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Sacred MechanicsEP2: Dreams, Séances & Art Collide: A Conversation with Jennifer HiggieIn this episode of Sacred Mechanics, I sit down with the brilliant Jennifer Higgie—writer, curator, and author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World—for a conversation that moves fluidly between the seen and unseen.We dive deep into her research on women artists who created in dialogue with the spirit world, often in defiance of the norms of their time. Along the way, we explore the liminal space where art meets mysticism—where dreams speak, marigolds hold meaning, and the veil between science and spirituality is at its thinnest.Fro...2025-04-1349 min
Australian Women ArtistsJennifer Higgie on Clarice BeckettAustralian Women ArtistsThe PodcastEpisode 4Jennifer Higgie on Clarice BeckettJennifer Higgie is an internationally respected arts writer and art historian who has lived and worked in London for many years. She is a novelist, screenwriter, art critic and former editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine Frieze. She was the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, and has just published Season 2 of Artist’s Artists - the podcast she hosts for the National Gallery of Australia. 2025-02-2526 min
Pop ApocalypseWomen, Art, and the Spirit World - A Talk With Jennifer Higgie, Author of The Other SideFor Episode 11 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome Jennifer Higgie. Jennifer is the author of several books, including Bedlam, a novel about the artist Richard Dadd; The Mirror and the Palette, a history of women’s self-portraits; and The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World, a beautiful and personal study of the relationship between spiritual experience and art in the lives of modern women. In this career-spanning chat, Jennifer and I discuss her early career in painting, what inspired her to write Bedlam, and how the art world changed during her time at Frieze ma...2025-01-141h 15
Harvard Divinity SchoolWomen, Art, and the Spirit World – A Talk With Jennifer Higgie, Author of The Other SideFor Episode 11 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome Jennifer Higgie. Jennifer is the author of several books, including Bedlam, a novel about the artist Richard Dadd; The Mirror and the Palette, a history of women’s self-portraits; and The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World, a beautiful and personal study of the relationship between spiritual experience and art in the lives of modern women. In this career-spanning chat, Jennifer and I discuss her early career in painting, what inspired her to write Bedlam, and how the art world changed during her time at Frieze magazine. Th...2025-01-141h 15
The Art ShowLaura Jones on the Archibald prize plus Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artistsDaniel catches up with Archibald Prize winner Laura Jones, who painted author Tim Winton. Painter and sitter share a passion for WA's Ningaloo reef and its survival amid climate crisis. Unusually, Laura's own portrait is also on display – she entered it in the concurrent Sulman Prize, on at the Art Gallery of NSW. Interviewing visual artists is just one of the things that Jennifer Higgie has mastered in her decades-long career at the helm of Frieze magazine and as a writer, reviewer and podcast host. Daniel speaks with London-based Jennifer as her new podcast series for the National...2025-01-0854 min
BEYOND with Tiffany HopkinsMy Favorite Books of 2024Here are the books that made my year! Plus one for next year and a few from the past couple years. I mentioned Joanna & my class on June 25th about our books that you can learn about on Lily Dale’s website. And you can pre-order my book Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead!
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Heaven is a Place on Earth by Adrian Shirk
A Wild and Sacred Call by Will. A Adams
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can...2024-12-2336 min
Extraordinary CreativesWhy Artists Can't Hide Their DNA and Need Community to Thrive with Jennifer HiggieIn this episode, Ceri speaks with Jennifer Higgie, whose evolution from painting lemons to shaping Frieze magazine spans more than two decades. She opens up about the realities of the art world, the necessity of creative discipline, and her mission to respect artists' work with authenticity. Through her shift from art critic to author uncovering hidden women artists in art history, Jennifer demonstrates what it takes to build and sustain a creative life. Her thoughts and experience of writing's emotional toll and the exposure of sharing creative work resonate deeply, while her practical experience serves as both a roadmap...2024-12-021h 17
Great LivesZing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af KlintHilma af Klint (1862-1944) was barely known during her lifetime but an exhibition of her work at the Guggenheim Museum in 2018 shattered attendance records. it was called Paintings for the Future, and the giant abstract work astounded visitors who had not heard of her before.
