DecArts

Every week I interview and have a casual conversation about the amazing world of Decorative Arts, etc.

Design Visual Arts Arts

Update frequency: every 10 days
Average duration: 28 minutes
Episodes: 26
Years Active: 2017 - 2018

Weeksville Heritage Center

Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, …

00:31:34 | Wed 23 May 2018

Exhibition Preview of 'Saturated'

I interviewed Kara Nichols about Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color which starts this Friday, May 11 and runs through Jan. 13 at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. Kara worke…

00:35:19 | Fri 11 May 2018

Droogies and Devotchkas

This week JT McParlin is back on the podcast to talk about Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971). As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

00:40:07 | Sat 10 Mar 2018

Open the Pod Bay Doors

This week JT McParlin was on the podcast, he is a Masters candidate at the Parsons Cooper Hewitt Program, and we are talking about the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). We were pla…

00:22:59 | Thu 22 Feb 2018

Occupation: The Housewife

Kayla Seifert (from the Contemporary Painting episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book and the transformation after WWI when cookbooks began to b…

00:15:04 | Thu 15 Feb 2018

Welcome to the Freak Show

Sylvia Ferguson (from the Henry Dreyfuss episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about entertainment, ethnography, and eugenic displays at the World’s Fair. As usual all images will be up on th…

00:25:27 | Thu 01 Feb 2018

The Jogbra

Sydney Friedman (from the Bersa pattern episode) is back this week to talk about the Jogbra. Which came about at a time when Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb ran in the 1966 Boston Marathon when women were …

00:28:51 | Thu 25 Jan 2018

Bandboxes

The DecArts podcast is back! I am excited to start the year off with an object. Hannah Winiker comes on to talk about bandboxes. For anyone who isn’t familiar with bandboxes they are functional and d…

00:20:09 | Thu 18 Jan 2018

Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, the Body, and Gender

This week I interview Noelle Kichura, a Masters candidate at the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt History of Design and Curatorial program, about her proposed thesis.

Here are some of the links for the videos an…

00:42:07 | Thu 09 Nov 2017

SNCC - Design as a Means to bring about Social Change

This week I talked to Molly Martien, a Masters Candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program for History of Design and Curatorial Studies. She wrote a paper that she will be presenting at the MAPACA…

00:26:34 | Thu 19 Oct 2017

Alvar Aalto

I talk with Khyati Sheth to talk about the Alvar Aalto - Art and the Modern Form exhibition, which was at the Ateneum Museum this summer.THE ALVAR AALTO MUSEUM: http://www.ateneum.fi/nayttelyt/alvar-…

00:42:34 | Thu 12 Oct 2017

Stig Lindberg and the Bersa pattern

This week Sydney Friedman and I talked about Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) and the Bersa pattern. This is part one of a two part series that focuses on Scandinavian design. Check out the pictures for thi…

00:23:16 | Thu 05 Oct 2017

Fringe Exhibition at Kent State University Museum

This week Kara Nichols talks about the exhibition Fringe Elements at Kent State University Museum which runs from July 2017 to July 2018. Follow the DecArts podcast on Twitter @DecArtspodcastEXHIBIT:…

00:27:22 | Thu 28 Sep 2017

Henry Dreyfuss and Post-War America

This week Sylvia Ferguson talks about American, Industrial Designer, Henry Dreyfuss and consumerism in post-war America. Sidenotes: Gayle Davidson was Sylvia’s professor and the name on the sale of t…

00:22:36 | Thu 07 Sep 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright, MoMa, and Taliesin

This week Annaleigh is on the podcast to talk about her time out at Taliesin this summer and the most current exhibit on at MoMa, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive https://www.moma.org…

00:26:56 | Thu 31 Aug 2017

Material Culture of Historic Southern Homes

This week Hannah Winiker is on the podcast talking about how she preserved the stories of southern families through their collections of antiques such as paintings, furniture, silver, textiles, and p…

00:21:23 | Thu 17 Aug 2017

Archizoom and Radical Italian Designers in the 1960's

This week I sat down with Trang Tran to talk about Archizoom and Radical Italian Designers in the 1960’s. EXHIBIT: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/ettore-sottsass1968 BOOK: https:/…

00:23:54 | Thu 10 Aug 2017

Milk Marketing

This week I had a conversation about advertising and packaging in the dairy world with Rachel Hannicut. Please excuse the technical difficulties, it was a rough Thursday for electronics.

00:23:16 | Thu 03 Aug 2017

Review of the Christian Dior Exhibition

Brooklyn Gallagher (@brooklynngallagher) and I sat down for a new extension of the DecArts podcast, which is the tipsy Thursday episode (created while in Paris). Basically Brooklyn and I did a versio…

00:28:42 | Thu 27 Jul 2017

Luxury Objects in French 18th C. Interiors

This week I am broadcasting from Paris and was able to sit down with Adèle Bourbonne to talk about a couple of her classes on French 18th century interior luxury trends.MOBILIER NATIONAL: http://www.…

00:22:53 | Thu 20 Jul 2017

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