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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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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 century through tapestries, embroideries, goldwork and portraits full of enigmatic symbols.…
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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 Victorian Sculpture, now showing at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK (also co-curated by the Director of At…
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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 by Nelson and Wendy S. Walters. Organised around a single object, the marble bust Why Born Enslaved! by 19th-…
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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 Ireland) about an upcoming exhibition devoted to Lavinia's remarkable art and career. Lavinia Fontana: Tr…
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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 fash…
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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 focus on his new exhibition The Language of Beauty in African Art, which challenges Western framing of this a…
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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 American art, and the hidden, sometimes dark histories of some of the collection's most beautiful objects.…
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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 masters such as Rembrandt and Ribera. Nicola asks him about his approach as well as about his interest in fram…
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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 What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Professor Rebecca Kilner and Esme W…
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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, Jonquil O'Reilly, fashion historian and Old Master specialist at Christies, talks to Timothy McCall, Associ…
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Digital technologies are continually changing the way we engage with and relate to physical objects. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Alayo Akinkugbe, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE and Daniel Pett, to discuss the current digital opportunitie…
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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 What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Professor Nicholas Thomas and Dr Donna Yates, to consi…
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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 Jennings are joined by Rebecca Birrell, Jennifer Higgie and Dan Vo, to consider representation in the context of…
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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 Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Aindrea Emelife and John Orna-Ornstein, to consider museums’ respon…
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Museums have traditionally played an important role in the forging of national identity. In this episode of What Are Museums For? Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Sussan Babaie and Gabriele Finaldi, to discuss the relationship between museums and nationhood. How do ideas about n…
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What are museums for? Whose stories do they tell? How do they decide which aspects of the past to preserve and represent? Join Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and Nicola Jennings, Director of the Athena Art Foundation, over the next few months for six conversations with curators, museum directors, activists and writers …
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Nicola Jennings talks to Sussan Babaie and Ina Sarikhani about the Epic Iran exhibition at London's V&A and the extremely sophisticated culture that flourished in Central Asia from about 3,000 BCE. Looking at some of the exhibition highlights, such as gold beakers, cloisonné jewellery and exquisite paintings in the Shanameh or Book of Kings, they d…
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