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Art January 13, 2022

A Philosophy of the Art School

Michael Newall

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between 'you too are an artist' and 'abandon all hope you who enter here' would …

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Anthropology January 12, 2022

Becoming Palestine

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

Gil Z. Hochberg

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order …
LGBTQ+ Studies January 12, 2022

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

Andrew J. Kunka

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South Carolina …
Critical Theory January 11, 2022

Reimagining the Creative Industries

Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care

Miranda Campbell

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can we make creative industries fair and inclusive? In Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge, 2021), Miranda Campbell, an associate professor in the School …
Art January 6, 2022

The Play in the System

The Art of Parasitical Resistance

Anna Watkins Fisher

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the …
Art January 5, 2022

Tree of Pearls

The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr

D. Fairchild Ruggles

Hosted by Tanja Tolar
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his concubine, was manumitted, became his wife …
Art December 21, 2021

From Granada to Berlin

The Alhambra Cupola

Anna McSweeney

Hosted by Tanja Tolar
Part of the series CAHIM Connecting Art Histories in the Museum, Anna McSweeney's book From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola (Kettler Verlag, 2020) is the story of an extraordinary survivor …
Architecture December 9, 2021

Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms

Archi-Tectonics

Winka Dubbeldam

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced, changing …
Intellectual History December 8, 2021

Crafting Enlightenment

Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks

Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (Voltaire Foundation, 2021) argues that artisans of the long eighteenth-century on four different …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 11, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 20

Maira Kalman, Artist

Maira Kalman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira has …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 4, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 18

Anna Condo, Artist

Anna Condo

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Anna is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York City. A trained actor and film director, in 1998 she published her …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 21, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 14

Sarah Meyohas, Artist

Sarah Meyohas

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Sarah Meyohas is a French-American conceptual artist working across media and emerging technologies. Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, the stock market, virtual reality, and augmented reality are materials she molds into visions …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 9, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 11

Youssef Nabil, Artist

Youssef Nabil

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Youssef Nabil is a photographer and filmmaker who combines the artistic and cultural traditions of his native Egypt and his adopted homes of New York City and Paris to create …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 25, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 6

Ross Bleckner, Painter

Ross Bleckner

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Ross Bleckner is a painter who has combines gorgeous art with concrete political commitment. In the 1980s he was one of the first artists to tackle and address the AIDS …
American West January 10, 2022

Becoming Mary Sully

Toward an American Indian Abstract

Philip J. Deloria

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All of these facets of her …
Architecture January 7, 2022

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance

The Varieties of Architectural Experience

David Karmon

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines …
SSEAC Stories January 7, 2022

Export China

Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia

Alex Burchmore

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In 2021, a team of divers sponsored by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute surveyed two historic shipwrecks discovered in the Singapore Strait, working for several months to bring their submerged cargos …
Intellectual History January 5, 2022

The Forces of Form in German Modernism

Malika Maskarinec

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe were times of intense technological, social and political change and transformation, and so it’s no surprise that much of the …
Buddhist Studies January 3, 2022

A Buddhist Sensibility

Aesthetic Education at Tibet`s Mindröling Monastery

Dominique Townsend

Hosted by Jue Liang
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize …
Art December 30, 2021

Banksy: Completed

Carol Diehl

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared …