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
Zachari Logan, "Green" (Radiant Press, 2025).
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet and visual artist Zachary Logan about his beautiful collection of poetry and art, Green (Radiant Press, 2025).
An exciting new collection o…
00:50:19 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Jake Kaner and Clive Edwards, "Conservation of Twentieth-Century Furniture" (Routledge, 2024)
Conservation of Twentieth-Century Furniture (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the materials and techniques that are encountered in furniture of this century.
After …
00:46:06 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Cat Dawson, "Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape" (MIT Press, 2025)
For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled both who is part of a culture and who is not, often …
00:39:40 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)
How can art shape historical memory and national identity? And how can cultural heritage and historical references be used to enact a vision of a nation? In Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts …
00:55:47 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
No-one can fail to notice how many statues of Great Men there are around London: stern politicians, military generals, imperial adventurers . . . But what about women?
As shown by Juliet Rix in Lond…
00:48:12 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Ignacio G. Galán, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design and furnishing practices. While the regime’s politi…
00:54:53 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Kirstie Macleod, "The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch" (Quickthorn, 2025)
The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch (Quickthorn, 2025), shares the deeper story of The Red Dress, its embroiderers and Kirstie Macleod's own story whilst opening up the wider issues the garment pr…
00:30:31 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Rhythm, Exorcism, and Confrontation with Lexi Eikelboom
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lexi Eikelboom.
Dr Lexi Eikelboom is both a visual artist and a scholar of philosophical theology. Her academic work analyses aesthetic concepts such as rhythm and…
00:34:10 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Illustrating Punk
In the sixth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell talks with John Holmstrom a comic illustrator and founder of Punk magazine. In the early 1970s, Holmstrom moved from suburban Connecticut to…
00:42:57 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)
Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of …
01:01:08 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing (Oxford University Press, 2025) answers this question by being the first book-length study of three late modernist women's write…
01:00:09 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Today I’m speaking with Bernd Roeck about his book, The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance (Princeton University Press, 2025). Bernd is professor of modern history at the Universi…
00:52:00 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Yevgenia Nayberg, "A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me" (Neal Porter Books, 2024)
A young girl forms a special connection to the modernist painter Florine Stettheimer, and imagines herself joining in on Florine’s exciting life.When a young girl visits the museum, she finds an unex…
00:42:22 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025)
Andreas Beyer joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist (Reaktion, 2025). Benvenuto Cellini was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, r…
00:43:53 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been cent…
00:49:32 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers…
00:52:51 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
How can cultural organisations better support diversity? In Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector antonio c. cuyler, Professor of Music in Entrepreneurship & Leadership and Faculty A…
00:40:37 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Christianity is often considered prevalent when it comes to defining the key values of late antique society, whereas 'feeling connected to the Roman past' is commonly regarded as an add-on for cultiv…
00:44:01 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman.
Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman works as a teacher and researcher in philosophy in Naarm/Melbourne. His work is primarily focussed on the intersect…
00:33:32 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
How are working class women represented in contemporary culture? In Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge, 2025), Katie Beswick, a Senior Lecturer in Arts Managemen…
00:41:20 |
Sat 31 May 2025
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