Art reveals the world to us in new ways. David and Art is KWBU's weekly feature focusing on art.
The module is hosted by David Smith, 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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There are some artists whose careers become so much a part of our lives that we stop noticing just how much they have accomplished. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes a look at one of those artists, and at a career that began in a very different place and time. -
Every once in a while, you run across a piece of broadcasting history that makes you realize just how different radio used to be. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes us back to one of those moments, when the relationship between radio and music looked very different from what we know today.
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This week on David and art, a trip back in time - to the Austin music scene of the '70s and '80s, and a few musical characters who were part of it. Here's David Smith.
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Sometimes a piece of art becomes important for reasons that have very little to do with the art itself. Here's David Smith with this week's edition of David and Art.
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On today’s David and Art, host David Smith looks at some of the very different paths Modernist artists took.
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Every once in a while, I think it's probably worth our time to talk through Modernism, both as an idea and as an art form that's a manifestation of that idea.
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Today on David and Art, a look at why artists might deserve a plac ein our pockets right alongside presidents.
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A World Cup jersey turned heads this summer—not just for the play on the field, but for the art it carried. Today, we take a look at René Magritte, the Belgian surrealist whose imagination made that moment possible.
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Some of the most familiar images in American history were created by an artist most people have never heard of. On today's David and Art, host David Smith introduces us to that artist.
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Long before people could share photos with a tap of a screen, printed artwork helped shape how people saw the world. Today on David and Art, host David Smith looks at one company that did exactly that.
