ArtCurious Podcast

Jennifer Dasal has a gift for making art history feel like a thriller. ArtCurious takes the weird, scandalous, and mysterious corners of the art world and turns them into stories you genuinely cannot stop listening to. Over 227 episodes, she has covered everything from the volatile relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to the surreal world of Leonora Carrington, plus deep-dives into Marina Abramovic's performances and lesser-known women artists who got written out of the textbooks. Episodes run a tight 20 to 30 minutes for the narrative ones, stretching to 40 minutes when she interviews authors about their new art books. That shorter format is a big part of what makes the show work -- Jennifer packs in genuine research and surprising details without ever dragging. Her most recent project includes a book called "The Club" about American women artists in Belle Epoque Paris, and the podcast episodes exploring those same themes are some of her best. She also does virtual gallery tours of places like Mexico City's art museums, which is a nice change of pace from the usual format. Rated 4.8 stars from over 800 reviews. If you love visual art but find most art history content dry or overly academic, ArtCurious is the antidote. Jennifer treats the subject with real scholarly rigor while making it genuinely entertaining -- a combination that is harder to pull off than it sounds.