Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member!
The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to b
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Angloph
Working across and among languages, media, and art forms, Caroline Bergvall’s writing takes form as
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instag
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) exp
Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, a
The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr.
Artist Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the Long Island suburbs. His pai
In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide
Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929. In 1938 he and his family fled to Brooklyn, where he attende
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientifi
Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters (Rutgers UP, 2020) examines The
Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josi
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip (Ohio State UP, 2024) is the f
In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 (Brill, 2019), Mirjam Rajner traces the liv
Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Associate Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee on her new boo
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr John Noel Viaña.Dr John Noel Viaña’s work is focused on the socia
Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the first to
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of th
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeki
