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Art
Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.
March 19, 2026
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall is widely recognized as the preeminent Jewish artist of the 20th century, but little is known of his work to preserve Jewish culture. In …
March 15, 2026
On the Edge
On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean by Dr Giorgios Boudalis (Legacy Press, 2022). The term endbands desig…
March 6, 2026
Adventurous Vents
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy s…
March 1, 2026
Textures of Mourning
Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply …
March 1, 2026
Visualizing Devotion
Textiles, embroidered with religious imagery, express lay piety in public and private shrinesThis beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devot…
February 27, 2026
Invisible Hands
In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the internation…
February 22, 2026
British Blonde
In the 1950s, American glamour swept into a war-torn Britain as part of a broader transatlantic exchange of culture and commodities. But in this proce…
February 16, 2026
Post-Soviet Graffiti
Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gra…
February 9, 2026
Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages
Dr. Lucy Donkin’s Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2022) illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in whi…
February 6, 2026
At the Crossroads of the Senses
Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and …
February 5, 2026
Wisdom of the Goddess
Hillary Langberg discusses Wisdom of the Goddess, an online exhibition she curated for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art featuring nine g…
January 26, 2026
The Empress and I
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi g…
January 23, 2026
Art Cure
Is culture good for you? In Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (Cornerstone Press, 2026) Daisy Fancourt, a Professor of Psychobiology & …
January 13, 2026
Unruly Comparison
How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison…
January 11, 2026
Plenty for All
Rick Fröberg was an accomplished artist and musician born in Southern California who spent most of his early creative years in San Diego before moving…
January 10, 2026
The Story of the Interior
From traditional nomadic dwellings to state-of-the-art airports, through monumental temples and Baroque palaces to high-rise apartments and high-fashi…
January 6, 2026
Psychonauts
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, a…
January 4, 2026
A Biography of a Mountain
Mount Rushmore is something of an American Rorschach test. Some look at the monument and see American patriotic ideals carved into a mountainside. Oth…
January 1, 2026
What the Greeks Did for Us
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of t…
December 27, 2025
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by David Newheiser and Lexi Eikelboom, i…