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Highbrow Honey

Welcome to your weekly sweet bite of art history! Together with host Celia Bugno, listeners will make their way through today"s ever-expanding visual culture by discussing major arts-world stories from the last week each Tuesday, and by deep-diving into groundbreaking moments from the art historical past once-monthly. Talking through the weird, the infamous, the hilarious, and even the seemingly pointless of visual culture in order to understand our present, Celia brings you all the "highbrow"

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42:04

The Frilly, the Flirty, and the Fete Galante

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/02/04

Bonjour, Honeys! This week we are talking about a movement known for being superficial, visually pleasurable, and full of fun scenes: get ready to Rococo. We'll focus on some of the flirtiest and frilliest of the movement's artworks to understand how the death of the Sun King inspired a culture of luxury and lushness in 18th century France. Deep diving into some of the most famous pre-Revolution French pieces will lead us to uncover the social motivations and the titillating tales behind them. And

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23:53

The Beesness #49

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/02/04

Hello Honeys! This week's edition of The Beesness, as always, features a bit more than the usual: 24 minutes of arts news and events from around the world considered notable by your host. This edition we will be looking back at January 26--February 1 2025, with some of the top stories including the arrest of thieves who blasted open a Dutch museum entrance to steal gold pieces, the denial of queer erasure claims leveled against a new Smithsonian show, and the Van Gogh Museum's refusal to attribute a

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21:30

The Beesness #48

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/27

Hello, Honeys! This week's edition of The Beesness, as always, features 15 minutes of arts news and events from around the world considered notable by yours truly, your host. In today's edition we will be looking back at January 19--25 2025, with some of the top stories including the resurfacing of a lost miniature by Lavinia Fontana at a Texas auction, the levelling of two lawsuits against LA’s Broad Museum alleging retaliation, and the moon's new name an Endangered Site by World Monuments Fund.

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21:49

The Beesness #47

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/23

Hello Honeys!This week's edition of The Beesness, as always, features 20 minutes or less of arts news and events from around the world considered notable by your host. This edition we will be looking back at January 12--18 2024, with some of the top stories including a slew of new CEO announcements, the National Endowment for the Art's first awarded grants of 2025, and the divisive potential sale of a Chelsea building that has long housed galleries and artists alike.Enjoy the buzz!Source Doc:

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32:29

A Portrait of the Chicago Imagists

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/23

We're having a hometown moment, Honeys!This week's new drop will feature some of the least-publicly-known yet impactful postwar artists, and exhibiting groups they organized into. Expect to learn what made the Monster Roster so ghoulish, to hear about the Chicago institutions that inspired the artists to push back against the rules, and so much more.Join us as we uncover a hidden, Midwestern gem of an art historical moment!Source Doc:

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21:56

The Beesness #46

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/22

What a crazy year already, Honeys, but we've got you covered.This week, we tried to balance our in-depth coverage of the wildfires' effects on artists, and art institutions with coverage of new resources becoming available for both, along with a variety of other headlines.So you can also expect to hear a little about how UC Berkeley recently received $2.6M for a project to counter arts censorship, the discovery of a tomb of a pharaoh’s doctor and ‘magician’, and how an owner's surprising discovery

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27:58

2024 Winter Holiday Special

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/17

Happy winter holidays and happy New Years, Honeys!We're dropping one last episode this calendar year: a special featuring our favorite animated classics! We'll look at how Rudolph, Frosty, and others came to be, plus take a glance at the broader history of holiday film specials. Cozy up to your fireplaces, grab a hot cocoa, and let's begin!Source Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z2yAph2bUpKokQ1qCld4pEZIKXaCocGYSiVpRvd2_kE/edit?usp=sharing

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25:36

The Beesness #45

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/14

Welcome to the New Year... and welcome back to the Beesness!After a brief announcement describing the "what" and the "why" of the upcoming changes to our episode release schedule, your host dives right back into the good stuff. Your first hand-curated headlines of 2025 include, but certainly are not limited to: the opposition of a new David Zwirner Gallery deal by a Hilma af Klint descendant, the international appearance of protest and street art referencing Luigi Mangione, the debut of a rare

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21:23

The Beesness #44

Highbrow Honey ·

2025/01/03

Hello and happy holidays, Honeys!This week's headlines were packed full of fun and fascinating stories to round out your vacation time: updates on the new Notre Dame stained glass windows, an exciting arts therapy legislation push in NY, TWO artwork-recovery-centered headlines, and much more.Tune in today, and be sure to check back for our holiday special asap! But also be aware that we're taking our own holiday on New Year's and will be skipping our typical Tuesday Beesness release. We'll see you

