A Long Look Podcast

About A Long Look Podcast

Ever feel overwhelmed when you visit a museum? Discover a better way to connect with art! Join lifelong art lover and museum fan Karen Jackson as she shares in vivid detail what she sees and discovers when she slows down to look at a work of art for minutes instead of seconds. Then you'll find out the history, mystery or controversy behind the work or the artist! Monthly episodes are only about 10 minutes. The show is for all art lovers—from beginners to longtime fans and the visually impaired. No jargon, just an easy-going, sometimes irreverent look at works in Washington DC's world-class museums. Slow down, see more, avoid the overwhelm!

Publisher

Karen Jackson

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Dec 2017

Latest episode

17 May 2025

Latest episodes

102 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 May 2025

   The Bedroom by Pieter de Hooch

   Well, here we are my friends, the 100th and final episode! We go back to where it all started, the National Gallery of Art, for a look at one of Pieter de Hooch’s idealized depictions of what a Dutch household was supposed to be. This cozy home may have been more wishful thinking than reality, though! We’ll find out how an embarrassing meeting helped create the Gallery! And I’ll share final thoughts and thank yous and a few podcast recommendations I think you’ll really like (listed below). If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery’s site SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 - Prelude No. 19 in A major, BWV 864” composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43466-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-bwv-846-869 “Hand in Space” by Quantum Jazz https://archive.org/details/jamendo-046377 Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1172-bedroom https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/online-editions/dutch-paintings-seventeenth-century-bedroom-16581660 Pieter de Hooch information “Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684” by Peter C. Sutton (Archive.org) https://archive.org/details/pieterdehooch16200sutt https://www.theartstory.org/artist/de-hooch-pieter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_de_Hooch “Public and Private Life in the Art of Pieter de Hooch” by Martha Hollander (JSTOR) Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 51 (2000): 272–93. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24706499 Women in Dutch life “The Embarrassment of Riches” by Simon Schama (Bookshop.org) Gallery history https://www.nga.gov/about-us/our-history https://www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-gallery-of-art “America’s National Gallery of Art” by Philip Kopper (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/americasnational0000kopp/americasnational0000kopp Jazz in the Garden https://www.nga.gov/calendar/jazz-garden “The Mill” by Rembrandt https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1201-mill The Object Podcast--Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/the-object-podcast The Modern Art Notes Podcast https://manpodcast.com (https://manpodcast.com/) Tyler Greene presents in-depth discussions with artists about their practice and curators about current shows for a fascinating look at today’s art world. Immaterial https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/series/immaterial-podcast The Metropolitan of Art’s limited series podcast tells us surprising stories about the stuff art is made from. Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/bedroom-de-hooch

2. 

   25 Apr 2025

   Beach at St. Malo by Maurice Prendergast

   When critics hinted Maurice Prendergast was getting a little repetitive as he approached 50, he could’ve hung up his brushes. After all, he’d been pretty successful. Instead, he headed back to where it all began--Paris--and came away reinvigorated with “a new impulse,” as he called it. Today’s episode takes us to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. We’ll find out how an idea that started with Congress just before the Depression led to an official modern art museum on the National Mall! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music “Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - IX. King of the Hobbyhorse” by Robert Schumman Performed by Donald Betts. “Children's Corner, L. 113 - III. Serenade of the doll” by Claude Debussy Performed by Edward Rosser Both courtesy of musopen.org “Loopster” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Artwork information Beach at Saint-Malo https://iiif.si.edu/mirador/?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fmanifest%2FHMSG-HMSG-66.4131 (mirador zoom-in view) https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.4131 Prendergast info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/prendergast-maurice/ https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5270.html Maurice Prendergast. Wattenmaker, Richard J, and National Museum of American Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994. https://archive.org/details/mauriceprenderga0000watt/page/n5/mode/2up Maurice Prendergast : By the Sea. Homann, Joachim. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin college Museum of Art, 2013. “The Early Art Education of Maurice Prendergast.” Glavin, Ellen. Archives of American Art Journal 33, no. 1 (1993): 2–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557569 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557569). (JSTOR) Hirshhorn info https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-founding-donor/ https://hirshhorn.si.edu/about-us/ https://siarchives.si.edu/history/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden : The Collection. Brunet, Briana Feston, and Romare Bearden. Edited by Stéphane Aquin, Anne Reeve, and Sandy Guttman. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022. Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/saint-malo/

3. 

   22 Mar 2025

   Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir

   So much better than Instagram! Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited 14 friends to lunch one summer--several lunches actually--and ended up creating this spectacular work of art. In today’s episode we find out about this happy group and that beautiful riverside restaurant they’re clearly enjoying. And I’ll tell you a pretty funny story about how Duncan Phillips was able to get this stunner for his new modern art museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music “Parisian” by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) From Blue Dot Sessions: “Via Verre” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306837 “Symphony 40 In G Minor” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306840 “Etude 9 Stefan” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306841 Artwork information https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/luncheon-boating-party https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2017-10-06-renoir-and-friends-luncheon-boating-party “The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A collection in the making” by Duncan Philips and David W. Scott. 1999. Edited by Erika D. Passantino. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection in association with Yale University New Haven. Sitters identified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party Holston papers William H. Holston papers, 1915-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Reel D-169 #1029-31 “Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Susan Vreeland https://bookshop.org/p/books/luncheon-of-the-boating-party-susan-vreeland/11716075?ean=9780143113522&next=t Maison Fournaise https://www.maisonfournaise.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Fournaise Caillebotte episode https://alonglookpodcast.com/08-skiffs-caillebotte Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/boatingparty/

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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Engagement

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