Joining journalist Zing Tsjeng in the studio to discuss her life is Jennifer Higgie, who wrote in her book, The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and The Spirit World, "For Hilma af Klint, the very air throbbed with unseen energies. The question was - how to interpret them? How to give them...2024-08-1327 min
Shake That SoulSpiritual Connection in Creating Art with CJ MillerIn episode 33, I interviewed CJ Miller. CJ is an abstract mixed media Artist, Author, and Host of the Spiritual Artist podcast. He recently had an immersive art exhibition in Texas showcasing his vivid abstract paintings which correspond with music. CJ’s vision is to help artists tap into what we he calls our unique, creative DNA. We chatted about an art technique called asemic writing, dealing with emotion, the inspiration behind his book called The Spiritual Artist, and how to tap into our creativity through our connection to the divine. This episode will be helpful if you have internal st...2024-06-1252 min
Talk ArtJennifer Higgie and Chloe Stead, presented by Sotheby'sWe meet author/art critic Jennifer Higgie and Sotheby’s Chloe Stead to discuss the inspiring new exhibition ‘London: An Artistic Crossroads’ which has just opened at Sotheby’s New Bond Street and runs until 5th July 2024. #AD / this episode is presented by Sotheby’s.Sotheby's, in partnership with Art UK and twelve museums across the country, are staging a month-long exhibition, open to the public and free of charge, shining a spotlight on the UK as a centre of creative cross-pollination.The exhibition, ‘London: An Artistic Crossroads’, brings together an assemblage of remarkable wor...2024-06-0452 min
Start The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.Hagstone by Sinéad GleesonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688289to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hagstone
Author: Sinéad Gleeson
Narrator: Tara Flynn
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Release date: April 11, 2024
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER ‘Wild, singular…gripped me from the start’ DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Intelligent, probing’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL ‘A gorgeous, mysterious read’ AISLING BEA ‘I adored it’ LOUISE KENNEDY *A most anticipated 2024 debut in BBC, Daily Mail, Stylist, New Statesman, Sunday Independent, Irish Times and Irish Examiner* The haunting debut novel from acclaimed, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson. The sea is steady for no...2024-04-117h 06Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionHagstone by Sinéad GleesonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688289to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hagstone
Author: Sinéad Gleeson
Narrator: Tara Flynn
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Release date: April 11, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER ‘Wild, singular…gripped me from the start’ DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Intelligent, probing’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL ‘A gorgeous, mysterious read’ AISLING BEA ‘I adored it’ LOUISE KENNEDY *A most anticipated 2024 debut in BBC, Daily Mail, Stylist, New Statesman, Sunday Independent, Irish Times and Irish Examiner* The haunting debut novel from acclaimed, Irish no. 1 bestselling author...2024-04-117h 06
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenHagstone by Sinéad GleesonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hagstone Author: Sinéad Gleeson Narrator: Tara Flynn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER ‘Wild, singular…gripped me from the start’ DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Intelligent, probing’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL ‘A gorgeous, mysterious read’ AISLING BEA ‘I adored it’ LOUISE KENNEDY *A most anticipated 2024 debut in BBC, Daily Mail, Stylist, New Statesman, Sunday Independent, Irish Times and Irish Examiner* The haunting debut novel from acclaimed, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson. The sea is steady fo...2024-04-1105 min
The Art ShowJennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artistsInterviewing visual artists is just one of the things that Jennifer Higgie has mastered in her decades-long career at the helm of Frieze magazine, as a writer, reviewer and podcast host. Daniel speaks with London-based Jennifer as her new podcast series for the National Gallery of Australia is released. Listen to Jennifer and Daniel's conversation about women artists and the spirit world.In 2007, a group of 'new media' artists came together in India's largest city to form CAMP, a studio with a rooftop cinema. In early-2000s Mumbai, experimental digital media didn't fit into an existing art sce...2024-03-2054 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastLavinia Greenlaw & Jennifer Higgie: The Vast ExtentLavinia Greenlaw’s new book The Vast Extent is a collection of ‘exploded essays’, about light and image, sight and the unseen, covering wide territories with the scientific precision and ease of access which characterises her poetry. She was joined by Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodGet The Vast Extent: lrb.me/thevastextentpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-03-0654 min