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24:54

The Beesness #43

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/24

What a week, Honeys!We had all kinds of stories and many worth sharing in our weekly Beesness---which is why this one is a little longer, but we promise you'll find many stories to love. Our headlines included news of a major layoff at Sotheby's, accusations of gallery nonpayment coming from a dozen artists, a handful of follow-ups, and the end of an art museum-based strike.Source Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAuLHnrg0Y4DjWqohigqLJ5q5oq4VicMvO981eqsl00/edit?usp=sharing

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26:06

The Women's World Fair

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/24

Ah, the sights, the sounds, the tastes, of the World's Fair. Little has gone down in popular imagination like the fantastical experience of the turn-of-the-century exposition. And with the legacies of fairs like the 1893 Chicago Columbian Expo, the birthplace of the brownie AND the Ferris wheel, how could they not?Yet for all their fame, there's a lesser-known side to the story: the role of women within the fairs, and the first time women got to organize their own building at a world expo. This

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18:09

Personal Pinup #3

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/14

Surprise, Honeys! We've got a December bonus for you: a new Personal Pinup.In this special, I'll walk you through the stories behind and meanings of 5 pieces from my personally curated art wall, including a NYC institution's postcard, a bauble from Bourbon Street, and an artwork that reminds of childhood state park visits. Enjoy!

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19:41

What They Did Before

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/14

Not every great artist started out that way...Some started out as school teachers, another was a house painter, and yet a third found success as a pro gambler. In our new episode, we talk over the lesser- or un-known first jobs of some of art history's legends, one of whom worked on Wall Street. Join us in this exploration of the obscure,and often non-creative former careers held by artists like Barbara Kruger, Richard Serra, Keith Haring, and more.Source Doc:

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17:35

The Beesness #42

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/13

Welcome back Honeys! Our buzz for you this week, the most eye-catching headlines coming from the arts world last calendar week, include the following: the naming of a new Venice Biennale curator, a move by CalArts staff and faculty to unionize, and an out-of-this world announcement regarding a late woman sculptor.Enjoy, and remember to participate in our Holiday Prize contest on Instagram!Source Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KF7bssHih6iGLYfH6mirXLUSVIc4bpmwgGkpSLYlct4/edit?usp=sharing

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41:41

The Other Renaissance Guys

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/11

We all know a true jack of all trades--someone who seems to have had every job possible. Yet when it comes to artists, we often tend to think of them as exclusively artists. Our new episode, however, will uncover which artists were teachers, who was a house painter, and who wanted to make it big as a pro gambler. We'll talk about who worked on Wall Street, and who was a furniture mover, and some of the other obscure and often non-creative early careers of some of art history's legends.Source Doc:

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19:39

The Beesness #41

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/12/08

Beloved Stained Glass Window returns to the Wolfsonian in Miami BeachVenice Biennale Sees Second-Highest Turnout in Its History Potential New Biennale in formation by artistsCART Department and West Coast Customs unveil 'Art Car Series' at LA Auto ShowSource Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_guAvAdAys3doZhzXfJjId789Rx7jqUFVlSzCyBz3w/edit?usp=sharing

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39:21

Las Meninas & Court Painting

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/11/28

We've got another stand-alone analysis for you today, Honeys.Our work in question for the day is Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas of 1556. To get ourselves into the royal mindset, we're taking it back to 17th-century Spain and diving into the relationships between Diego Velazquez and the Spanish royal family. The painting itself will give us clues into the artist's role in their lives and his status at court in general, so expect to hear a bit about each character seen here. We will also going to look

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19:41

The Beesness #40

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/11/27

We've got your headlines here, Honeys!This week was another eventful one, and we hope you're ready for you 20-minutes-or-less rundown of all the best buzz it had to offer. Our stories this week include: the withdrawal of a film from the Oscars over "diplomatic pressures", Pompeii Archeological Park's new solution to overtourism, the sale of iconic fashion pieces inspired by Pop Art, and a labor strikes celebrity gets his own show.Source Doc:

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22:19

The Beesness #39

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/11/27

We're back at it again with the fresh new buzz, Honeys.This week we cover all of our usual categories--institutional and legal, sales and auctions, discoveries and announcements, and more--with your headline rundown. Be advised that since we've decided to end our Honeydrop series, our Beesness episodes are likely to be closer to 18 minutes long from here on out!For this week, at least, your headlines include: a mass sale of prints by photographers to aid humanitarian efforts in Lebanon, the

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32:14

Jargonology: The Terminal Breakdown

Highbrow Honey ·

2024/11/22

I know what you're thinking, Honeys-- a whole episode on art and art history terms?!We understand how this could sounds pretty dry, BUT the terms we have chosen for your today are just funky and therefore memorable, or effectively tricky enough in practice, to be worth talking about. ...And, tbh, I didn’t know and/or forgot what some of these are so it's a good review for all of us!We hope the terminal breakdown will help all the Honeys follow along in future episodes by taking an episode to explain

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