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Back to SearchAlex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 78
Alex Nathanson's book A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) so…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mrill Ingram, "Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth" (Temple UP, 2022)
Episode 74
How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces—from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways—are created and maintained…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 136
By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Pamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 313
In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of underst…
4 years, 1 month ago
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
Episode 116
In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film portr…
4 years, 1 month ago
On Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"
Episode 24
The Manifesto of Futurism was published in 1909, on the front page of Le Figaro, the oldest daily newspaper in France. Its author was Filippo Tomasso…
4 years, 1 month ago
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Episode 175
Rachel Quist specializes in East Asian Buddhist imagery with focuses in pre-modern Japan and China. Her research centers on questions of interaction …
4 years, 1 month ago
Jos van Beurden, "Inconvenient Heritage: Colonial Collections and Restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Episode 1258
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a mult…
4 years, 1 month ago
Karen Archey, "After Institutions" (Les presses du réel, 2022)
Episode 115
Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Selene Wendt, "Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories Through Contemporary Art" (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021)
Episode 114
In Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021), art historian…
4 years, 2 months ago