Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
Episode 105
The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember t…
4 years, 4 months ago
Fleur Watson, "The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 73
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exh…
4 years, 4 months ago
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 146
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let […
4 years, 4 months ago
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Episode 104
In When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven University Press, 2022), Dr. Andrew Shortland and Dr. Patr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Realism
Episode 50
William Ghosh talks to Saronik about Realism, and how it can both be subtly conservative and effectively radical, depending on its use. He takes us t…
4 years, 4 months ago
On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism
Episode 99
Rima Fujita was born in Tokyo and now resides in Southern California. She graduated from Parsons School of Design with her B.F.A. and has exhibited h…
4 years, 4 months ago
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 102
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire, in particular, the sale and exchange …
4 years, 5 months ago
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Episode 604
Dr. Christopher Gilbert, Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, has a new book that examines the understanding of American national ch…
4 years, 5 months ago
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
Episode 101
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or …
4 years, 5 months ago
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
Episode 100
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.
Venus, maiden, wife, mother…
4 years, 5 months ago