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In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing — 63 episodes
The Evidentiary and the Black Body
Creole in the Archive
Connoisseurship and the Work of Naming
Fashion and the Construction of Race
Curating History and Race
“Fragmentary Ruins and the Enduring Image”: Cammy Brothers on Drawing as a Way of Thinking
"A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery
“To Give Shape to a Way of Seeing the Past”: Shira Brisman on the Intimacy of Writing the History of Social Art
“The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World
"On Living Archives": Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices
"Attention Becomes a Kind of Politics": Sarah Hamill on Sculpture and Interpretation
“Shifting Focal Points”: Sergei Tcherepnin on Sonic Attention
“What ‘Minor' Histories Allow Us to See”: Donette Francis on Writing African Diaspora
"I Never Start with Nothing": Mary Lum on Collage and Constructed Geographies
“An Outward-Looking Model”: The Future(s) of the University and Higher Education in a Digital Age with Koenraad Brosens and Blake Stimson
“What are Our Important Questions?”: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in a Digital Age with Jacqueline Francis and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
“To Make Visible the Structures”: Challenging the Canon, Digital and Beyond, with Niall Atkinson and Min Kyung Lee
“Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily Pugh
“Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskey
“A Mechanism for Survival”: McClain Groff on nibia pastrana santiago’s NO MORE EFFORTS
“A Picture of Resilience”: Ashley Lazevnick on Charles Demuth’s "Red Poppies"
“An Expression of the Poetic Self”: Yuefeng Wu on the Stele Inscription of the Jiu-Cheng Palace
“From Imitation to Evolution”: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884"
“An Allegory of Representation”: Byron Otis on Gabriel Metsu’s "View into a Hall with a Jester, a Boy, and his Dog"
"Touching at a Distance”: Ellen Tani on Nadine Robinson’s "Coronation Theme: Organon"
“Between the Personal and the Historical”: Asma Naeem on Listening to Art and Visual Culture
“The Ethics of Seeing”: Kaira M. Cabañas on Creative Care and Art’s Histories
“Grounded by a Set of Relations”: Nancy Um on "Horizontal" Cultures within Art History
“To Approach the Object from Outside”: Joseph Koerner on History, Trauma, and Wonder
“To See the Effects of Sound”: Niall Atkinson on Acoustic Topographies of the Early Modern
“What a Picture Can’t Offer”: Michael Gaudio on the Imaginative Work of Sound in Art History
“How Do We Know What We Know?”: Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi on Fieldwork and Evidence
“Becoming Belonged”: Roberto Tejada on the Political Project of Photography and Poetry
“What Sort of Problems Does an Artwork Pose?”: Joan Kee on Art History as an Infinite Game
“Always About to Take Place”: Glenn Peers on the Byzantine Fresco Chapel
“The Status of the Human”: Amy Freund on the First French Hunting Portrait
“The Erosion of History”: Samantha Page on Hung Liu’s “Migrant Mother”
“A Rebuke to Polite Masculinity”: Charles Keiffer on Thomas Patch’s “British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann’s Home in Florence”
“The Color of Emergency”: Joan Kee on Chao-Chen Yang’s “Apprehension”
“It Looks like How Jazz Sounds”: Jordan Horton on Romare Bearden's “The Dove”
“‘Others’ of Various Kinds”: J. Vanessa Lyon on Intersectionality as an Early Modern Scholar
“Where the Impossible is Possible”: Saundra Weddle and Lisa Pon on Collaboration and Renaissance Studies
"One's Own Bifurcations": Lorraine O'Grady on Both/And Thinking in Art
“Moving Across the Threshold“: Alisa LaGamma on Curating the Arts of Africa
“Sound is a Dimension of Reality”: Robin James on Theorizing Sound, Race, and Gender
“Perception is a Form of Sampling": Christoph Cox on Materialities of Sound
“The Sound Can Touch You Directly”: Christina Kubisch on Electronic Sound Art
“When is This?”: Brian Michael Murphy on Media Archaeology and Preservation
“A Database is an Argument”: Anne Helmreich on Digital Humanities and Art History
“A Gesture of Reciprocity”: Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Translation and Restitution
“Unpacking My Identity”: Genevieve Gaignard on Race in America and the Impossibility of Home
“How to Look with Soft Eyes”: Darby English on Description as Method
“Philosophical Grounding”: Michael Ann Holly on Creating Visual Studies
"Can You Show Thinking?”: Mieke Bal on Film & Writing
"Refusal of Personality": Brigid Doherty on Rosemarie Trockel and Rorschach
“Looking as Knowing”: Svetlana Alpers on Critical Thinking and Photography
“An Art History Yet to Come”: Kirsten Scheid on Palestinian Art
“A Set of Ways of Engaging”: Lisa Lee on Thomas Hirschhorn & Materiality
“An Embodiment of Experience”: Steven Nelson on African Art and Writing History
“To Speak Across Time”: Gabriele Finaldi on Museums
“An Archive of Exchange”: C. Ondine Chavoya on Chicanx and Latinx Art History
“Surfaces of Projection”: Dell M. Hamilton on Performance Art and Black Embodiment
“The Nature of All Our Forms”: María Magdalena Campos-Pons on Performance Art