The Art History Babes

The Art History Babes


Latest Episodes

Death Portraiture
October 24, 2020

Victorian era death portraits are an infamously creepy, yet beautiful means of memorializing the deceased.

Talking ‘The Honest Art Dictionary’
October 12, 2020

The babes gather via zoom to talk about our recently released book: The Honest Art Dictionary: A Jovial Trip Through Art Jargon.

More Haunted Art with Happy Harvest Horror Show
October 08, 2020

Crossover Episode! Ginny, Nat, Corrie, and Brian join forces on a full moon to discuss a hodgepodge of various haunted/cursed works of art.

welcome to the art history experience
October 02, 2020

let's hang out!

Art History BB: Rubens Paints Marie de' Medici
September 24, 2020

Gin and Nat discuss the cycle of paintings that Marie de' Medici had commissioned by Peter Paul Rubens to represent momentous events in her life.

Yellow: The Grooviest Color
September 09, 2020

Saffron, sexy forbidden books, a song by Coldplay, bovine urine, emoji culture - join the AHB to find out all the reasons why yellow is historically the ~grooviest~ color.

Writing Anti-racist Histories with Blair Imani
August 21, 2020

Nat and Corrie speak with amazing historian, author, and activist, Blair Imani.

Decolonize the Art World with Yaa Addae
August 04, 2020

A powerful, wonderful, full moon-charged conversation with writer, artist, curator, and organizer of the platform @decolonizetheartworld, Yaa Addae about overhaul of the global art industry, the absolute necessity of imagining anti-colonial possibilities,

Historic Hospitals with Isabelle Kent Part 2
May 06, 2020

Part 2! Nat speaks again with London-based art historian Isabelle Kent, this time about the Isenheim Altarpiece.

Historic Hospitals with Isabelle Kent Part 1
April 22, 2020

Nat speaks with London-based art historian Isabelle Kent about the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville, Spain.