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Intelligence Squared: Arts & Culture
by Intelligence Squared
Welcome to Arts & Culture by Intelligence Squared. Here we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements and conversations that have shaped, and are still shaping, our world. In this podcast Intelligence Squared speaks to some of the world’s greatest orators, writers, actors and artists. Guests include Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Kate Winslet, Simon Schama, Tom Hiddleston and Marina Abromović. Join us every week as we feature the best of culture today and revisit some of the best live podcasts we have produced over the last twenty years. For more information head over to IntelligenceSquared.com
Episodes
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The Specialist | Yo, Picasso, with Samuel Valette
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, an early self portrait by an artist whose place within the modern canon needs no...
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The Specialist | Louise Bourgeois's Spider, with Katia Mindlin Leite-Barbosa
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the monumental arachnid that marked a record-setting moment for a sculpture by a…
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The Specialist | The Fabergé Imperial Coronation Egg and Coach, with Helen Culver Smith
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the coveted Fabergé egg whose interior reveals an intricate surprise. Helen Culver...
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The Specialist | The Coin Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold, with Selby Kiffer and David Tripp
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the extraordinary saga of the 1933 Double Eagle, America’s last gold coin; stolen,...
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The Specialist | From Canvas to Canon: Joan Mitchell’s King of Spades, with Courtney Kremers
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the female pioneer of abstract expressionism whose lyrical compositions came to reset...
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The Specialist | Frederic Edwin Church’s Lost Masterpiece, with Stefany Morris
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the story of Frederic Edwin Church’s elusive magnum opus, The Icebergs (The North)....
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The Specialist | When Photography Became Art, with Emily Bierman
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Emily Bierman, Sotheby's Global Head of Prints & Photographs, examines Edward...
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The Specialist | The Original Birkin, with Morgane Halimi
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Morgane Halimi takes us into the world of Jane Birkin and the birth of the iconic bag...
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The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Frank Everett, Sotheby's Vice Chairman, Jewelry Americas, discusses the string of…
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The Specialist | The Manet and The Auction Maestro, with Harry Rosebery
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the story of the Manet self-portrait at the heart of the Goldschmidt sale - a moment…
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The Specialist | Tiffany Windows: From Sanctuary to Spotlight, with Jodi Pollack
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today's episode: two Tiffany Studios windows, two recording-breaking sales, and the story of the...
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The Specialist | The Codex Sassoon: Jewel of the Judaica Library, with Sharon Liberman Mintz
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the Codex Sassoon, which set a historic record in 2023 as the most valuable…
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The Specialist | Oprah and Agnes Gund: Art for the Next Generation, with Charlotte Van Dercook
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, we acknowledge with great respect the recent passing of the visionary philanthropist,...
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The Specialist | The Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of the United States, with Selby Kiffer
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's Senior International Specialist of Books and Manuscripts…
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The Specialist | The Ostrich that François-Xavier Lalanne Hid in his Bedroom, with Florent Jeanniard
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Florent Jeanniard, Sotheby's Chairman, Co-Worldwide Head of Design, Paris, dives into...
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The Specialist | Collecting Time: The Market Life of a Patek Philippe, with Sam Hines
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the pivotal collector relationships that keep the market for rare watches ticking.…
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The Specialist | The Anonymous Altarpiece: Decoding a Renaissance Enigma, with Alex Bell
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, what happens when a work of art is so enigmatic that you think about it for 60 years?...
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The Specialist | The Contingency Lunar Sample Return Bag: An Apollo 11 Treasure, with Cassandra Hatton
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s Vice Chairman & Worldwide Head of Science and Natural...
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The Specialist | The Collector and the Ceramicist: Sydney Denton and Magdalene Odundo, with Julia Fischel
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. In today’s episode, Julia Fischel, Vice President, Head of Sale Sotheby's London, examines the…
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The Specialist | Virgil Abloh’s Reimagining of the Iconic Nike Air Force 1 for Louis Vuitton, with Brahm Wachter
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, an auction built overnight - Virgil Abloh’s reimagining of the iconic Nike Air Force…
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The Specialist | The Lost Seal of the Emperor Qianlong, with Nicolas Chow
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the spark that led Nicolas Chow, Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, and Head of Asian Art...
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The Specialist | The Secret Pendant of Marie Antoinette, with Andres White Correal
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the story of Marie Antoinette’s pearl and diamond pendant, told by Andres White...
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Sotheby’s Talks | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection: Klimt and the Art of Connoisseurship
On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collection of Leonard A. Lauder, one of the greatest collectors and benefactors of the arts in America. At its centre is Gustav Klimt's celebrated Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, alongside works by Henri Matisse,...
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The Lost Portrait of One of the Last Aztec Emperors, with Lulu de Creel
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today's episode, Lulu de Creel, Chairman, Sotheby’s Latin America, tells the extraordinary journey of…
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Sylvester Stallone's Patek Philippe, with Geoff Hess
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Global Head of Watches Geoff Hess gives us a behind the scenes look at the rare Patek...
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Princess Diana and the Black Sheep Jumper, with Morgane Halimi
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today's episode, Diana, Princess of Wales, and her iconic 'One Black Sheep' jumper. First worn to a...
