Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJulia Walker, "Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 135
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the ci…
4 years, 2 months ago
Andrea Karnes, "Women Painting Women" (Delmonico Books, 2022)
Episode 111
Andrea Karnes' book Women Painting Women (Delmonico Books, 2022) documents a wide-ranging exhibit inclusive of women as both the makers and subjects …
4 years, 2 months ago
Sara Farrington, "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press, 2021)
Episode 106
Sara Farrington's The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press, 2021) is a collection of interviews with a host o…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jarrod Hore, "Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 104
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According …
4 years, 2 months ago
Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang, "Shelf Documents: Art Library as Practice" (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 2021)
Episode 112
How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In Shelf Documents: Art Lib…
4 years, 2 months ago
Kajri Jain, "Gods in the Time of Democracy" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 200
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice th…
4 years, 2 months ago
Alan John Ainsworth, "Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960" (Intellect, 2022)
Episode 156
Alan John Ainsworth's book Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 (Intellect, 2022) explores the work of a wide range of American…
4 years, 2 months ago
Cole Roskam, "Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 456
China’s urban landscapes are full of radically different architectural styles which memorialise different eras in the country’s political past, from …
4 years, 3 months ago
Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
Episode 39
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tac…
4 years, 3 months ago
Monuments
Episode 81
Erin L. Thompson talks about monuments, and their role in American public life. Public art intervenes in directly in politics, shaping social behavio…
4 years, 3 months ago