The Book Review4 Early-Year Book RecommendationsThe early part of a year can mean new books to read, or it can mean catching up on older ones we haven’t gotten to yet. This week, Gilbert Cruz chats with the Book Review’s Sarah Lyall and Sadie Stein about titles from both categories that have held their interest lately, including a 2022 biography of John Donne, a book about female artists who nurtured an interest in the supernatural, and the history of a Jim Crow-era mental asylum, along with a gripping new novel by Janice Hallett.“It’s just so deft,” Stein says of Hallett’s...2024-02-0934 min
Dark Side of the LibraryDark Non-Fiction Books Coming Out January 2024Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #169: Dark Non-Fiction Books Coming Out January 2024 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Broke Witch: Magick Spells and Powerful Potions that Use What You Can Grow, Find, or Already Have, by Deborah Castellano (Jan 23) https://amzn.to/3FH4yWb The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers2024-01-2422 min
Garageland SalonThe Other Side with Jennifer HiggieCathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to writer and artist Jennifer Higgie about her most recent book The Other Side: A Journey into Women Art and the Spirit World. This is the latest episode in our Biography series and we discuss the way the book is structured around elements of memoir. The conversation takes in The Dark Monarch, weaving, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Georgiana Houghton, conspiracy theories, Annie Besant, Ithell Colquhoun and much more! The painting on the cover of The Other Side is by Donna Huddleston2024-01-1248 min
Garageland SalonThe Other Side with Jennifer HiggieCathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to writer and artist Jennifer Higgie about her most recent book The Other Side: A Journey into Women Art and the Spirit World. This is the latest episode in our Biography series and we discuss the way the book is structured around elements of memoir. The conversation takes in The Dark Monarch, weaving, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Georgiana Houghton, conspiracy theories, Annie Besant, Ithell Colquhoun and much more! The painting on the cover of The Other Side is by Donna Huddleston2024-01-1049 min
Art of HistoryThe Other Side: Women Artists and the Spirit WorldAmanda is joined on the podcast for this special episode by Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. Uncover the role that spiritualism has played in art, particularly since the dawn of modernism, and delve into the biographies of some trailblazing female artists who were all influenced by the occult.The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, The Other Side is so much more than a retelling of art history. It is an e...2024-01-0454 min
The Art ShowJerry Saltz says 'show up' (you big scaredy cats) + the women artists who spoke to spiritsJerry Saltz is the Pulitzer prize-winning art critic for New York Magazine. Before he turned his hand to writing at the age of 40, he drove long-haul trucks and was a failed visual artist. Jerry reckons the gatekeepers of the art world have effectively 'effed off' and now anyone can —and must— take part. Jerry Saltz's latest book of essays is Art is Life. First broadcast January 2023.Many great artists have claimed to communicate with the spirit world, especially in the heyday of Theosophy and Spiritualism — so why is it shied away from in art history? And why did it...2023-12-2054 min
The Worms PodcastOpening up a can of worms with JENNIFER HIGGIEMost recently the author of “The Other Side: a journey into women, art and the spirit world” Jennifer Higgie is an acclaimed writer, screenwriter, art critic and former editor of the London based contemporary arts magazine, Frieze.Jennifers book were Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford and The See through House by Shelley Klein.
2023-12-0747 min
ART FICTIONSSymbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON)Guest artist HELEN JOHNSON
joins JILLIAN KNIPE for this final episode of Series 5, to discuss her work via 'The Birds' by Tarjei Vesaas. Published originally in 1957, then by Penguin Random House in 2019, this short novel describes the relationship between Hege and her younger, mentally challenged brother Mattis. With a sense of non-judgemental simplicity and acute sensitivity, we join the siblings as they negotiate everyday life in partial isolation and on the edge of something happening.
