2025–2026
Fall Series: Art Messages
Explore how art has and continues to convey human attitudes about nature throughout time in the three-part series Nature and Art: A History Through Art. Episode one looks at the first civilizations; episode two examines humans struggling to understand nature; and episode three delves into humanity’s ever-changing relationship with the natural world.
Episode 1: Out of Nature (60 minutes)
October 10, 2025
Episode 2: Understanding Nature (59 minutes)
October 17, 2025
Episode 3: Future Nature (60 minutes)
October 24, 2025
Book Related to Fall Series: Art Messages
- Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment by Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock
Winter Series: Royal Aesthetics
Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection illustrates the history of the royal art collection from King of England Henry VIII (1491‒1547) to Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms Elizabeth II (1926‒2022). Learn about the artistic preferences of various rulers and what messages such partialities communicated to the outside world.
Episode 1: Dangerous Magic (52 minutes)
February 6, 2026
Episode 2: Paradise Regained (53 minutes)
February 13, 2026
Episode 3: Palaces and Pleasuredomes (52 minutes)
February 20, 2026
Episode 4: Modern Times (52 minutes)
February 27, 2026
Books Related to Winter Series: Royal Aesthetics
- Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection by Michael Hall
- The Palace by Gareth Russell
Spring Series: Going Dutch
Learn about Holland’s Golden Age. From an exploration of Amsterdam to an in-depth investigation of enigmatic painter Johannes Vermeer (1632‒75), this series highlights Dutch modernity and the dawn of the art market.
Secret Cities: Amsterdam (51 minutes)
March 27, 2026
Chasing Rembrandt: How Art Became a Business (53 minutes)
April 3, 2026
Close to Vermeer (78 minutes)
April 17, 2026
Books Related to Winter Series: Going Dutch
- Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800 by Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden
- Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by by Laura J. Snyder
