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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Whether the target is art or something else, censorship seems to always have a political audience. -
Whether the target is art or something else, censorship seems to always have a political audience.
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Taking art out of museums is a way to make it a more familiar component of life
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Taking art out of museums is a way to make it a more familiar component of life
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In spreading its dollars all around the country, the National Endowment for the Arts tries to make art more accessible to everyone.
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In spreading its dollars all around the country, the National Endowment for the Arts tries to make art more accessible to everyone.
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Writing about the arts so that more people can get into them is a great way to have spent a life.
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As a critic Terry Teachout had few equals. He was that way as a person as well.I met Terry Teachout in October 2007. I was in Washington DC working on my…
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Joan Mitchell was an American artist at the center of the 20th century American scene.You probably know the name Jackson Pollock. You might know Mark…
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John Coltrane's 1965 masterpiece has new life thanks to a 56 year old recording.Listen to this episode.Click the title above to read along. In 2007, 40…
