - Sustainability
In preserving our pasts for the benefit of future generations, museums have always been forward looking. But what does the future, and the future of museums, look like? In this episode of
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Athena Asks - Jonquil O'Reilly talks to Timothy McCall about Renaissance fashion and male identity
In fifteenth-century Italy, men like Lionello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, were peacocks, strutting their stuff in scintillating brocades, armour, and jewels to attract attention both to physical beauty and to political power. In this podcast, J...
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What Are Museums For? - Physical/Digital
Digital technologies are continually changing the way we engage with and relate to physical objects. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwillia...
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Episode 6
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What Are Museums For? - Restitution
Every object tells a story, and the stories of how objects ended up in museums can be fraught with political and moral complexity, and even violence. In this episode of ...
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What Are Museums For? - Representation
For many individuals and communities, the history of art has been a history of neglect, exclusivity and exclusion. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennin...
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What Are Museums For? - Legacies
There is increasing recognition that enslavement, racial violence and exploitation are an inextricable part of our collective histories. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena...
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What Are Museums For? - Nation
Museums have traditionally played an important role in the forging of national identity. In this episode of What Are Museums For? Fitzwilliam Museum Dire...
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