HELEN and Jillian's conversation encompasses lightning, tenderness, siblings, gullibility, hiding, tapestry, holding, frustration, anguish, excavation, metaphors, equality, masking, knitting needles...2023-12-061h 28ART FICTIONSWord Play and Multiple Meanings (ANNA BARHAM)Guest artist ANNA BARHAM joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Companion Piece' by Ali Smith. Published in 2023 by Penguin Books, the novel explores language, meaning, relationships and contemporary politics in what may be seen as a way of bringing a form of conclusion to Smith's urgently written then quickly published, seasonal texts: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring.
ANNA and Jillian's discussion encompasses disfluencies, purity, transcription software, unfolding meanings, easy solutions, social spaces, silent conversations, showing off, undermining binary, performing language and dog eyebrows. As well as the body in the digital, pushing language around...2023-06-3056 min
BEYOND with Tiffany HopkinsReading Reading ReadingIn learning mediumship, the second most important thing (after practice) is exposing yourself to new perspectives, techniques, and ideas around your practice. This year I got a whole bunch of new mediumship books for the comparative titles section of my proposal for a book on mediumship. Here are some thoughts about them and books on a few tangental topics that I love too. Here's the list for reference:
Answers From the Ancestral Realm by Sharon Anne Klingler
Ancestor Medicine by Daniel Foor
Brujas by Lorraine Montegut
The Other...2023-05-2337 min
All About ArtRunning an Arts Project Space with Penelope Kupfer, Director of KupferEpisode 47 of ‘All About Art’: Running an Arts Project Space with Penelope Kupfer, Director of Kupfer
In this episode, I sat down with Penelope Kupfer, director of the eponymous gallery and project space in Hackney, north east London. Kupfer functions as a platform for exhibitions and residencies. Opened in 2017, they have showcased the work of nearly 80 artists from different generations and geographies with a focus on those who are currently underrepresented in the London art circuit. Listen on to hear me ask Penelope about founding the project space and how it has developed since its i...2023-04-3030 min
Arts & IdeasHilma af KlintAs a new Tate exhibition of paintings puts the work of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint alongside modernist giant, Piet Mondrian. Both were painters fascinated by esoteric and occult ideas that became more marginal with the ascendancy of modernism. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss these abstract art works, theosophy and a search for the spirit world.Nabila Abdel Nabi is co-curator of Hilma Af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life runs at Tate Modern in LondonJennifer Higgie is the author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World2023-04-2045 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastBrian Dillon & Jennifer Higgie: AffinitiesIn Affinities, a series of linked essays, Brian Dillon investigates what it might mean for a thing to be like something else, and what it might mean for things to be connected even when they are nothing like one another. Currently Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London, Dillon’s writing is always surprising, and revelatory. Expect both revelations and surprises.Dillon was joined in conversation by the writer Jennifer Higgie, whose latest book is The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.Buy Affinities: lrb.me/affi...2023-04-191h 13
See AlsoEpisode 44: She Has No God with Naomi FrySee Also is a weekly dispatch that connects the dots of pop culture, with plenty of further reading and ideas to Add To Cart – or at least Open in New Tab.This week, Kate and Brodie are joined by New Yorker writer, great follow and Pumphead Naomi Fry (@frynaomifry) to discuss the lightning bolt necklace of it all. Together we discuss how LVP loves the concept of sexiness and being sexless and share memories of the salad days at her dusty, shellacked establishments. Then, we compare some reality tv gems and cleanse the palette with three bo...2023-03-241h 14ART FICTIONSChannelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake into Polish with her friend and ex-student Dizzy.
