Tag: colonialism

Episode 13: Namatjira’s Creek

Published February 28, 2019

In this episode, Allyson goes down under and discusses the life of Albert Namatjira, his watercolor painting Catherine Creek, Northern Territory (circa 1950), and the situation of Aboriginal Australians in the early to mid-twentieth century.

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Transcript of Episode 13: Namatjira’s Creek

Published February 28, 2019

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Transcript of Episode 12: Wrecked

Published January 28, 2019

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Episode 12: Wrecked

Published January 28, 2019

Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get into the shipwreck on which it was based as well as how it’s used today in pop cultural milestones like Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APES**T” video.

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