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EPISODE · May 2, 2025 · 39 MIN

Dispatch from a Humanities Field in Crisis | with Darby English

from Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast · host David Zwirner

With higher education facing existential threat under the current administration, Helen Molesworth speaks to art historian, critic, and educator Darby English about the difficulties of understanding this precise moment and the importance of discourse, independent thought, and history. Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at University of Chicago and the author of numerous books, including Among Others: Blackness at MoMA (2019), 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (2016) and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (2007).

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