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.
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Athena Asks - Dr Rosalind McKever with host Jonquil O'Reilly
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Colnaghi Foundation and Athena Art Foundation
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 Menswear", now on at the V&A, which celebrates the artistry and diversity of contemporary and historical male fashion, with displays including a black velvet tuxedo dress worn by Billy Porter at the Oscars, a sequinned outfit worn by Timothy Chalamet, and classical sculptures which have shaped notions of the ideal male body,