Episode 17: The Color That Corrupts

There's a lot of white in nature. It's just a thing, a color, the by-product of calcium. But alas, it just also had to be associated with Ancient Rome and purity, and we've never recovered. Your host will never learn.  This week, we watched BBC Four's "The History of Art in Three Colors" series, watching the "White" episode for our Movie Night....... And Booooy Howdy. To no one's surprise, the art world is genuinely appalling when you get into the nitty gritty of colorism.  Find out how you can gay your way into a dream job at the Vatican, Stephanie's defensive stance of the Pre-Raphealite Brotherhood, why the 20th century had the Modernist movement, and why the White Room is more menacing than you can possibly imagine.

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Our music was written and recorded by Elene Kadagidze.

Our cover art was designed by Lindsey Anton-Wood.

List of Public Sources:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrsM5Pul34

• https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-white-cube-dominate-art

• https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/septemberoctober/feature/how-did-james-mcneill-whistler-create-his-distinctive-brand

• https://hyperallergic.com/221158/revisiting-le-corbusier-as-a-fascist/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_della_Civiltà_Italiana

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble

• http://curioartadventures.blogspot.com/2013/02/white-art-historys-dirty-little-secret.html

• https://arthistoryunstuffed.com/white-art/

• http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-artistry-behind-an-all-white-painting.html

• https://www.textielmuseum.nl/en/tentoonstellingen/black-white/

• http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/whites.html

• https://www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-a-brief-history-of-color-in-art

• https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/the-use-of-the-color-white-in-art/RwLy9L3aSr6qIQ

• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-so-many-fascist-monuments-still-standing-in-italy

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scholars-uncover-secret-message-mussolini-180960312/