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
Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succ…
00:59:33 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art be…
00:58:16 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encourag…
00:47:25 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to politi…
01:04:02 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Go…
00:55:30 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from …
00:53:45 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, offers …
01:27:10 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) balances several histories at once through the story of a single commodity. Rather than…
01:00:47 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
Carla Diana, "My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human" (Harvard Business, 2021)
Today I talked to Carla Diana about her new book My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).
Carla Diana is a robot designer responsibl…
00:34:56 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Marisol D'Andrea, "The Power of Artistic Thinking: Think Like an Artist and Innovate" (CGRN, 2019)
In The Power of Artistic Thinking: Think Like an Artist and Innovate (Common Ground, 2019; 2021 paperback), Marisol D’Andrea, PhD explores the potential of artistic thinking and shares practical guid…
00:41:52 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongoing project that investigates the politics of aerial s…
00:50:16 |
Tue 25 May 2021
Nicole Tersigni, "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020)
Today I talked to Nicole Tersigni about her book Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020).
Nicole Tersigni is a comedic writer experienced in improve comedy and women’s advocacy. She liv…
00:25:38 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Simon Unwin, "Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making" (Routledge, 2020)
Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, i…
00:41:09 |
Mon 17 May 2021
Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights req…
01:22:38 |
Mon 17 May 2021
Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists, and the first modern war the US didn't wi…
00:33:07 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group o…
00:38:35 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can we learn from how these e…
00:51:00 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, was communicated to the general public by a handfu…
01:03:05 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materia…
01:03:27 |
Mon 10 May 2021
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Queen's U…
00:46:41 |
Thu 06 May 2021
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