Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArt for War: Heritage Looting, Blood Antiquities, and the International Fight Against Terrorism Financing with Costanza Musu (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 1426
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displa…
23 hours ago
Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?
Episode 1425
When Neil Selkirk first saw one of Arbus’s photographs as a young man at someone’s house in London, it almost sent him screaming into the street. Uns…
2 days, 23 hours ago
The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art with Katrin Kogman-Appel (Bodleian Library, 2023)
Episode 1424
Katrin Kogman-Appel is a professor of Medieval Jewish history with research focusing on book culture, readers, and reading practices in medieval Euro…
1 week, 1 day ago
"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hernández and Baruch Vergara
Episode 1423
This is the first episode in a series that explores the intersections of science and the humanities in university life. In today’s conversation, Jef…
1 week, 4 days ago
Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Illinois Press, 2026)
Episode 1422
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by para…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Connoisseur: A Cultural History with Peter Burke (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 1421
Eminent historian Peter Burke joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, The Connoisseur: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2026), considering the art con…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Glenn Peers, "Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)
Episode 1420
Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Ar: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) represents a risky experiment in art-his…
1 month ago
Joe Jackson, "Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 1419
Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, …
1 month ago
Marjolijn Bol, "The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 1063
Panel painters in both the middle ages and the fifteenth century created works that evoke the luster of precious stones, the sheen of polished gold a…
1 month, 1 week ago
Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)
Episode 1062
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. In this interview, Morteza Hajizad…
1 month, 2 weeks ago