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Athenaeum Review
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Conversations about the arts and humanities from the journal Athenaeum Review (athenaeumreview.org).
Episodes
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Petrarch’s Confessional Poetry: A Conversation with A. M. Juster
Today, we welcome A.M. Juster, whose new book is Canzoniere: A New Translation, with an introduction by Andrew Frisardi (Liveright). In this episode: (1:00) Where does Petrarch fit in literary history? From the medieval to the Renaissance (4:50) Petrarch vs. Shakespeare (8:59) Confessional poetry...
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Aesthetics: A Conversation with Tyler Cowen
Today, a discussion with Tyler Cowen about aesthetics in general, and new aesthetics in particular! More Information A Call for New Aesthetics, from Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen New Aesthetics grantees Stripe CEO Announces New Aesthetics Grant Recipients Marginal Revolution and Conversations...
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Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: A Conversation with David Carrier
In this episode, philosopher and art critic David Carrier discusses a new survey exhibition of the artist Marcel Duchamp, the subject of his review in the forthcoming issue of Athenaeum Review. More information: Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (April 11 to August 22, 2026)...
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Jefferson Lives! A Conversation with Daniel Asia
In this episode, the composer and critic Daniel Asia discusses Jefferson Lives! , a new chamber opera from composer Joshua Daniel Nichols and librettist and director Stefanos Koroneos, that explores John Adams’ deathbed reflections about the founding of the United States. More information:...
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Roy Lichtenstein in Dallas. The Literature of Masculinity. A Conversation with Sean Hooks
A conversation with author and critic Sean Hooks. Part one: Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio, at the Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center "Roy Lichtenstein show reveals the artistry behind pop art simplicity" (Dallas Morning News / archive link) Part two: "Put Your Kids to Work," a...
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Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art — A Conversation with Charissa Terranova and Ken Rinaldo
Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art , curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova and featuring the work of Ken Rinaldo and Amy M. Youngs, is at the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas from February 7 to April 28, 2026.
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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found — A Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, is published by W. W. Norton.
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Yayoi Kusama's Pumpkin Infinity Room: A Conversation with Vivian Li
Vivian Li, the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins us to discuss All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room now on view at the DMA. In this conversation: the background to Kusama's work; its popularity with the…
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The Book of Yerba Mate: A Conversation with Christine Folch
Christine Folch is the author of The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History (Princeton University Press). In this conversation: the beverage's historical journey, cultural context and drinking experience; its economic and political context; the question of fair trade and ethical consumption;...
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Dave Hickey and The Nature of Things: A Conversation with Tessa Granowski
Tessa Granowski is the owner and founder of Nature of Things, a new art gallery in Dallas. In this conversation: Tessa's background and influences; Lucretius and De rerum natura; reflections on the Dallas art world; the gallery's first show, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: an homage to Dave…
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Border Documents: A Conversation with Arturo Soto
Border Documents is a new photobook from Arturo Soto, a photographer, writer and educator. It is "a personal archive of ordinary events that reveals how emotions become attached to public spaces." Having grown up listening to his father’s stories about his youth in the twin cities of Juárez...
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Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields—A Conversation with Leigh Arnold
A conversation with Dr. Leigh Arnold, curator of Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
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The Holocaust Art Restitution Project: A Conversation with Marc Masurovsky
Marc Masurovsky co-founded the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) in September 1997. In this conversation: how the project began; the case of Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally at MoMA in New York; current challenges and opportunities in art restitution; ethics and strategy; the role of the...
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War and Truth: A Conversation with Thomas G. Palaima
In this conversation: war poems by Walt Whitman, Yehuda Amichai, and Siegfried Sassoon; Jonathan Shay's books Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, how veterans view the representation of war in Saving...
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The Matter With Things: A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Julia Friedman
Iain McGilchrist is the author of The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World and The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. He has said that "‘Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance…
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The Asian American Renaissance: A Conversation with Mai Wang
Mai Wang is an assistant professor of literature at UT Dallas, where she teaches Asian American and Chinese diasporic literature. Her first book project, The Asian American Renaissance, examines the imaginative alliances formed between diasporic Asian American authors and their nineteenth-century...
