Episode 69: John Singer Sargent, or How to Paint Velvet So Hard It Files a Tax Return
He painted velvet, scandal, status, and side-eye so well that society needed a fainting couch…
Artist Series
Episode 65: Odilon Redon, or How to Paint a Floating Eyeball and Still Look Deeply Spiritual
A floating eye, haunted flowers, and one of art history’s dreamiest weirdos walk into a Symbolist garden and then…
Episode 64: Gustave Moreau, or How to Paint a Mythological Fever Dream and Still Look Academically Respectable
Gustave Moreau painted myths like jeweled fever dreams, and the results are stranger, richer, and shinier than expected…
How I Did the Impossible and Built a 53-Episode Artist Series Table of Contents for a Site That Clearly Did Not Want Me To
Fifty-three artist episodes, one impossible table of contents, and the gloriously ridiculous detective story required to build it.