It gives life to these artist, some of who lived many years ago. Art doesn’t have to be boring and these stories have inspired me to visit the museums more. Especially now that I know some of the back stories.
I love your podcast and have re-listened to every episode many times! I spend a lot of time on the roads traveling and I am anxiously and hopefully awaiting anything new from you!
ArtHoles is both informative and hilarious. Originally I was looking for 20 minute introduction to Jackson Pollock. I stumbled upon ArtHoles and ended up listening to eight or nine hour long segments. Thanks for teaching me so much and keeping a big smile on my face!
Irreverent, hilarious, sensitive and informative, as an established student of art history and an artist, I find Anthony’s perspective refreshing and important. He should be paid millions of dollars to make podcasts “for the rest of us” who may be put off by all the snobby academic lingo and who don’t realize how significantly art has formed our culture and continues to.
Excellent storytelling, super funny, wonderful art descriptions and deep-dives. A total must listen for fans of history and art! The Caravaggio series is excellent! Please do episodes on Artemisia Gentileschi. She is SO worthy of long form and exquisite storytelling.
Ok I love this podcast I found it only yesterday and am already 7 episodes deep. I love art history but it does get so dry sometimes in the way it’s usually taught (like most history, actually) but the blend of comedy, educating and great storytelling in this really makes for the perfect delivery.
The immaculate conception does not refer to the conception of Jesus, it is actually the conception of Mary when her mother Anne became pregnant with her. Listening to Caravaggio series. New listener great pod but that fact is my pet peeve
Absolutely best podcast. Super well researched and informative about each artist and the context of their time and life informing their art pieces. Also the stories are kind of bonkers that really show that artists were just really talented but messy people.
I’m an art history major and my friend recommended this to me and wow I love it. Helps with the mundane chores of college life and freaking out my roommates as I randomly start bursting into laughter! Such interesting characters and even after I finish a series I can’t stop thinking about their lives, especially Mario Minniti (love and miss him)
The Frida series is ~life changing. The research! The vulnerability! The humor! So good. From a painter with many hours of ear time, a heartfelt thank you.
So I’m leaving this review because my neighbor is bugging me for a year to listen to this and after listening to the first episode I am now within a week 20 episodes deep, really good stuff. brilliant, engaging. Really well done
I found this podcast in late 2023. I’m consuming the final two episodes made in 2022 as slowly as possible, because I don’t want it all to end. This art history is so thorough and well told, the mispronounced words didn’t even drive me away. I’m hoping the final podcast will have a clue for where I can find more.
—Okay, I have listened to the second-to-last podcast. It’s 6 hours long, and now I understand the podcast needs to find a way to exist without commercials. I’m now a patreon subscriber, and I’ll be donating through PayPal. It may be too late to get more of this obsessive comedian’s telling of art history. A year has passed with no new episodes, so this project may be done. I am grateful to have gotten what is already here. I want more, but the world doesn’t work like that. Thanks, Michael Anthony, for sharing the fruit of your compulsive curiosity.
I cannot begin to explain how much I love this podcast! Michael Anthony has a real talent for storytelling and he definitely knows how to find fascinating stories worth telling. If you love deep dives and rabbit holes, this is the podcast for you!
This podcast is a National Treasure! Informed and informative in spite of Michael Anthony’s claims that he is unqualified. He did his research and mine and possibly yours as well. Where is Michael now? We need him more than ever.
This show is witty, entertaining, and factual. I deeply enjoy it as an undergraduate art history student! I appreciate the balance of content and humor!
I love this podcast so much. I’ve listened to Toulouse Letrec, Pollock, and Caravaggio. Michael has become my favorite storyteller. Perfect mix of curiosity, humility, humor, sensitivity, irreverence, cool disasters of stories, art history, actual history, and the sense we are going through it together with Michael.
Just give it a try and you’ll either get hooked like I did or you won’t. Visual artists are a weird breed (I speak from experience). This podcast tells the how’s and why’s in beautiful detail.
When will there be more episodes?! What happened? I signed up for Patreon, and there has been nothing new in months. What happened?! We want answers!!!!!!! This was one of the best podcasts I have listened to.
If you appreciate art even just a little and like to laugh from time to time, take a listen! I’m enjoying this podcast sooo much, the host is fantastic with his words and all of the small extra humorous clips he adds in is authentically enjoyable. I’ve learned so much, I don’t want it to end so thank you for making it.
This guy has a gift for bringing humor, depth and insight to the most famous artists ever . I have two degrees in art history and have learned SO much from him!
Nothing can really consistently hold my interest enough to stick with it except for true crime podcasts, BUT THIS ONE DOES! Funny, interesting, and pretty informative for someone that doesn’t have an art history background. I am hooked. p.s. he captures my thoughts on mannerism perfectly.
I’m another reviewer with a degree in studio arts and art history. This podcast has me utterly transfixed. The humor and humility with which the stories are shared, the incredible deep dives and research around each artist is an absolute phenomena. This is greatness, and now I’m truly aware of how terrible my art and history education have been, so thank you for the lessons. When I’m done, I plan to go back and listen again..
Since I’ve found out about Art Holes - this is pretty much all I’ve listened too. It’s thoughtful, hilarious, moving, informative and just absolutely incredible.
Podcasts were just a form of pastime in my daily commute before I encountered Artholes. While listening to Artholes I laughed, I cried, I learned, and I definitely felt like I was so close to the host, I could call him up to grab a beer after work to continue the conversation.
Michael Anthony explains art history in such a tangible manner, that makes the subject seem approachable and attainable, differently from other art history podcasts, where I as the listener feel talked down to, and as if I am not sophisticated enough to fully understand. I’d argue that Michael Anthony is the Anthony Bourdain of art history.
I studied art in school and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts.
I took a _lot_ of art history courses, as you’d imagine. This podcast does a better job of bringing art, artists, their times, and the cultural context that made them relevant into a cohesive narrative than any of my art history classes.
Also, my dog’s name is Jonah. He’s ridiculously smart poodle with a refined palette. He’s my avant garde dog.
I love this show so much. The narrator researches these artists and the history surrounding them to an unbelievable degree then manages to present it with so much humor, intrigue, and expert story telling.
You don’t have to be an artist or art intellectual to enjoy this podcast. It’s great for everyone (but lots of cussing so maybe not the little ones)
