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In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timot
“In Mao’s China, to curate revolution was to make it material.”Denise Y. Ho’s new book explores this
In The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader (University of California Press, 2021), Jordana Moore Saggese pro
From his home in Connecticut, Ran Oron observed and drew a pair of ospreys, a couple of birds of pre
Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. Ho
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this conc
Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 201
Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge,
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of co
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke make
Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press;
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purpos
Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that compute
Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable--angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and I
