Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member!
It would be hard to overstate the importance of culture. It teaches us, heals us, rips us apart and
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it
In The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zon
On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Tamar Herzig, Professor of History at
In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ron
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. A
Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics i
In What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke Uni
The prolific artistic production of Vesna Kittelson always maintains autobiographical connections: h
How has social media changed inequality in the cultural industries? In The Politics of Expertise in
Nozomi Naoi’s Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan (University of Washin
In Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin (Yale University Press, 2019), Linda Goddard investiga
In American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2
Junior Tomlin: Flyer & Cover Art (Velocity Press, 2020) showcases the artwork of Junior Tomlin.
In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Emily Wallace, author and illustrator of the new bo
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in publ
For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided st
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Ov
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal syst
