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In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Eco
In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in eco
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Pre
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philos
How to think about the contradictory figure of R. Murray Schafer? A renegade scholar who used sound
In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, wor
R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound o
Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global
Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound compos
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin.Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural t
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a ca
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out t
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 202
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adapt
In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grap
Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. T
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks display