Episode 12: Halloween is an Herb

Episode 14: MuseNews: Crystal Clear

Oh boy oh boy oh boy we just had so much discuss that we gathered for a very special bonus musenews and pop-culture and vacation roundup episode.  At 0:48 - We kick things of with the series Lupin At 12:55 - Get a little romantic with the film Red, White, and Royal Blue based on the novel with the same title by Casey McQuiston. At 19:15 there's a little snippet of the AMC series Interview with a Vampire. At 26:30 we have some magical environmental controls in the series Shadow and Bone and the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo. 29:58 is a rapid-fire mismatch of a quote from the podcast Your Wrong About, The Haunted Mansion (2023), the series Moonnight, the series What We Do in the Shadows, and back on over to Your Wrong About for a discussion of chastity belts. Then at 37:00 it's time for an update of the Orlando Museum of Art/Basquiat saga with a discussion of the article published in ArtNews "the Orlando Museum of Art Has Sued Its Former Director for Staging a Show of Fake Basquiats That "Shattered" Its Reputation" by Sarah Cascone, August 17, 2023 At 44:35 Madeline takes us on a delightful trip to The Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin and we get her hot take on the Book of Kells. It was a trip fit for a museum registrar as the library was preparing for an upcoming restoration project. At 51:37 we finish with a discussion of the taxidermy collection at the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls, S.D. For more background, see "Arsenic Preserved the Animals, but Killed the Museum' by Katrina Miller, September 23, 2023, The New York Times.

Episode 13: Never Mind, I'm Confident Now

Wouldn't you believe, these three ladies couldn't go this long without talking about Jurassic Park. Not only that, we're covering all things Paleontology. And yes, that does include dino poop thank you very much. Pop on your 'I love Sue' sweatshirt and get ready to get dusty. From Mary Anning and Barnum Brown to McDonalds-sponsored exhibitions, we've got one monstrous lizard of an episode.

Episode 12: Halloween is an Herb

It's time for our 2nd Annual Halloween Spooktacular! Cozy up with your favorite adaptogen for uncanny sculptures, haunted pub crawls, and books bound in human skin.

Episode 11: Fashion in the Museum Workplace

Come one, come all to a feast of jobs and roles in the museum. We're talking security guards, registrars, curators, event planners - the works. And of course, we're talking about what everyone is wearing.

Episode 10: 31 Red Flags

Gather your red flags and your forgery kit because this week, we've diving into one of the biggest art fraud cases of the century. It's story time with "Provenance How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art" by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. Grab a glass of red and put on your detective cap as we explore the thrilling tale of John Drewe and John Myatt.