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Today I’m talking with Lynn Gamwell about Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton Univers
Roberta Wue‘s new book brings readers into the world of late Qing Shanghai, a center of art, culture
What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the g
Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to as
Ink landscape painting was distinctive to the Song dynasty, and the Northern Song period was a speci
How has American cultural and artistic policy changed over the last 25 years? Performing Policy: How
As demographic trends continue to mark the so-called “Latinization” of the U.S., pundits across vari
While many are familiar with the call for ‘One Love’ from the music of Bob Marley they more than lik
Prague, according to Derek Sayer, is the place “in which modernist dreams have time and again unrave
Jonathan M. Reynolds‘s new book looks carefully at how photographers, architects, and others wrestle
Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the rela
As Meryle Secrest notes in the introduction to her new book, Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography (Knopf,
Greg Barnhisel‘s new book, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (Co
Jerzy Grotowsky and Tadeusz Kantor were influential in avant-garde theater in the West in the 1960s
That games, particularly video games, could be viewed as art should come as no surprise. And yet, a
Reading Winnie Wong's new book on image production in Dafen village will likely change the way you t
Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press,
In A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State University Pre
Kristina Kleutghen‘s beautiful new book offers a fascinating window into the culture of illusion in
Ann C. Pizzorusso‘s new book is a wonderfully creative and gorgeously illustrated meeting of geology