7 podcasts to take your eyes with your ears

February 04, 2023

1. Four dazzling stories for children

Very successful second season for the podcast created by the Art Explora foundation of Frédéric Jousset (also owner of Beaux Arts & Cie) and Lacmé, in partnership with the MuMo (Musée Mobile) x Center Pompidou. Inspired by works by Amédée Ozenfant, Ossip Zadkine, Florence Henri and Thomas Ruff presented in the traveling exhibition “Lumières”, four fictions for young audiences (from 5 years old) have been imagined by the writers Blandine Rinkel, Arthur Dreyfus, Kaouther Adimi and Hugo Lindenberg. Told by residents of the Comédie-Française, these stories are the perfect union between literature, theater, painting, sculpture and modern and contemporary photography. All done brilliantly! CU

And there was light !

By Art Explora and Lacmé

4 episodes • Approximately 10 min.

2. Games and art

The Olympic Games are fast approaching and Paris Musées (which brings together the capital’s municipal museums) is already in the pipeline. starting blocks ! Proof of this is with Paris Musées Olympique. Rugby at the Museum of Modern Art, cycling at the Petit Palais, horse riding at the Museum of Romantic Life: 12 mini-fictions, produced with the Nuit Noire studio, explore the Olympic disciplines in the light of the collections of the museums of the City of Paris… Perfect for warming up! IB

Paris Olympic Museums

By Paris Museums

12 episodes • Approximately 10 min.

3. Art history as a passion fruit

The first two seasons had already convinced us of this: research in art history is captivating (and accessible to everyone!) when told with passion. Podcast produced by the National Institute of Art History (INHA) in partnership with Beaux Arts Magazine, “Research at work” returns with six new episodes and always the same recipe: after a short introduction plunging us at the heart of the matter, Anne-Cécile Genre holds out her microphone to the researchers. On the program, an Egyptologist tries to unravel the mysteries of the bulls buried in the serapeum (necropolis of the Egyptian god Apis) of Saqqara, a medievalist scrutinizes the image of the Three Kings, a specialist in Chinese ceramics tells us a story of industrial espionage in the 19th centurye century… Special mention for the episode centered on the work of Séverine Sofio: the sociologist, who notably advised Céline Sciamma for her film Portrait of the girl on fire (2019), retraces the astonishing “enchanted parenthesis” (1780–1830) which saw the exceptional rise of women artists in a society more favorable to their recognition. Thrilling. FG

Research in action

By Anne-Cécile Genre

6 episodes • Approximately 25 min.

production INHA in partnership with Beaux Arts Magazine

4. When artists go green

Until spring, the Grenoble museum is presenting the “De la nature” exhibition, a vast reflection on man and his environment orchestrated by four great names in contemporary art: Philippe Cognée, Cristina Iglesias, Wolfgang Laib and Giuseppe Penone. The museum also gives them the floor in a podcast, thus offering an immersion in the heart of creation and nature… Ideal to extend the visit! IB

4 episodes • Approximately 10 min.

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5. Urban artists on tap

Street artists unveil themselves at the microphone of Laura Barbaray, producer and director of “Urban Art Podcast”. In this series, which already has more than 10,000 plays to date, artists of all ages and all nationalities talk about their journey, their influences, and above all testify to a significant experience abroad. Among the twenty episodes, the committed artist Kashink tells us about his adventures in Bangkok, the duo Noty Aroz explains why he went in search of esoteric symbols in Domicella, near Naples, and Lek & Sowat return to their residence at the Villa Medici in Rome, where they were the very first, in 2015, to introduce and represent the art of graffiti. CU

By Laura Barbaray

20 episodes • Approximately 20 min.

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6. How is contemporary art born?

The Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection launched last fall its second season of the podcast “It started like that”, which gives voice to a number of contemporary artists. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Rudolf Stingel, Pierre Huyghe, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober or even Tacita Dean evoke their journey and the genesis of their works. After Charlotte Le Bon, it’s actor Panayotis Pascot’s turn to tell us these unique stories. An immersive podcast that can be listened to from start to finish. CU

It started like this

By the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection

6 episodes • Approximately 15 minutes long • One episode broadcast every three weeks since October 28

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7. Versailles in wartime

Last September, the Palace of Versailles unveiled a web-series entitled “Occupied Versailles”, plunging the visitor into the little-known history of the palace during the Second World War, from the pre-war preparations to the reopening of the premises in 1946. A success crowned with more than 200,000 views, which the institution intends to renew with two new podcasts that brilliantly combine storytelling, interviews and sound archives. The first thus makes us relive “the battle of memories” around the Hall of Mirrors, which, during the conflict, catalyzed the Franco-German rivalry. As for the second, it looks back on the first hours of the war, when the castle protected itself, sheltering its collections. Panting! IB

2 new episodes • Approximately 30 min.

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