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Founded in 2018 as a long form conversation on the classical


01:34:33
Establishing Fine Art as a Religion of Purity: Reading Larry Shiner's The Invention of Art | Part 3
02:09:47
Dr. Nir Buras on The Classic Planning Institute, Modern Urban Planning and The Future of Our Cities
01:26:23
Cyclical thinking, Discontinuity and Basic Human Stories | Jon White, Sturla Ellingvåg & Jan-Ove Tuv
01:44:50
Creation, Cows and Sacrifice | Jon White on the Motifs and Interpretation of Indo-European Mythology
01:19:36
19th Century French Bohemia and the Proto-Avant-Garde | A Review of Michael J. Pearce's Book
01:49:37
Kitsch, Propaganda and the American Avant-Garde | An Interview with Michael Pearce
59:27
Natures of Odin, Preparing for Ragnarök and the Optimism of Poetic Edda | Norse Mythology Part Three
01:27:22
Seth Fite on Sincerity in Painting, Andrew Wyeth, and Human Suffering as the Superior Subject Matter
01:10:14
Mushrooms & Shamanic Wisdom, Sacred Trees and the Number Nine | Norse Mythology Pt. 2
01:35:05
Henrik Knightingale on his Debut Play "In His Own Shadow" and How to Write a Compelling Story
01:25:44
The Genius, Museum and Art vs Craft: Reading Larry Shiner’s The Invention of Art | Part 2
01:26:24
Everything Starts With the Columns | Architect Nils Freckeus on Beauty and Classical Principles
51:47
The Æsir, Vanir & Jötnar | Bronze Age Blending, War and Trade | Norse Mythology Pt. 1
01:17:51
Kaja Norum on Beauty, Sentimentality and the Pleasure of Imitation
01:54:18
Fine Art’s Expulsion of Craft and Sensuality: Reading Larry Shiner’s "The Invention of Art" | Part 1
01:08:39
Belief in Progress: Blessing or Curse to Classical Painters? | Nerdrum, Hicks and Tuv
01:16:37
The Art of Fiction | Using Ayn Rand's Ideas to Become a Good Storyteller
01:36:22
Making Dystopia: James Stevens Curl Exposes Totalitarian Modernism and the Falsification of History
01:32:59
Sturla Ellingvåg on Vikings, Norse Myths, Genetic Memory & Connecting the Longer Lines in History
01:14:03
Employing Symbols in Paintings - What to Do and Avoid to Make a Credible Story on the Canvas
01:35:41
How Immanuel Kant Undercut Classical Culture and Led to Postmodernism | Stephen Hicks
01:28:30
Getting People Interested in Classical Architecture | Ruben Hanssen, Hoff-Andersen & Michael Diamant
01:25:59
How to Bring Back Beauty to a Confused Modern World | Michael Diamant & Carl Korsnes
01:05:41
Studying with Odd Nerdrum | Jannik Hösel & Hjalmar Hagelstam
01:02:02
In the Name of Melancholy | Odd Nerdrum & Jan-Ove Tuv
01:02:25
Why did Plato Wish to Exile Writers, Painters and Sculptors? | Einar Bøhn, Nerdrum & Tuv
01:39:59
Ruben Hanssen on How Urban Planning can be Beautiful, Transforming Dystopian Future into Bliss
01:24:53
Beyond Tragedy: How Masterworks Unite Calm-Inducing Mandalas, Opposites and "Divine Comedy"
01:11:19
Jannik Hösel on How He Taught Himself to Paint and His Take on the Role of Symbols in Storytelling
01:42:39
From Violent Rejection to Adoration | Öde Nerdrum Shares his Whole Beat Experience with Wim Winters
01:19:25
Single or Whole Beat? | Wim Winters Uncovers how Beethoven has been Performed WRONG for Centuries
01:05:40
Vitruvius, Vernacularity & Two Horses' Asses: How Exquisite Architecture is Always Based on Nature
01:15:37
Hjalmar Hagelstam on Odd Nerdrum, Rembrandt, Florence Academy and the Failure of Finnish Painting
01:01:02
Understanding the Gearing of Modernism: Vasily Kandinsky's Manifesto "On the Spiritual in Art"
01:31:23
Eric Norin on how the Architecture Uprising Movement is Changing the Political Landscape in Sweden
01:25:37
Aristotle's Ethics for Painters: How an Impersonal Relation to the World Keeps you Vigilant
01:16:26
Shaun Roberts on Teaching Painting, Qualities of Remington & Brouwer and Studying with Odd Nerdrum
54:50
Is Figurative Painting Coming Back or are we Trapped in Modernism? | David Molesky & Jan-Ove Tuv
01:21:50
Alexander Blechinger on Foundational Rules of Music, his Atomblitz-Ouvertüre and Harmonia Classica
01:02:03
The Folk Tales of Brothers Grimm: Not for Children! | Boris Koller & Jan-Ove Tuv
01:25:10
David Molesky on Apelles, Pliny and the Superiority of the Rough Painting Technique
51:59
"Art" or "Kitsch" as a Name for Classical Culture? | Jan-Ove Tuv & Martin Romberg
18:08
Why you should Stop Using Linseed Oil for Painting and Transition to Walnut Oil | David Molesky
01:17:41
Why Human Beings Primarily see the World through the Poetic Lens | Interview with William Heimdal
01:07:57
What Constitutes Good Landscape Painting? | Boris Koller & Jan-Ove Tuv
51:32
Three Stages of Painting: Egocentric, Geocentric & Heliocentric | Odd Nerdrum and Jan-Ove Tuv
29:38
Honoring our Ancestors and Building a Positive Alternative by Regarding History as Present
19:09
How the Kitsch Questionnaire Helps Kitschmen and Artists Clarify their Values
01:44:37
Michael Diamant on the Classical Architecture Takeover and the Utter Stupidity of the Modernists
01:29:43
A World Beyond Past and Future: Odd Nerdrum's Hopeful and Soothing Vision of Humanity
31:55
The Leonardo of Landscape Painting: Lars Hertervig and the Rejuvenation in Primal Images
59:24
Melisa Calabria on Studying with Ricardo Celma, Odd Nerdrum and Painting Narrative Self-Portraits
27:11
The Mysterious Portrait by Nicolai Gogol | A Wicked Story about the Social Greed of a Young Painter
21:36
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald | Recreating the Past in a Valley of Ashes
01:16:53
Alastair Blain on the Mythic Landscape, Poems of Ossian and the Joy of Grief
22:19
Jung’s Collective Unconscious, Participation in Eternity and Becoming a Whole Man
23:42
The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand | Aristotelian or Kant-Hegelian?
58:26
Nic Thurman on How Modernism Originated with Kant and Hegel and Why Kitsch is a Viable Alternative
24:14
Will a Laissez-faire Society Lead to the Best and Most Noble Achievements of Mankind?
31:54
The Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset | 📕 Book review