Art Analysis and History Podcasts
Accession
Accession brings art to life with story and sound. Each episode picks a piece from a museum, and guides the listener to a deeper understanding of the art. To do this, we venture into biography, aesthetics, history, fiction, poetry, and more. Let’s make magic with art.
Art Curious Podcast
ArtCurious Podcast explore’s the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in Art History.
Art History Babes
Four fresh Masters drink wine and discuss all things visual culture.
Art History for All
Art History for All is dedicated to increasing the accessibility of visual art by discussing how art from throughout human history is relevant to us right now. This podcast looks beyond the traditional art historical canon and considers a global history of art and material culture in a casual, conversational way.
Art Sistory
A traveling art history podcast where two sisters put art to the ultimate test: can it really make you feel alive?
Bet You Wish This Was An Art Podcast
A podcast by two art history nerds who needed an outlet to yell about the world. Hosted by Elene Kadagidze and Stephanie Antonijuan.
The Lonely Palette
Each episode of The Lonely Palette, creator and host Tamar Avishai picks an object du jour, interviews unsuspecting passers-by in front of it, and then dives deeply into the movement, the social context, the anecdotes, and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her.
Pictorial
Quinn and Betty are two non-professional art enthusiasts who love art and want to share it with you. They get together to discuss interesting aspects of art history and culture, spanning anything and everything that can be remotely considered as art.
Please Touch the Art
Please Touch The Art makes art accessible to everyone by breaking down art theory piece by piece in a unique audio format. Each episode is educational, interesting, and digestible. Episodes are released bi-weekly, and each episode focuses on one work. Kieve discusses each piece with a guest, and guests have different levels of experience.
Museum and Art Culture Podcasts
Art Accordingly
Join Quanice and Joshua as they highlight artists and arts leaders of color in the performing and visual arts world, and interrogate systemic and institutional issues of equity in the arts from a decolonizing framework. We just out here trying to shake the table.
The C Word- The Conservators' Podcast
We talk about all sorts of things from the perspective of conservation professionals, from museum trends and new technology to the big issues like pay and staying safe at work.
The Jealous Curator: Art for Your Ear
ART FOR YOUR EAR brings you stories from contemporary artists. You'll hear first-hand from these talented, successful, full-time artists (who also happen to be regular people with hilarious stories) before they’re in the Art History books.
Museum Archipelago
Museum Archipelago believes that no museum is an island and museums are not neutral. Each episode, host Ian Elsner brings you to a different museum around the world, diving into institutional structural problems and introducing you to those working to fix them, all under 15 minutes.
Museums in Strange Places
Welcome to Museums in Strange Places, a podcast for people who love museums, stories, culture, and exploring the world.
Weird Appalachia
A weekly, Kentucky-based podcast about Art and Appalachian Oddities.
The Whitest Cube
The Whitest Cube is a podcast about the exclusionary history of art institutions from the perspective of people of color. We're looking at the current practices that stem from their colonial history, sharing our stories, and highlighting movements that critique the status-quo and reveal potentially transformative paths forward.
Museum Specific Podcasts
A Long Look: SLOW ART in the National Gallery
In each episode, A Long Look take’s you through the slow art experience while looking at works in the amazing collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. You’ll also hear about the history, mystery or controversy that are part of each work’s past.
Raw Materials by SFMoMA
Raw Material is an arts and culture podcast from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Each season we partner with a different “podcaster-in-residence” to explore modern and contemporary art through a new lens. Along the way we bring you voices of artists and thinkers from around the globe who offer surprising perspectives on the world through their work.
Inactive Podcasts and Completed Series
The Memory Palace (MET Residency)- Final Episode on September 5, 2017
Nate DiMeo was the Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 2016/2017, during which time he produced eight stories inspired by the Met and its collection.
Your Art Sucks - Former Podcast Archived on YouTube
Your Art Sucks Podcast was started with the intention of helping artists create better art. To do this, each episode focuses on legendary, and unknown artists, reviews their lives to uncover opportunities we, the artist, have to gain from their successes or failures. By learning what works and what doesn't, we can improve our processes and, hopefully, create better art.
A Piece of Work- Completed
A Piece of Work is everything you want to know about modern and contemporary art but were afraid to ask. Hosted by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, this 10-episode series explores everything from Pop Art to performance in lively conversations with curators, artists and Abbi’s friends, including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul and Questlove.