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This is an ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperiali
On the podcast today, I am joined by Mai Corlin, who is researcher at the department of cross-cultur
"Fascism" is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots
Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labour on which it depended were fundamental to the politi
Object Lessons is a Bloomsbury series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
In this episode of High Theory, Matt Seybold tells us about Criticism, the glue that holds the brick
The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge Univers
Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on inf
Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that m
Sabina Andron's book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2024) focuses o
An essential—and monumental—member of the Sonoran Desert ecosystem, the saguaro cactus has become th
Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? How do artists make sense o
Jana Byars speaks with Catherine Powell-Warren about Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection
In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taki
Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape (U Michigan Press, 2020) studies an
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of
The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Times (Reaktion, 2023) is a unique journey through stained-gl
Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In
Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, com
