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Art
Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.
October 8, 2024
Comics and Pop Culture
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster suc…
October 7, 2024
For Some Odd Reason
Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grapples with issues of communication and longing—them…
October 7, 2024
Black Expression and White Generosity
In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey thro…
September 29, 2024
Listenings
Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illu…
September 26, 2024
A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…
September 21, 2024
Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury
Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edinb…
September 4, 2024
Game Poems
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poem…
September 4, 2024
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these q…
September 3, 2024
Rubens in Repeat
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…
September 2, 2024
What is Radio Art?
What is radio art? It’s a rather unfamiliar term in the United States, but in other countries, it’s a something of an artistic tradition. Today’s gues…
August 24, 2024
Provincials
Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmak…
August 23, 2024
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can p…
August 20, 2024
Craft as a Creative Industry
How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media and Dir…
August 17, 2024
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's h…
August 12, 2024
Gold, Silver, and Bronze
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Yuri Cath. Dr Yuri Cath's work explores epistemological questions about the nature and sources of different kinds …
August 11, 2024
Philanthropy in the Arts
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re…
August 8, 2024
Faces of God
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South As…
August 3, 2024
Small Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusing…
July 26, 2024
The Women of 'Little Paris'
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar …
July 25, 2024
Modernism at the Beach
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal C…