Art History for All

Allyson Healey

Arts Education

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30 episodes

Episode 28: No Foolin’
2021/11/02 | 35 mins.
In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability history,…
Episode 27: The Incredible Flying Kris
2021/8/09 | 32 mins.
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…
Episode 26: The Case of Ingapirca
2021/2/22 | 26 mins.
Allyson returns refreshed after a quarantine-induced slump to tell you all about Ingapirca, an Inka archaeological site whose function has been obscured by time and…
Episode 25: Aboriginal Glyph
2020/8/31 | 24 mins.
AH4A is back with an examination of Margaret Preston’s 1958 work Aboriginal Glyph, and lots of thoughts about what it means for a white woman…
Episode 24: A Place to Rest
2020/6/08 | 26 mins.
Lots of food for thought in this episode as Allyson discusses a Shona headrest from Zimbabwe in the Met’s collection: how do such objects come…

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About Art History for All

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 a single work of art and its history and larger significance, always asking the question: so what? Art History for All takes you beyond the art historical canon and helps you find the way in which art speaks to you (even if it's never spoken to you before)

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