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Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects
Today we speak to Hildegard Westerkamp, the pioneering composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. T
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cul
A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of An
William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Rei
Across Iron Age Central Eurasia, non-sedentary people created, viewed, and considered animal-style i
Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023) tells
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spe
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation
Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge
Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty
Paloma Checa-Gismero talks about the many processes of re-evaluation, re-contextualization, and re-a
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her fin
A. L. McClanan's Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art (Reaktion, 2024) is a fa
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled li
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its
Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) unc
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history
