Art Slice - A Palatable Serving of Art History

Art Slice - A Palatable Serving of Art History

Irreverent Deep Dives into Art & Art History - by artists and art historian Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker. No gatekeeping, privilege, or that cognitive fog called ‘art speaking.' Follow along with the images we discuss on our Youtube page, artslicepod.com, @artslicepod on Instagram. Get bonus content and support the show at http://www.patreon.com/artslicepod

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August 21, 2025 52 mins

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When the dazzling German actress Maria Lani arrived in Paris in the late 1920s, her presence set the art world abuzz. She quickly recruited over fifty artists—including Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso (he said no), Man Ray, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger, and Suzanne Valadon—to depict her in paintings, photogra...

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Mary Cassatt, known for her paintings of women and babies (then and now), made a surprising move to accept a mural commission for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.


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We highly recommend watching this one if possible as Violeta Parra’s works are so breathtaking and impactful:

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We’re back with the 2nd dose of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE series, featuring the myster...

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Our SCARY releases continue . . . well, RE-RUN in this case. 

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In celebration of our new 2025 Creature Double Feature episodes, we went back to the vault and added VISUALS to our Creature Feature episode with Japanese printmaker Hokusai (1760-1849) and Celtic Spook School alum Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933) and their terrifying contributions to spooky art history.<...

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We are back with another edition of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE where we discuss TWO diff...

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Listeners, we are excited to share a very special interview with Orna Tsultem, curator and art historian of Mongolian art, where we dive into the origins of Mongol Zurag, the art of resistance.

We cover A LOT of images in this one so we highly recommend watching when you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QchXwHybmfk&ab_channel=ArtSlicePod

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We present a very special bonus interview with Emily A. Beeny, Chief Curator at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco about the Mary Cassatt At Work exhibition.


Since her day, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) has been known for her paintings of bébés and upper class women but there’s another layer - a radical one - that has been overlooked until now.


Join us as we discu...

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This time getting lost in the weird and wonderful world of painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s early works (Part 1) that feature wonky landscapes populated by dream logic, lumpy babies, curvaceous women, angular farm a...

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and diving into the origins of La Catrina, the quintessential skelicon of Day of the Dead. Over the past 100ish years, her image has transcended borders, becoming synonymous with sugar skulls, Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe and e...

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Jack Shoulder and Mark Small of Museum Bums fame take us on a curvy tour of Art Historical Gluteal Clefts!


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Topics include counting museum rumps, apotropaic blessings from Goddesses heinies, Kappa Yokai looking for soul spheres in your rear…


We’re all still stumped about what was up with Hieronymus Bosch’s… erhm… interest in butts.  


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In this Purple Bonus episode, we break down some weird decorative object history with Ben Miller from Curious Object podcast. We get into a Japanese inspired Tiffany and Co. Chocolate Pot from 1876 made of mixed materials including ivory and silver featuring cabbage leaf and lobster motifs.


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For its SEVENTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you the extra-spectral, enigmatic (and sometimes controversial) PURPLE - and we have artist, illustrator, animator and (duncle) Caldwell Tanner of Not Another DnD Podcast (NaddPod), Drawfee, Big City Greens - on deck to help sort it out.


Is i...

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We are so excited to share a new series from our Canadian podcast friends Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North


A series about a group of artists known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation (PNIAI) or as they were dubbed by the press: the Indigenous Group of Seven.


This was significant because the most famous Euro-Canadian painters then were known as the Group of Seven which put...

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For its SIXTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you our most controversial color so far. . . PINK (!!!) 

Is this color just a light red? Or is the extra-spectral tone of our… life… energy…?

We dig through the history, characteristics, and your color associations with, artist, curator, activist - and ...

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October 31, 2023 38 mins

Today we have a lil spooky BONE-US - chat with Rumwolf - a multi-disciplinary installation artist, - his work often includes combinations of animation, film, painting, printmaking, and sculpture whose works are inspired by horror and general spookiness ~


BUT also he’s a musician and visual production specialist…as well as a Hallo-Event-Creator.


We get into his non-traditional path to art making...

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September 29, 2023 112 mins

Listeners, we present to you… the FULLY UNLOCKED… Great Surrealist Paint Off!  Formerly a Patreon bonus episode from last December (since we are running a bit behind on our next release)


We cover the 1947 International Bel Ami Surrealist Art Competition featuring famous and lesser known artists to have their work featured in a Hollywood picture.


We HIGHLY recommend following along on YouTube be...

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We are back (!) picking up where we left off with Francisco de Goya in PART ONE as we finally discuss Los Caprichos, but not before diving into the revelatory hidden imagery in La familia de Carlos IV, and Goya's infamous witch series: Witches' Flight, The Spell, Witches' Sabbath, The Witches' Kitchen, and The Bewitched Man / Devil's Lamp.

We also address the myth that Goya went ...

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We got to sit down with artist, writer & choreographer Matty Davis for our first ever in-studio interview to get all the details of Die No Die (Arkansas) including how much Arkansas history and landscape, particularly around The Momentary, inspired the work.

We also discuss how he went from building treehouses and skate rails in the suburbs, to creating performance art and experimental publications.

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While we wrap up our series on Goya's Los Capricho's enjoy this dive into the tumultuous history of the Majos / Majas - which is filled with secretive Duchess, working class riots, street style, lacy mantillas, and goo... yes goo...

Including Goya's infamous Maja Desnuda & Maja Vestida portraits.


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