New Books in Art
Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 969
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Art Auctions and Data Science
What does data science tell us about art auctions?
This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open acc…
00:38:28 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
Lance Esplund, "The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art" (Basic, 2018)
What is art, and who gets to define it? Museums have long staked a claim on knowing what to show, but there has always been a wide range of how viewers engage with art. There is also a wide range of …
01:01:59 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim…
00:45:44 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo.
This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue “C…
00:13:41 |
Sat 03 Jun 2023
A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia
Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning Fire, which documents Yugoslavia's cultural output th…
00:51:10 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
How can sociology help us understand art and music? In The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), the editor Lisa McCormick, a senior lect…
00:45:15 |
Sun 28 May 2023
Publishing in Art, Architecture and Visual Culture
This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in …
00:55:01 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
In this episode, I was joined by Nicholas Scott Baker to discuss his book, In Fortune’s Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Professor Baker…
00:58:08 |
Fri 26 May 2023
The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain offered by the collection of artworks, essays, and…
00:41:00 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Jonathan Adeyemi, "Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
How does the art market work? In Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Jonathan Adeyemi, who holds a PhD from, and was formerly Asso…
00:35:39 |
Sun 21 May 2023
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contempo…
00:48:11 |
Sat 20 May 2023
Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory
An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosophe…
01:35:28 |
Fri 19 May 2023
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun…
00:57:08 |
Fri 19 May 2023
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her forthcoming book with writer, educator and philosopher…
00:44:15 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)
In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), distinguished art historian Pamela M. Lee poses fundamen…
01:11:24 |
Tue 16 May 2023
Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines the ways in which exhibition…
01:01:19 |
Sat 13 May 2023
Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the original shrouds used to…
00:56:51 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp read from Saturation, a book that offers an analysis of racial representation and controversy in the art world.
Controversies involving race and the art world are of…
00:25:04 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukr…
00:31:54 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Barbara Penner et al., "Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused—superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Obje…
01:02:27 |
Mon 08 May 2023
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