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The Legacy of Vesuvius: A Conversation with Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas is curator of The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, as well as From Texas to the World: Common Ground at UT Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art. In this conversation: What the Bourbons discovered in 18th-century excavations…
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Aristophanes and Timeless Comedy: A Conversation with A.M. Juster
Gerytades: An Aristophanes Play... sort of, by poet and translator A.M. Juster, is out now from Contubernales Publishing. In this conversation: How Gerytades was lost and found; what makes for great comedy; timeliness and timelessness in human nature; how to approach a play that survives in...
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Dragon Eye: A Conversation with Thomas Riccio
"Dragon Eye," Thomas Riccio's immersive video installation documenting the culture of the Miao people of China, was recently on view at the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas. In this conversation: The process of visiting and doing research with the Miao people in remote mountain villages; cultural...
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Views of L.A. and Medellín: A Conversation with Thomas Locke Hobbs
Thomas Locke Hobbs is a photographer whose books include L.A. Vedute, which was shortlisted for Aperture Photobook of the Year, and Rampitas. In this conversation: Cities in the U.S., Peru and Colombia; domestic architecture, density and class division; negative space in the built environment;...
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Aphorisms for Artists: A Conversation with Franklin Einspruch
Franklin Einspruch is the editor of Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art, by Walter Darby Bannard, and the proprietor of Dissident Muse Journal. In this conversation: Why the aphorism?; the significance of abstract art and of Clement Greenberg; the place of commitment in art; how to...
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Spiritual Moderns: A Conversation with Erika Doss
Erika Doss is the author of Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (University of Chicago Press). In this conversation: why art historians have often neglected the intersection of art and faith in modernism; the fluidity of religion in modernity; modern artists vs....
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Hermeneutics of the Image: A Conversation with Thomas Pfau
Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at Duke University, with a secondary appointment on the Duke Divinity School faculty, is the author of Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Notre Dame, 2022). The journal Modern Theology...
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: A Conversation with Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is the author of Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University…
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The Poetry of Christine de Pizan: A Conversation with Maryann Corbett
Maryann Corbett's translations of three ballades by Christine de Pizan appear in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: The poet's life and times amidst the Hundred Years' War, the Western Schism and the execution of Joan of Arc; the literary debate on the rights of…
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Art Criticism and the Art World: A Conversation with Brian Allen
Brian Allen, a senior fellow at National Review Institute and National Review’s art critic, is an art historian living in Arlington, Vermont and a frequent contributor to Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: the transition from museum director to full-time art critic; the state of art…
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Philosophy and Practical Politics: A Conversation with Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol is director of Defending Democracy Together, editor at large of The Bulwark, and the host of Conversations with Bill Kristol. In this conversation: moving from academia to Washington, D.C.; changing perspectives over the course of a career in politics; the successes and…
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Poetry in the Modern Age: A Conversation with Micah Mattix
Micah Mattix is Professor of English at Regent University and the editor of the Prufrock newsletter on Substack. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, and The New Criterion, and was appointed poetry editor at First Things in 2021. In this conversation: Frank...
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A Brief History of Emergence: Conversation with Frederick Turner, Robert Stern, and Roger F. Malina
"A Brief History of Emergence," by Frederick Turner, Robert Stern, and Roger F. Malina, appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this podcast: Why is emergence important in complex systems? How is emergence important for physics, for geophysics and for the arts? What is an…
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Jack Tworkov and Yayoi Kusama: A Conversation with Jason Andrew and Midori Yamamura
Jason Andrew is the founding partner at Artist Estate Studio, LLC, the entity that manages the estates of Jack Tworkov and Elizabeth Murray among others. Over the past 20 years, he has organized historic exhibitions and published extensively on the life and work of Jack Tworkov. He lives and…
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Latter Days: A Conversation with Frederick Turner
Frederick Turner's collection of poems, LATTER DAYS, is available from Franciscan University Press: https://www.cuapress.org/9781736656136/latter-days/
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Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics: A Conversation with Daniel Asia
Daniel Asia has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored...
