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In 2008, Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping broke a world record for the most expensive painting sold by a living artist. While this sale turned Freud into a household name, the woman featured in Freud’s painting has been unjustly overlooked as an integral part of what makes the work so remarkable.

In this ArtMuse episode, we give Sue her rightful dues in our appreciation of Freud’s famed work. But Sue has lived a robust and adventure-filled life outside of her role as Lucian Freud’s model. Though a benefits supervisor by day, Sue was a club girl by night, and could be found in London’s most notorious nightclubs of the 1980’s, alongside icons like Boy George, and was at the heart of London’s New Romantic movement.

The time is far overdue for Sue’s riveting life story to be shared, and for us to be lucky enough to experience a small fraction of the magic that is Sue Tilley.

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Today’s episode was written by me, your host, Grace Anna.

I have included images, resources and suggestions for further reading on the ArtMuse website and Instagram.

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.

ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

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Today’s episode was written by me, your host, Grace Anna.

I have included images, resources and suggestions for further reading on the ArtMuse website and Instagram.

Behind every great man, is an even greater woman, and this sentiment couldn’t be more true than in the case of Salvador Dali. Hidden in the shadows of Dali’s massive legacy, is the woman who can be credited with making Dali a household name and one of the strongest forces of nature to ever walk this earth.

Gala was the the wife and companion of Salvador Dali for over 50 years, who not only inspired Dali’s greatest works (many of which feature her image), but managed Dali’s entire career, brokering his biggest deals and elevating him from an unknown and impoverished young artist to celebrity status.

Listen to Part One of Gala's story.

ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

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Today’s episode was written by me, your host, Grace Anna.

I have included images, resources and suggestions for further reading on the ArtMuse website and Instagram.

While Whistler's Mother has continued to captivate the imagination of viewers through the centuries, the name and story of Whistler’s real mother has been wrongfully overlooked.

Who was Whistler’s mother? And how would she have liked to be remembered?

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Anna McNeill Whistler, not only the mother of James McNeill Whistler, but also his artistic manager and agent. One may judge by her portrait that Anna was a stern woman who lived a simple life, but doing so would be a great injustice, for Anna was a far from ordinary woman, who lived a far from simple life.

She was Whistler’s mother, but she was also so much more.

ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

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Today’s episode was written by me, your host, Grace Anna.

I have included images, resources and suggestions for further reading on the ArtMuse website and Instagram.

In Part One we explored Madame de Pompadour's beginnings, the fortune teller’s prophecy that she would one day become the King’s mistress, and the magical start of her romance with the King.
In Part Two we explore Madame de Pompadour's patronage of the arts, the many wondrous portraits of her by Boucher, and her eventual rise from mistress to political advisor, taking charge of France's domestic and foreign affairs.

In this episode, we honor Madame de Pompadour's immense legacy. She not only fulfilled her impossible destiny by becoming the first woman of middle class origins to become the King’s mistress, she then worked her way up the royal court until she was the most powerful woman in all of France.

ArtMuse is produced by Kula Production Company.

Today’s episode was written by me, your host, Grace Anna.

I have included images, resources and suggestions for further reading on the ArtMuse website and Instagram.