The Whispering Gallery
Spooky, supernatural, unexplained, paranormal art The Whispering Gallery podcast explores spine-tingling and hard-to-believe spooky art stories; including cursed paintings, paintings prints of monsters, hauntings, UFOs and more. I look at art history a little differently. Learn about the spooky side of art guided by artists from around the world, and throughout history. Suzanne Nikolaisen sparks -your- imagination with spooky art stories that are best told after dark! Subscribe to join our community of spooky art fans! Please share an episode you love with a friend! Remember to keep your flashlight close, and your spooky art stories closer when visiting the Whispering Gallery!
Episodes
Welcome back to the Whispering Gallery podcast. Tonight we’re heading into goblin territory.
In a Whispering Gallery first, I’m joined by Matt King, author of A History of Goblins and associate professor at University of South Florida.
Hidden in caves, lurking in poems and folklore, tangled through fairy tales, demons, and fantasy worlds — goblins have followed humanity through centuries of storytelling. But where did goblins c...
Lean in dear listener as together, we disentangle some of the fairy tale contributors who were not of the farming or peasant vein after all. Some lived as far away as across the street, another, a widow, sold garden vegetables at the market between storytelling to make ends meet for her multi-generational home, and one of the Grimm’s sources came from a huguenot, French background--so our friend Charles Perrault and his Mothe...
The story of the Whispering Gallery Podcast's Midnight Mother Goose continues from part 1 where we roamed the woods of France with Charles Perrault's fairy tales to read at salon's prior to the age of enlightenment.
Across the Rhine river from France and Charles Perrault's fairy tales--in Germany (and many years later) the Grimm Brothers were gathering fairy tales from family, friends, aristocrats, multilingual sources--inclu...
Mother Goose is not a particular person, although some have tried to claim there was one, but a Mother Goose was a -collection- of beloved stories.
Tonight our story takes us into a place of disquiet through dark coniferous forests with copses of fir and spruce trees. Strangely, at times these dark forests seem to bio-locate between Germany and France in Mother Goose stories and fairy tales of the Brother Grimm. Geographicall...
See the Night Watch painting by Rembrandt Van Rijn at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Painting Name is AKA The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Com...
Episode Image Source: frazettamuseum.com Frazetta Gallery Store, Frank Frazetta, 1980, Art Print ...
Episode Image Source: frazettamuseum.com Frazetta Gallery Store, Frank Frazetta, 1980, Art Print No. 118 - Mothman, painting, accessed 29, August, 2024 <https://www.frazettamuseum.com/colle...
WGP: Clue of the Crumbling Cake Paintings
A still life is a category of artwork that dates back to the 1600’s. A collection of things brought together (inanimate) gathered often on a table for the artist to work from and reference. The artist can work with this grouping of items, coming back over one or more sessions to complete the drawing or painting. Nothing in the grouping changes from...
Alnwick castle (parts of which were founded in 1096) has a peculiar bamboo labyrinth in “Alnwick Gardens” that was created from 500 live, evergreen and yet pere...
The Palace of Knossos (nah-sohs) was built on the largest island in Greece: Crete. The island has mountains and gorges, and appears to be a bit of a d...
We left off with two aba...
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The “day” of the dead is actually two days of remembering loved ones who have passed away and welcoming their spirits home. I feel like they’ve got this holiday down way better than I’ve ever celebrated Me...
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