We talk about how women found agency within the rise of spiritualism, telephoning the dead, art history as a work in progress, tigers of wrath, the golden age of female detective fiction, hanging o...2023-02-2254 min
The Art ShowThe women artists who spoke to spirits and were left out of the canonJennifer Higgie talks about her new book on women artists and the spirit world. Plus, Daniel visits the largest collection of artworks by the Victorian medium Georgiana Houghton, held at a spiritualist church.2023-02-1400 min
Relish: This Best-Selling Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.The Other Side by Jennifer HiggiePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/29711to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Other Side
Author: Jennifer Higgie
Narrator: Jennifer Higgie
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 02-02-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists...2023-02-029h 44
ArtCurious PodcastCurious Callback: Jennifer Higgie's "The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits"Last year, I enjoyed a fantastic live conversation on Fireside with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jennifer. It only feels right to revisit her book, and our conversation, in connection with our current season about women artists. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I do...2022-12-1244 min
Art Guide Australia PodcastArt Abroad #2: Jennifer Higgie on arts writing and women in art history“I was sort of staggered,” says writer Jennifer Higgie. “Why hadn’t I ever been taught about these women? Why weren’t they included in mainstream art histories?” Higgie is talking about the marginalisation of women in art history—and it’s something she speaks to in our latest podcast episode.
Art Abroad looks at artists and creatives who moved from Australia to London, and while Jennifer Higgie studied fine art in Canberra and Melbourne, she moved to London in the 1997 when she was in her late twenties. Starting as a painter, she soon turned to writing in London, eventually holding a two-dec...2022-08-1934 min
Art Guide Australia PodcastArt Abroad #2: Jennifer Higgie on arts writing and women in art history“I was sort of staggered,” says writer Jennifer Higgie. “Why hadn’t I ever been taught about these women? Why weren’t they included in mainstream art histories?” Higgie is talking about the marginalisation of women in art history—and it’s something she speaks to in our latest podcast episode.Art Abroad looks at artists and creatives who moved from Australia to London, and while Jennifer Higgie studied fine art in Canberra and Melbourne, she moved to London in the 1997 when she was in her late twenties. Starting as a painter, she soon turned to writing in London, eventu...2022-08-1934 minArts & IdeasArtists' models and fameThe red-haired Joanna Hiffernan was James McNeill Whistler's Woman in White. An exhibition curated by Margaret MacDonald for the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the National Gallery of Art, Washington uncovers the role she played in his career. An instagram account about the women painted by Viennese artist Egon Schiele has amassed over 100,000 followers. Now Sophie Haydock is publishing a novel called The Flames, which imagines the story of Schiele's wife and three other women who modelled for him. Ilona Sagar has been working for over 2 years in social care services and community settings in the London Borough...2022-02-2344 min
Athena Art FoundationWhat Are Museums For? - RepresentationFor many individuals and communities, the history of art has been a history of neglect, exclusivity and exclusion. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Rebecca Birrell, Jennifer Higgie and Dan Vo, to consider representation in the context of gender, sexuality and sexual politics. Have approaches to the acquisition and display of works by and documenting women and LGBTQ+ lives changed in recent years? How should museums deal with problematic histories and with objectifying or violent imagery from the past? What level of...2021-12-2335 min
The Fitzwilliam Museum PodcastsRepresentationFor many individuals and communities, the history of art has been a history of neglect, exclusivity and exclusion. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Rebecca Birrell, Jennifer Higgie and Dan Vo, to consider representation in the context of gender, sexuality and sexual politics. Have approaches to the acquisition and display of works by and documenting women and LGBTQ+ lives changed in recent years? How should museums deal with problematic histories and with objectifying or violent imagery from the past? What level of...2021-12-2335 min
Unsung HistoryLoïs Mailou JonesBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1905, artist Loïs Mailou Jones’s career spanned much of the 20th Century as both a painter and a teacher of generations of Black artists at Howard University.Jones faced racial discrimination in the US throughout much of her long life, and found refuge and inspiration in the Harlem Renaissance Movement and in the expatriate community of Black artists in Paris. Her 1953 marriage to Haitian artist Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, and later research trips to Africa further influenced her work.Her many important paintings include The...2021-12-0632 min
