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Priceless
- How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
- Written by: Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a...
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- By Stewart Fletcher on 2019-07-03
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Priceless
- How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2010-06-01
- Language: English
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Basquiat
- A Quick Killing in Art
- Written by: Phoebe Hoban
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times Notable Book “A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village Voice A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In less than...
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Basquiat
- A Quick Killing in Art
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-25
- Language: English
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Threads of Empire
- A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
- Written by: Dorothy Armstrong
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans, and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritual realm. The world's 1% hunger after them as displays of extreme status.
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Threads of Empire
- A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-17
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- Written by: Anika Burgess
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-08
- Language: English
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Goddess with a Thousand Faces
- Written by: Jasmine Elmer
- Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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This is a historical journey like no other - unlike every other book on the subject, Goddess with a Thousand Faces transcends geographical boundaries and breaks down cultural barriers. From Rangda in Bali, to Freyja in Iceland and more recognisable faces such as the Greek goddess Artemis, it is a work of true inclusion - listeners are invited to consider these dazzling goddesses as part of a cultural cannon of human femininity; regardless of race, sex, or gender. Goddess with a Thousand Faces asks us to interrogate our past through a fresh new lens.
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Goddess with a Thousand Faces
- Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-17
- Language: English
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Histoire de l'art Tome 1.
- L’art antique
- Written by: Élie Faure
- Narrated by: Lluís Pujol
- Length: 6 hrs
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Plongeon fulgurant aux sources de notre imaginaire, ce premier tome d’Histoire de l’art d’Élie Faure retrace la naissance du regard humain, des grottes paléolithiques aux colosses d’Égypte, des taureaux ailés d’Assyrie aux temples grecs irradiés de lumière, jusqu’à Rome et son génie des pierres et des routes. En conteur-poète et historien visionnaire, Faure révèle comment les œuvres ne sont jamais décor, mais systèmes vivants de forces, où la forme épouse la fonction et l’idée devient chair — l’art comme langue commune, respiration des peuples et mémoire du monde.
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Histoire de l'art Tome 1.
- L’art antique
- Narrated by: Lluís Pujol
- Series: Histoire de l'art, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2025-09-25
- Language: French
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ArtCurious
- Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
- Written by: Jennifer Dasal
- Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas...
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ArtCurious
- Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
- Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-15
- Language: English
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- Written by: Genevieve von Petzinger
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.
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Standout in every respect
- By Rocky Mountain Trekker on 2024-12-22
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-01
- Language: English
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Carla Kissane
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Narrated by: Carla Kissane
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-19
- Language: English
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Seven Days in the Art World
- Written by: Sarah Thornton
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life.
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Art from an ethnographer’s perspective
- By RW on 2025-09-08
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Seven Days in the Art World
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-23
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the British Museum
- A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
- Written by: Noah Angell
- Narrated by: Noah Angell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.
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Ghosts of the British Museum
- A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
- Narrated by: Noah Angell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-11
- Language: English
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The World, the Text, and the Critic
- Written by: Edward W. Said
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
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A sweeping and intellectually rigorous work of literary criticism that moves the field forward, from one of the preeminent public scholars “[Said’s] book is relaxed and discursive, original, immensely learned, fluently written.”―John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review Edward W. Said...
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The World, the Text, and the Critic
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-21
- Language: English
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A Little History of Art
- Little Histories Series
- Written by: Charlotte Mullins
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.
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A Little History of Art
- Little Histories Series
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Series: Little Histories Series, Little Histories
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-17
- Language: English
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Written by: Dave Hickey
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-14
- Language: English
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- The Restless Years, 1922-1968
- Written by: William Feaver
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 42 mins
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The first biography of the large life of one of the most important, enigmatic, yet private artists of the twentieth century. Drawn from almost forty years of conversations with the artist, letters, and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud...
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- The Restless Years, 1922-1968
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-12
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Palazzo
- Written by: Judith Mackrell
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned, and the project was left abandoned and unfinished. Yet in the early 20th century, it attracted three fascinating women: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.
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The Unfinished Palazzo
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-01
- Language: English
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The Forger’s Spell
- A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired artists who ever lived. As Edward Dolnick reveals, his true genius lay in psychological manipulation, and he came within inches of fooling the world. Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life.
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The Forger’s Spell
- A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Last Light
- How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
- Written by: Richard Lacayo
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the bomb throwers. Monet and Renoir...
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Last Light
- How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-11
- Language: English
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On Alchemy
- Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy
- Written by: Brian Cotnoir
- Narrated by: Brian Cotnoir
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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This accessible book contains everything you need to know to start practicing alchemy–the art of transmuting base metal into gold (whether practically or spiritually).
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On Alchemy
- Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy
- Narrated by: Brian Cotnoir
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-13
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Artist
- We Are Designed to Create
- Written by: Christopher Miller
- Narrated by: Christopher J. Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Many people try to describe their experience when “in the zone” or “in the flow” during the creative process. Some claim that a Greater Power or Divine Guidance assisted them. But, what is this state of consciousness, and how do we replicate it? In search of answers, writer and painter Christopher J. Miller took the suggestion of one of his art mentors to watch and chronicle his creative process.
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The Spiritual Artist
- We Are Designed to Create
- Narrated by: Christopher J. Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2024-07-29
- Language: English
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