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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For decades, Sears was best known for catalogs, clothes, and household goods. But in the early 1960s, the company launched an unexpected experiment—selling original works of art by masters like Chagall, Picasso, and Rembrandt in its stores. Shoppers packed the galleries, eager to take home fine art with the same ease as a new appliance. This segment looks back at Sears’ short-lived but remarkable effort to bring high art into everyday American life. -
For decades, Sears was best known for catalogs, clothes, and household goods. But in the early 1960s, the company launched an unexpected experiment—selling original works of art by masters like Chagall, Picasso, and Rembrandt in its stores. Shoppers packed the galleries, eager to take home fine art with the same ease as a new appliance. This segment looks back at Sears’ short-lived but remarkable effort to bring high art into everyday American life.
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This week on David and Art, David Smith looks at how artists and writers have portrayed war—not just the battles, but the people living through them.
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This week on David and Art, David Smith looks at how artists and writers have portrayed war—not just the battles, but the people living through them.
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This week on David and Art, David Smith looks at how artists use their work to reveal scarcity in dignity, opportunity, and connection.
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This week on David and Art, David Smith looks at how artists use their work to reveal scarcity in dignity, opportunity, and connection.
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Most classic art celebrates abundance. This week, David explores work born of something else.
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On this weeks edition of David and Art, host David Smith muses on a particular example of human inspiration behind surralist art.
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On this weeks edition of David and Art, host David Smith muses on a particular example of human inspiration behind surralist art.
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This week on David and Art, we meet the remarkable women artists who painted, sculpted, and persevered through the progressive era. Here's your host David Smith.
