Paul Cezanne Drawings
An exhibit of Paul Cezanne Drawings just closed at MOMA, in New York. Our visit there occasioned this discussion of one of the great progenitors of m...
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from WOWD-LP Takoma Park, with Hosts Tom Xenakis and Sheila Blake: The more you look, the more you see – the more you love looking: and sometimes a little background helps.
Creativity, John Dewey, and Aesthetics
Sheila and Tom take on a special topic this week: Creativity. Sheila begins with a discussion of John Dewey’s anti-hierarchical formulation of the ar...
Tudor Place, Washington DC’s Historic House
We visit Tudor Place in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC, the home for over two hundred years of descendants of Martha Washington. The fa...
Artists, the Garden, and Chuck Close
Before continuing in their series considering the relation between artists and their gardens, Tom and Sheila discuss the art of Chuck Close, who died ...
A Portrait of East Baltimore
Sheila and Tom visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum – now-open – to see the new exhibit of documentary photography from East Baltimore in the lat...
Colors From the Earth
In a reprise of a popular episode from 2017, Sheila discusses the origin, history and use of pigments and other paint materials. Guest: Peter Blake
The Painter’s Garden
Continuing to explore the theme of Gardens, Sheila and Tom explore how painters created gardens and painted them. The experience of the gardens, pass...
Lynda Benglis and Sarah Cain at the East Wing
The East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has re-opened, and we visit the exhibitions of Lynda Benglis and Sarah Cain.
Marsden Hartley, Transcendentalist
In honor of Pride Week, we discuss the paintings, career, and struggles of the American Modernist painter, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). We also exami...
The Gardens of Greenbelt
Art as Experience continues her exploration of the links between art, society, and gardens with a look at the tiny gardens that can be walked among in...