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In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took
In Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies (Penn State University Press), Christian Kleinbub challenges the n
In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of
In The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2019), An
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape archi
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adapt
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?Listen in as I discuss thi
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a compr
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introductio
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New Yor
The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and r
Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the earl
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Le
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or
Can care be enacted through art? Inside a cathedral, staff members from a nursing home work with an
Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018 (Intellect Books, 2019) collects more
Alex Berke's Beautiful Symmetry (MIT Press, 2020) is both a fascinating book and a concept -- it's l
In our most recent public memory, images of the Prophet Muhammad have caused a great deal of controv
Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also f
The fact that secrecy and the concealment of information is important in today’s China is hardly a s
