Art audiobooks

Drama

By: John Lithgow

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

""A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances.""
—Steve Martin Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in Drama—an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one of America’s most beloved actors. Lithgow pays tribute to his father,... Read more

How I Got This Way

By: Regis Philbin

Narrated by: Regis Philbin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a beloved morning-show host (Live with Regis and Kelly), a nighttime game-show host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and also as a fixture on national and local late-night talk shows. The irrepressible... Read more

Dropped Names

By: Frank Langella

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured... Read more

The Curtain

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.”In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera... Read more

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.

By: Sam Wasson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more

Mommy IQ

By: Rosie Pope

Narrated by: Rosie Pope, Rick Adamson, Kathleen McInerney & ...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie Pope, pregnancy expert, maternity fashion designer, and star of Bravo's hit show Pregnant in Heels offers an all-encompassing guide to pregnancy.What's your Mommy IQ?Every mom-to-be wants a perfect, healthy pregnancy. But as the nine months start to fly by, it's easy for new parents to become overwhelmed and intimidated by the mountains of... Read more

Hopper

By: Tom Folsom

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

James Dean to Hopper
"I saw what you did today. Today you were great."Jack Nicholson to Hopper
"We're geniuses, you know that?
Isn't it great to be a genius?"The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The... Read more

Last Night at the Viper Room

By: Gavin Edwards

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for... Read more

Dirty Daddy

By: Bob Saget

Narrated by: Bob Saget

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up routines, comedy specials, and outrageously... Read more

Drinking and Dating

By: Brandi Glanville

Narrated by: Brandi Glanville

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of her New York Times bestselling book Drinking and Tweeting, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville takes readers on a wild ride through her dating life in this highly-entertaining relationship book.Drinking and Dating chronicles Glanville’s misadventures stumbling through today’s dating world. From social media... Read more

Own It!

By: Tabatha Coffey

Narrated by: Tabatha Coffey

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the straight-shooting breakout star of Bravo’s Tabatha Takes Over and author of It’s Not Really About the Hair, Tabatha Coffey shares the secrets of her success in Own It!On television, Coffey is known for using tough love to overhaul failing businesses and help owners take charge of their future. In Own It!, Coffey takes her trademark... Read more

American Titan

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, “the Duke,” John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc Eliot digs deep beneath the myth in this revealing look at the most... Read more

Mozart

By: Marcia Davenport

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had... Read more

Reason in Art

By: George Santayana

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosopher sees art as part of the broader human context, concluding that art prepares “the world to... Read more

Life after Television

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkably prescient book, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and... Read more

Picasso

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and... Read more

The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism... Read more

Portrait of an Artist

By: Laurie Lisle

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most original painters America has ever produced. Her vivid visual vocabulary—sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth—has had a profound and lasting influence on American art in this century.Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, O'Keeffe had a... Read more

The Renaissance

By: Walter Pater

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater's compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the "holy writ of beauty." It was Pater's cry of "art for art's sake" that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art... Read more

Rodin

By: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more

Vincent van Gogh

By: Julius Meier-Graefe

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh.Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a... Read more

How to Watch TV News

By: Neil Postman & Steve Powers

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve... Read more

If This Was Happiness

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s... Read more

Living Biographies of Great Painters

By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their... Read more