ArtCurious PodcastLive on Fireside: Jennifer Higgie's "The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits"Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don’t worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. On our November 1 live event, I had the great pleasure of speaking with author and art critic Jennifer Higgie about her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits. I love this book and gobbled it up in a day— I meant it when I said that I really love this book!— and I adored talking all things women artists with Jen...2021-11-2950 min
Chamber of Musical CuriositiesJennifer Higgie & Paul Kildea: An unplanned journey from artist to authorIn this instalment of the podcast, Paul Kildea speaks with author, screenwriter and art critic, Jennifer Higgie.2021-10-0529 min
Art SenseEp. 2: Author Jennifer Higgie and Artist Sandy Skoglund1:10 - Frieze Editor-at-large Jennifer Higgie discusses her new book “The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits”23:12 - Artist Sandy Skoglund talks about her body of work, her current exhibit at the McNay in San Antonio and a group show she will be part of next year at LACMA. Known as a pioneer in staged photography, we discuss how she is actually an interdisciplinary artist whose work questions fact and fiction61:47 - Art headlines2021-07-061h 05
Culture FileThe Culture File Weekly July 3rd: Britney Spears, Nietzsche's Way, Women's Self-portraitsWomen as they saw themselves in Jennifer Higgie's tour of self-portraits by women painters through history, hiking the Chemin De Nietzsche but looking for Bono, and the robotic life of Britney.2021-07-0228 minCulture FileThe Mirror and the Palette (Part 2) | Culture FileArt critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists (including this time Artemisia Gentileschi) through the genre to which they had the greatest access: self-portraiture.2021-07-0108 minCulture FileThe Mirror and the Palette (part 1) | Culture FileArt critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists via the genre to which they had the greatest access: self-portraiture.2021-06-3007 minArts & IdeasWomen's ArtA Bouillabaisse soup inspired hat paraded by the surrealist artist Eileen Agar in 1948 caused raised eyebrows to the passers-by captured in the Pathé news footage on show in the Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition exploring her career. It's just one of many displays showcasing women's art open this summer at galleries across the UK, so today's Free Thinking looks at what it means to put women's art back on the walls and into the way we look at art history. Shahidha Bari is joined by Whitechapel curator Lydia Yee, by Frieze editor-at-large and podcaster Jennifer Higgie, by New Generation Thinker Adjoa O...2021-06-0844 min
The Great Women ArtistsJennifer Higgie on Suzanne ValadonIn episode 59 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews acclaimed writer JENNIFER HIGGIE on the great Parisian painter, Suzanne Valadon (1863–1938) !!!!
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And WOW, is this one of the greatest stories in art history of the acrobat-turned-artist-model-turned-artist Valadon (born Marie-Clémentine), who grew up in Montmartre, the bohemian quarter of Paris; supported herself from the age of ten; but whose life took a turn after a fall from an acrobat in her early teens!
Modelling for the likes of Renoir to...2021-04-0744 min
Escape To The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Soul-Stirring!The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer HiggiePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/29808to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Mirror and the Palette
Author: Jennifer Higgie
Narrator: Jennifer Higgie
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 03-30-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
Until the 20th century, art history was, in the main, written by white, western men who tended to write about other white, western men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet, they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws...2021-03-309h 37
Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela Steinfeld#27 JENNIFER HIGGIE | writer, author, editor, host of Bowdown Podcast | London, UKMy guest today is Jennifer Higgie, writer and art critic. She has been Editor at Large for Frieze Magazine and is the host of Bowdown a wonderful Podcast about women in art history, she curated the Hayward touring and Arts Council exhibition „One Day, Something. Happens: Pictures of People“ and wrote and illustrated the children's book „There's Not One“. Currently she is working on various screenplays and writing projects. Her book „The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits“ is forthcoming at Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. We discuss her art studies in Australia, her moving to London, her transition from artist...2021-02-1638 min
Bow Down: Women in ArtLianne La Havas on Frida KahloFor this special episode of Bow Down, Jennifer Higgie talks to the brilliant singer and songwriter Lianne La Havas about the influence of art – and in particular, Frida Kahlo – on her life and work.2020-10-2613 min
The Curious Advantage Podcast#15 Curation, Women in Art & Curiosity with Jennifer Higgie (Editor, Frieze Magazine)
Jennifer Higgie, editor at large for Frieze Magazine and author, joins Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones in a fascinating Curious Advantage Podcast on Curation, Women in Art and Curiosity. Curation is a power skill in the digital world where we have access to infinite data and knowledge. How do you synthesize information? What are the key principles of curation? How is Curation connected to Curiosity? What is the role of women in art and how did women exemplify the power of curiosity? Are you curious? Subscribe today!
