Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTheresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
Episode 32
Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 19
Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty for Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. …
1 year, 10 months ago
Aesthetic Conversions
Episode 150
Paloma Checa-Gismero talks about the many processes of re-evaluation, re-contextualization, and re-animation that designates an object as art. To ill…
1 year, 10 months ago
Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
Episode 147
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museu…
1 year, 10 months ago
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 51
A. L. McClanan's Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art (Reaktion, 2024) is a fascinating exploration of the mythical creature's …
1 year, 10 months ago
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
Episode 161
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled life of the Jewish-Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 2
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including painti…
1 year, 11 months ago
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 2
Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) uncovers the enigmatic life and work of Ilia Zdanevi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 117
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department store…
1 year, 11 months ago
Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
Episode 18
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters h…
1 year, 11 months ago