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Listen to Part Two of ArtMuse’s episode on Audrey Munson, America’s first supermodel, who not only modeled for countless important sculptures in New York City, but all across the United States.

Sadly, Audrey Munson is perhaps America’s first example of the cruel rise and fall of celebrity status. By the early 1920’s, Audrey’s life was filled with continuous challenges and tragedies.

Today her face, forever immortalized in bronze, stone, and copper throughout New York City, stares back at us, like a ghost from a haunted past.

In this episode, we bring her life and legacy the justice she deserves.

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Today’s episode was written by host Grace Anna.

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In Part One we explored Gala’s childhood, how she met her first husband Paul Eluard and traveled alone through Europe in the midst of World War I to be with him, their marriage and later menage-a-trois relationship with Max Ernst, and finally the fateful meeting of Gala and Dali.

Part Two picks back up on Gala's story and honors Gala's complex legacy. Whether critical of Gala’s behavior or not, one cannot deny that she was a force to be reckoned with. Gala knew the life she wanted to live, and was unwilling to let her size, gender, two world wars, and any force opposing her, get in her way.

Listen to Part Two of Gala's story.

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Listen to Part Two of ArtMuse's episode on Lisa Gherardini, aka the Mona Lisa.
In Part One, we were introduced to Lisa’s story: her challenging upbringing, her marriage that defied all odds, and the fortuitous and mysterious circumstances that led to Leonardo’s creation of Lisa’s portrait.

In Part Two, we continue Lisa’s story, and together examine the Mona Lisa from a new perspective: through the eyes of Lisa Gherardini herself.

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ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

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Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Fillide Melandroni. Fillide was the most consistent model that Caravaggio ever used and became an important figure in his life. She could pose as Saint Catherine one day and Judith the next, but Fillide herself was just as fierce as the biblical heroines she modeled as; a fearlessly confident prostitute with a crooked hand and gaze that could pierce as sharply as a sword.
Fillide’s appearance in Caravaggio’s works coincided with the launch of the style he is best known for: the dark and violent scenes painted with such bravado that they continue to shock viewers today. Fillide’s spirited presence in these works was just as responsible for the development of Caravaggio’s matured artistic voice as Caravaggio himself and her role in informing his artistic practice deserves recognition.

Her story includes romance, violence, murder, and exile, but most of all, it is the story of an independent woman who was able to climb the ranks of Rome’s social world and work her way from poverty to luxury, through her own hard work and personal drive.

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Today’s episode was written by host Grace Anna.

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Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World is one of the most iconic paintings in the history of American art. It was Christina’s World that turned Andrew Wyeth into a household name and claimed him one of the best American realist painters.

But who was Christina? And what kind of world did she live in?

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Anna Christina Olson and the world she lived out her noble life in; the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. As a young child, Christina showed signs of an undiagnosed degenerative disease that slowly took away her mobility. While this presented unimaginable challenges, Christina never let her disability stop her from living a robust life nor compromise her unparalleled dignity and strength.

Christina’s story deserves to be honored in its entirety, beyond Wyeth and the painting that turned her into an icon. Christina was a remarkable woman in her own right, who showed extraordinary resilience in the face of continued challenges.

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ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

Today’s episode was written by host Grace Anna.

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