Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGlenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (Hauser & Wirth, 2024)
Episode 516
An expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today This…
1 year, 2 months ago
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 952
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 950
'Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)' by Hannah Star Rogers
When I sat down with Hannah Star Rogers to discuss her new book…
1 year, 2 months ago
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
Episode 670
As a Jewish and openly gay artist, Cagli became the target of virulent attacks, especially after Italy promulgated its racial laws in 1938. In respon…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jirí Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 237
Jiří Anger is a scholar, archivist, and videographic critic devoted, as he says in this interview, to "making weird shapes shine." In this episode of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 575
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Ki…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
Episode 947
Grant Us Eyes is a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Revi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
Episode 946
Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot…
1 year, 2 months ago
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025)
Episode 544
hat is the relationship between culture and trade? In Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America Sarah E. K. Smith, an Associ…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
Episode 944
From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throug…
1 year, 2 months ago