Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
London’s Blitz club in 1980 had a huge impact on the way the decade looked and sounded, the launchpad for Boy George, Spandau Ballet, a new age of electro-pop and many writers, designers and photographers. The author and broadcaster Robert Elms was one of its cornerstones, “a place for people who...
Eva Helene Pade
I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most exciting young painters working today, Eva Helene Pade.
Born in Denmark in 1997, and based in Paris – where we are recording today – Pade is known for her rich and emotionally-charged, large-scale canvases populated with...
Ern Malley, Joe Nuxhall, Vojtěch Preissig and The Buzz Bomb
In this episode, the American Timelines gang explore historical and artistic topics, including baseball history, World War II recruitment posters, and the development of the V1 flying bomb. Specifically:
Joe Nuxhall's Record-Breaking MLB Debut
Joe shares the story of Joe Nuxhall, who at 15 yea...
The eternal Pietà
I’ve been staring at Otto Dix’s Mother and Child. It is a haunting thing to look at. The longer you stare, the more it stares back. What we expect from a painting with that title—something tender, something holy—is stripped away. There are no soft halos here, no warm golds or signs of divine prom...
T.O.P. Podcast: Season 2 - Episode 3: The Fracture - Art and Meaning Between the Wars
PART ONE: The Fracture — Art and Meaning Between the Wars
A T.O.P. Podcast Episode
World War One did not simply devastate Europe physically — it shattered meaning itself. In this episode of the T.O.P. Podcast, Michael DiMatteo explores how writers and artists between the World Wars responded to t...
Peacebuilding through the visual Arts - Jolyon Mitchell
How can the visual arts be used to promote peace? Professor Mitchell investigates how the visual arts can not only incite violence, but also bear witness, reveal dangerous memories, transform violence, contribute to healing trauma and imagine more hopeful futures. Examples are taken from both cur...
A brush with... Caragh Thuring
Caragh Thuring talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Thuring, who was born in Brussels in 1972 and has lived in the UK since 1973 makes paintings that present fragments of im...
Reel Faith | Mercy Bows, Evil Breaks
In 1914, millions of young men marched into the trenches expecting glory and found a slaughterhouse instead. Out of that same darkness, two men drew opposite conclusions. The painter Otto Dix saw proof that beauty was a lie, and J.R.R. Tolkien saw hints of something truer breaking through the rui...
What Berlin Teaches Us About Resisting Tyranny: Wendy Lesser’s Cautionary Mirror for Our Times
“Hitler had to abolish democracy to take over Berlin.” — Wendy Lesser
“Ich bin ein Berliner” (I Am a Berliner), JFK famously said in West Berlin on June 26, 1963, in the face of Soviet imperial tyranny. Today, Wendy Lesser is offering the same defiance in her new book Berlin Before and After. O...
