David Smith
Host of David and ArtDavid Smith, host of David and Art, is an American historian with broad interests in his field. He’s been at Baylor University since 2002 teaching classes in American history, military history, and cultural history. For eight years he wrote an arts and culture column for the Waco Tribune-Herald, and his writings on history, art, and culture have appeared in other newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News.
The very first record he remembers listening to when he was little was Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and that set him on a lifelong path of loving music and the arts. He’s loved history for almost as long, and finally saw them come together in his career. He believes that history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history—that they co-exist and are best understood together.
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In his last episode of David and Art, host David Smith traced how the government first started wrestling with its role in the arts. Today, he rolls back the clock to look at how that push-and-pull actually began. -
In his last episode of David and Art, host David Smith traced how the government first started wrestling with its role in the arts. Today, he rolls back the clock to look at how that push-and-pull actually began.
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The Eisenhower years are usually remembered for buttoned-up politics and post-war calm, but behind the scenes, some unexpected conversations were happening about art. The kind that hinted at big changes ahead.
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The Eisenhower years are usually remembered for buttoned-up politics and post-war calm, but behind the scenes, some unexpected conversations were happening about art. The kind that hinted at big changes ahead.
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Art doesn’t just show us history — sometimes it travels through it. Statues, paintings, entire collections make their way across centuries and continents, carrying their stories with them. In today’s David and Art, host David Smith follows one of those journeys, from ancient Rome to Texas.
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Art doesn’t just show us history — sometimes it travels through it. Statues, paintings, entire collections make their way across centuries and continents, carrying their stories with them. In today’s David and Art, host David Smith follows one of those journeys, from ancient Rome to Texas.
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On this edition of David in Art, host David Smith looks at how a specific case of political leadership supported, inspired and influenced countless artists, both professional and amateur alike.
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On this edition of David in Art, host David Smith looks at how a specific case of political leadership supported, inspired and influenced countless artists, both professional and amateur alike.
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Sometimes an artist you love drifts from your mind. Then something happens to remind you. In today’s David and Art, host David Smith revisits a French painter who isn’t a household name but probably should be. -
Sometimes an artist you love drifts from your mind. Then something happens to remind you. In today’s David and Art, host David Smith revisits a French painter who isn’t a household name but probably should be.
