noah charney

Gost tokratnega podkasta je dr. Noah Charney, ameriški pisatelj, novinar in umetnostni zgodovinar, ki se je zaljubil v Slovenijo in postal eden velikih promotorjev naše domovine, kulture in življenja v Sloveniji sploh. Dr. Charney je na letošnjih Dnevih slovenskega turizma postal ambasador slovenskega turizma. Naziv Slovenska turistična organizacija in Ministrstvo za gospodarstvo, turizem in šport od leta 2007 podeljujeta tujcem za promocijo turizma na mednarodnem trgu.  Za STO od leta 2022 v angleškem jeziku ustvarja serijo podkastov Feel Slovenia. Namenjeni so zlasti tujim gostom, ki bi radi izvedeli več o Sloveniji. Skozi epizode srečuje domačine, potuje, uživa v kulinariki in spoznava najboljše iz Slovenije.  V pogovoru z Marjano Grčman ugotavljata, da pri tujcih šteje hiperlokalna izkušnja. 

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SHOW NOTES:

03:00 Dr. Charney’s interest in being a playwright led to foundation of Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)

05:00 Charney’s first book 

05:30 first conference to bring academics and art police together

06:30 criminalistics applied in Slovenia - a balanced policing system that merges the theories of criminology and practice of criminal investigation, forensics & police procedure

11:00 ARCA’s summer conference on art crime in central Italy

14:00 Italy’s Carabinieri Art Squad

17:50 ARCA’s CEO Linda Albertson

18:30 Albertson’s blog post about return of objects to Cambodia by Doug Latchford’s Estate

19:00 ARCA’s blog

21:30 recommendations to those who want to return looted art or cultural heritage objects

24:00 Missing Masterpieces exhibition 

25:35 thief of Van Gogh’s Parsonage arrested though painting is still missing

25:50 tip on whereabouts of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s The White Duck

26:20 panel of Ghent Altarpiece stolen in 1934 is still missing and is an ongoing open case in Ghent, Belgium

27:45 a work is ‘extant’ if its location is known

28:25 Justice Cycle panels by Rogier van der Weyden referenced in Charney’s Museum of Lost Art 

29:00 The Deposition in the Prado in Madrid is now considered van der Weyden’s masterpiece

29:10 van der Weyden considered The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald from the Justice cycle to be his masterpiece

29:45 the Justice cycle destroyed in a fire circa early 17th C.

29:55 survivor bias - 2018 book The Museum of Lost Art

31:10 The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Made the Art World? also has a negative space approach

31:55  2017 book The Collector of Lives focuses on the life of Giorgio Vasari 

33:00 rivalry of artists in Caravaggio’s 1599 The Calling of St. Matthew - artist used a duplicate of Sistine Chapel Ceiling’s hand of God by Michelangelo to paint hand of Jesus 

34:15 Charney’s online discussion of Caravaggio’s 1599 The Calling of St. Matthew 

34:50 Book of Drawings, twelve folios by Giorgio Vasari

36:05 Vinci’s Battle of Angiati; Vasari’s use of false walls to preserve works he valued like da Vinci’s Battle of Angiati

37:15 third work would be the Justice Cycle

37:30 Charney’s preference for work in situ

39:00 Vasari’s use of false walls to cover paintings 

39:50 Vasari’s false wall in front of da Vinci’s Battle

40:50 Charney’s recommendations of books published by ARCA

41:10 Context Matters: Collating the Past by David W.J. Gill - essays on antiquities, looting and archaeology

41:20 Transnational Art Crime by ARCA academic director Edgar Telehouse

41:45 The Secret Collector: the Lost Art Collection of Erich Šlomovič by Leon Pogelick and Slavko Pregl

42:45 Charney’s The Art Thief’s Handbook

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Michael Manske is a radio journalist from the United States who has been living in Maribor, Slovenia for more than a decade. What happens when two American expats in love with Slovenia (and with their Slovenians wives) hang out for the first time?

This episode is part of a series of interviews, 12 in English and 12 in Slovene, led by Noah Charney on the subject of America and Slovenia, supported by the US Embassy and promoting cross-cultural understanding and pollination.