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Deborah Devonshire’s Chickens and Four Eggs on a Plate, with Tom Eddison
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the story of Four Eggs on a Plate, a small but powerful painting by Lucian Freud....
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The Most Valuable Car in the World, with Gord Duff And Marcus Breitschwerdt
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On this episode, the extraordinary story of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé — a car so…
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The Specialist | The Art of Seeing: Two Brueghel Discoveries, with George Wachter
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today's episode, George Wachter, Sotheby's Americas Chairman, and Co-Chairman of Old Master Paintings Worldwide, takes us back over 50 years to the start of his career to tell the tale of the...
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The Specialist | The Forgotten Swaminathan Triptych, with Manjari Sihare-Sutin
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, how a paper brochure began a treasure hunt to authenticate a masterpiece of modern Indian art – Jagdish Swaminathan’s “Homage to Solzhenitsyn”. Manjari Sihare-Sutin, Head of...
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The Specialist | The Multi-Million Dollar Banana, with David Galperin
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian - an artwork that provoked scandal, sparked imagination, and upended the very definition of contemporary art. David Galperin, Sotheby’s Vice...
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The Specialist | S. Sudjojono and the Awakening of Indonesian Modern Art, Jasmine Prasetio
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, the emergence of a monumental painting by S. Sudjojono, long hidden in a private collection. Jasmine Prasetio, Managing Director of Sotheby's Southeast Asia, first…
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The Specialist | Fabergé’s Rediscovered Imperial Flower, with Helen Culver-Smith
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, the beauty of nature suspended for eternity. Helen Culver-Smith, Head of Decorative Arts Worldwide and Head of Fabergé and Russian works of Art, reveals how the digital...
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The Specialist | David's Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, with Benjamin Doller
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, how Benjamin Doller, Chairman of The Americas, reattributed ‘Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis’ to Jacques-Louis David. Long believed to have been painted by a student of...
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The Specialist | Bahman Mohassess’ Enduring Legacy, with Ashkan Baghestani
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today’s episode, Ashkan Baghestani, Head of Contemporary Art Day Sale in New York recounts his quest to trace and recontextualise the scattered corpus of artist Bahman Mohassess, and, in so...
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The Specialist | The Greatest Persian Manuscript: A Story Fit For Kings, with Benedict Carter
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. On today's episode, the legendary Shahnameh—the Persian Book of Kings—an epic poem composed of around 50,000 rhyming couplets that recounts the mythical and historical past of the Persian…
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From Orsay to Auction: The Turbulent Journey of Vollard’s Gauguin, with Aurélie Vandevoorde
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the tangled history of a Paul Gauguin still life…
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The Specialist | The Scream Heard Around the World, with Simon Shaw
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. More than a masterpiece, The Scream has become a cultural icon.…
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The Specialist | The Rise of Carrington and the Female Surrealists, with Julian Dawes
This is an episode of The Specialist, producing by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. When Les Distractions de Dagobert shattered records, it marked not...
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The Specialist | A Ten Year Vermeer Attribution Project, with Gregory Rubinstein
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Head of Old Master and Early British Drawings...
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The Specialist | Clyfford Still: The Mission to Establish a Museum, with Lisa Dennison
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. In a rare move, four paintings by Abstract Expressionist Clyfford…
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The Specialist | A Masterpiece by Kandinsky: A Story of Restitution, with Helena Newman
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, a remarkable restitution story involving the loss...
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The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. Rubens’ early masterpiece The Massacre of the Innocents was hidden…
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The Specialist | Jenny Saville and the Art of the Sale, with Ottilie Windsor
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the alchemy of industry experience, market...
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The Specialist | The Cabinet Detective of Urbino, with Mario Tavella
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. Commissioned by the Della Rovere family and separated across the...
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The Specialist | Beyond Black: Pierre Soulages’ Market Turning Point, with Grégoire Billault
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. Grégoire Billault’s personal relationship with Pierre Soulages…
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The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, the story of the Ming dynasty Chicken Cup, one of...
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The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. The shredding of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon live at auction in 2018…
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Sotheby's Talks | Shakespeare: A Man For All Time, with Tracy-Ann Oberman
On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's, exploring the world of Shakespeare. Sam Leith, author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator, will be joined by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford, Tracy-Ann Oberman, who most recently starred as Shylock…
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Sotheby's Talks – Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, with Kim Jones and Darren Clarke
In this episode, writer, academic and critic Frances Wilson is joined by Artistic Director of Dior Homme and Vice President of Charleston, Kim Jones, Dr Darren Clarke, Head of Collections, Research and Exhibitions at Charleston and Sotheby’s, and Jen Hardie, Director and Senior Specialist in…
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Welcome to Arts & Culture by Intelligence Squared. Here we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements and conversations that have shaped, and are still shaping, our world. In this podcast Intelligence Squared speaks to some of the world’s greatest orators, writers, actors and artists. Guests include Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Kate Winslet, Simon Schama, Tom Hiddleston and Marina Abromović. Join us every week as we feature the best of culture today and revisit some of the best live podcasts we have produced over the last twenty years.
For more information head over to IntelligenceSquared.com
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