Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBradley 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, 3 months ago
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 943
In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national specta…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 102
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tra…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 81
Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 68
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, ro…
1 year, 3 months ago
Zachari Logan, "Green" (Radiant Press, 2025).
Episode 939
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet and visual artist Zachary Logan about his beautiful collection of poetry and art, Green (Ra…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jake Kaner and Clive Edwards, "Conservation of Twentieth-Century Furniture" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 8
Conservation of Twentieth-Century Furniture (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the materials and techniques that are…
1 year, 3 months ago
Cat Dawson, "Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 937
For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled bo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 936
How can art shape historical memory and national identity? And how can cultural heritage and historical references be used to enact a vision of a nat…
1 year, 3 months ago
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
Episode 176
No-one can fail to notice how many statues of Great Men there are around London: stern politicians, military generals, imperial adventurers . . . But…
1 year, 3 months ago