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#curation #womaninart #c...2020-09-2928 min
Bow Down: Women in ArtBow Down: Series Two TrailerBow Down – the podcast about significant female artists who deserve our attention – returns for series 2. Presented by Jennifer Higgie, guests include the artists Sonia Boyce, Amalia Pica and Sally Smart; the filmmaker Mark Cousins; the musician Alison Goldfrapp; potter Magdalene Odundo; curator and fashion designer Duro Olowu and the legendary feminist art-historian Griselda Pollock. 2020-08-0601 min
ECHOLOTThere is no stillness<p>For this episode we have invited Jennifer Higgie, editor at large of frieze magazine and the writer and thinker behind <i>Bow Down</i> an Instagram account and a podcast dedicated to significant women artists. Jennifer is in conversation with Liliane Lijn, an American-born artist based in London, who has been working with kinetic texts as early as since 1962. For decades Liliane has been involving poetry and light - set into motions in objects in space. Her installations induce a physical sense of time, the elapsing of time becomes a gesture, a haptic...2020-06-1200 min
Dior Talks[Feminist Art] Boundary-breaking artist Tracey Emin on her very personal return to paintingWelcome to this fourth episode of Dior Talks. This podcast series will explore the connections between Creative Director of Women’s collections Maria Grazia Chiuri and contemporary women artists and curators.
In this episode, series host Katy Hessel, the London-based writer, curator and art historian, talks to Tracey Emin, one of the pre-eminent figures of contemporary art in the UK. In 2017, Emin, whose practice has always been firmly yet uniquely framed within the history of feminist discourse, created a specially commissioned work, Should Love Last, for the Dior pop-up store at 44 Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
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Women at the HelmEpisode 73: Ellen Altfest: "The Back"The painter Ellen Altfest engulfs her canvases with hyperreal, cropped intimate objects, a house plant and the male, nude figure. We will be taking a close look at her work, "The Back."Go to my website at www.beyondthepaint.net to see all the images discussed. Resources for this episode include the Saatchi Gallery (www.saatchigallery.com) Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org), writer Jennifer Higgie, and the art historian, Dr. Robert Atkins.2020-02-0811 min
Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis PodcastsThe Enigma of the Hour: Artist’s Talk, Jennifer Higgie in conversation with Daniel Silver and Simon MorettiLeading art critic, writer and Editorial Director of Frieze Magazine, Jennifer Higgie, presents a talk with artist Daniel Silver and artist and curator of The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought Simon Moretti in response to the exhibition, expanding on the themes of translation, transformation, temporality and metaphor, key to both art and psychoanalysis.
Jennifer Higgie is a writer and the editorial director of Frieze Magazine. She is the editor of The Artist’s Joke published by the MIT Press.
Part of a series of events which coincide with The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought an exhi...2019-10-151h 04
Raven RowHolding it Together: Art Magazines, Then and NowPanel discussion held on 25 April 2015 with Jennifer Higgie, Jason Farago and Jo Melvin, convened by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury
Jennifer Higgie (writer and co-editor of Frieze) and Jason Farago (writer and founding editor of the new art magazine Even) join Jo Melvin (curator of Five Issues of Studio International, Raven Row) to discuss some of the motivations, exasperations and ambitions behind art magazines from the 1960s to the present day, broaching such questions as: What conditions compel a magazine to get started and thrive? How do magazines create and serve networks of writers and artists? What does an editor...2015-05-311h 33