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 a previous episode of David and Art, David Smith previously discussed the death of artist Brice Marden, but the artists personal life leads to this weeks episode.
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In a previous episode of David and Art, David Smith previously discussed the death of artist Brice Marden, but the artists personal life leads to this weeks episode.
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Remembering a Belgian painter who brought dream images and the unconscious into his art.
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Remembering a Belgian painter who brought dream images and the unconscious into his art.
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This summer, the Pope sat down with 200 artists to find common ground in what they both do.
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This summer, the Pope sat down with 200 artists to find common ground in what they both do.
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The Dutch painter Vermeer is going into assisted living facilities to help people there feel less isolated.
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The Dutch painter Vermeer is going into assisted living facilities to help people there feel less isolated.
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If you haven't considered dance to be a form of public art, take a ride on the subway.Taking tap dance into places where people least expect it is a good way of turning anywhere into an art space.
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If you haven't considered dance to be a form of public art, take a ride on the subway.Taking tap dance into places where people least expect it is a good way of turning anywhere into an art space.