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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,…

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…

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…

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 to claim her work is "aboriginal." © 2020 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall  Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all Additional Music Credits: Talking Drums with Guitar and Bass Mix by Bruce Healey © 2020 Bruce Healey Pride by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4239-pride License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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…

In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblackout, a movement…

AH4A is back with an episode that ROCKS! Allyson discusses the rock art at Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil, and what its story reveals about what we do (or don't) value. © 2020 Allyson Healey Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall  Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all Additional Music Credits: “Harp III Meditation,” by Bruce Healey, used with permission of the composer, © 2020 Bruce Healey “Chalet,” by Meydän, via freemusicarchive.org, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) “Cosmic Relevance,” by Unheard Music Concepts, via freemusicarchive.org, Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

An icon of the head of John the Baptist (c. 1680) from Yaroslavl is the focus of this last episode of 2019, prompting a discussion of how Russia has been viewed across history.

Indigenous Canadian artist Daphne Odjig's painting Bathed in Sunlight (1983) and the larger story of Odjig's career prompt us to think about Native art and how it is (or isn't) included in the mainstream contemporary art world.

It's Halloween 2K19 and Allyson is sharing a very specific type of horror story--art conservation horror stories! Listen in, and then share your own tales of artsy mishaps by emailing allysonh[at]arthistoryforall.com!

There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind--in this episode, Allyson tells you about Botero's 1998 painting L'Odalisque, and talks about how it relates to body image and ideas of the "other."

Allyson discusses Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Girls with Baskets (1966), and how colonialism, class, and global politics affect even the most sentimental of art. ©…