Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 477
A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema—and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre—Tsai…
3 years, 10 months ago
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
Episode 478
The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (191…
3 years, 10 months ago
Edward S. Cooke, "Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 127
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses ar…
3 years, 10 months ago
Hettie Judah, "Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones" (Penguin, 2022)
Episode 1284
Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones (John Murray/Penguin, 2022) by Hettie Judah is a beautifully …
3 years, 10 months ago
Andrew Spira, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 126
When Kasimir’s Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, …
3 years, 10 months ago
Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)
Episode 474
The two parallel Palace Museums in Beijing and Taiwan, and their separate collections of thousands of precious artworks and artifacts from imperial t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation'" (Roli Books, 2022)
Episode 168
Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy's Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation' (Roli Books, 2022) examines Motherland, an important series of p…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 337
From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth: The Art and Texture of Bl…
3 years, 11 months ago
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 146
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside …
3 years, 11 months ago
Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)
Episode 69
Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London’s iconic ‘Tube’ map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, d…
3 years, 11 months ago