Welcome, friends, to It’s Just Art: everyone’s toolkit for artful conversations. In this podcast, we seek to bridge the divide between people and works of art by exploring the ways in which we connect with art every day. Here, we share with you the skills and vocabulary—what we call our “toolkit”—that we have developed over years of studying and teaching art history. We discuss artforms of all kinds, from oil paintings and street art to crafts and music.

We believe that art is evidence of humanity and that making art is the most human thing that we do. Art is all around us; it does not exist only in museums or galleries. You don’t need a degree in fine arts or art history to know what makes an artwork beautiful or important. It’s not foreign or exclusive or untouchable. It’s just art.