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What Is Called Thinking? A Conversation with Zohar Atkins
Zohar Atkins is is the Founder of Etz Hasadeh, a Center for Existential Torah. He is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He holds a DPhil in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and semikha from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was a Wexner Graduate...
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Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art: A Conversation with Peter Chametzky
Peter Chametzky is Professor of Art History, and has been on the SVAD faculty since 2012. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century German art and culture. From 1998 to 2012 he taught at Southern Illinois University, first as Associate Professor and then as Professor, and served as Director…
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Science, Technology, and Muslim Politics in South Asia: A Conversation with Andrew Amstutz
Andrew Amstutz studies modern South Asian history in global contexts. His work explores the intertwined histories of science, technology, and Muslim politics in South Asia as well as museums and public history debates. He currently is a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. At…
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Turner's Modern World: A Conversation with George Shackelford
Turner’s Modern World at the Kimbell Art Museum: https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/turners-modern-world Turner’s Modern World catalog: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847869343/ What made Turner modern? (1:00) — Stylistic transition in the 1830s; “painting with tinted steam”; The Burning of…
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Czesław Miłosz: A California Life — A Conversation with Cynthia L. Haven
More about Czesław Miłosz: A California Life https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/ https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/czeslaw-milosz/ How the book originated (0:45) — The vatic tradition in Polish poetry (4:30) — Warsaw 1945 and “Dedication” (6:45) — Introducing...
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The Deep Places: A Conversation with Ross Douthat
Engaging skeptical audiences in a polarized age (1:30) — Two cheers for the Enlightenment, and the Stephen King-Lovecraftian vibes of New England (7:30) — Self-experimentation, and moderate deference to scientific consensus (12:15) — Giving science the right amount of authority (17:00) — When…
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Flora: A Conversation With Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler speak about Flora, their exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, on view from September 5, 2021 to January 16, 2022. https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler-flora https://hubbardbirchler.net/works/flora/...
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John Wilcox: The Relinquishment Of Time -- A Conversation with Exploredinary and David Wilcox
A conversation about the new film, John Wilcox: The Relinquishment of Time, with filmmakers Exploredinary (Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky) and Dr. David Wilcox, the artist's brother. About the film: https://www.exploredinary.com/johnwilcox About the artist John Wilcox: https://johnwilcoxart.com/...
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Remembering Rick Brettell & Angstrom Gallery: A Conversation with David Quadrini
An interview with artist and gallerist David Quadrini, on the occasion of the exhibition "An Artists' Homage to the Dynamic Influence of Rick Brettell," curated by Greg Metz at SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas, Sept. 10 to Oct. 9, 2021....
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Catrachos: A Conversation with poet Roy G. Guzmán
Lauren Brazeal, Matthew Baker and Rebecca Cai interview poet Roy G. Guzmán. http://athenaeumreview.org/podcasts/
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Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land -- A Conversation with Toni Jensen
Shannon Schaffer and Thomas Rocha nterview Toni Jensen, author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land (Ballantine).
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Dignity: A Conversation with Chris Arnade
Our guest today is Chris Arnade, the author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Guardian, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal among many others. In this podcast:...
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Modernism, Classicism and the Built Environment: A Conversation with Justin Shubow
On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more. On the Eisenhower…
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The Search for Dark Matter: A Conversation with Xiangdong Ji
Our guest on this podcast is Xiangdong Ji, project leader for the PandaX dark matter search collaboration in China’s JinPing Deep-Underground Lab in Sichuan, China, and Distinguished University Professor of physics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the history of the search for dark…
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Rescue and Resistance: A Conversation with Mark Roseman
Our guest on this episode is Mark Roseman, the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany. In Part One: How did the members of the Bund come to be part of such a cohesive and tightly-knit...
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The State of the Arts and Humanities: A Conversation With Nils Roemer
Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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On Poetry and Translation: A Conversation with A. M. Juster
Our guest on this episode is the poet, translator, and critic A. M. Juster, whose next book, Wonder and Wrath, will be published by Paul Dry Books in early 2021.
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Philosophy of Population Health: A Conversation with Sean Valles
Our guest on this episode is Sean Valles, the author of Philosophy of Population Health.
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