The Elusive Archive
April 23, 2024
Despina Stratigakos— How I wish this book had existed when I was a student pursuing the fugitive histories of women architects! In the 1990s publications on women in architecture were… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
We Love You, Yoko
April 9, 2024
Kathleen Hanna— Yoko Ono was the first punk rock singer I ever heard, an early proponent of female rebellion in song. My parents didn’t go to college, and we didn’t… READ MORE
Ep. 133 – The Search for a Forgotten Architect
March 28, 2024
In this episode, curators and archivists William Whitaker and Heather Isbell Schumacher discuss the life and career of Minerva Parker Nichols, the subject of their new book, Minerva Parker Nichols:… READ MORE
Making the World at Home
March 27, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith— Picture this: a young girl sits next to a fireplace, its dim glow brightened by warm candlelight. Her head is bent, and her eyes study the piece… READ MORE
Mark Rothko’s Sublime Works on Paper: A Conversation with Adam Greenhalgh, Christopher Rothko, and David Ebony
March 19, 2024
David Ebony — Perhaps the most expressive of the American Abstract Expressionists, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is internationally recognized as one of the most dynamic and influential artists of the twentieth… READ MORE
Food, Feminisms, and Visual Culture of the Global Caribbean
March 15, 2024
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Patricia Fidler, Executive Director of the A&AePortal, interviewed Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff, editors of the newly released born-digital book Nourish and Resist:… READ MORE
Celebrating Women’s History Month
March 1, 2024
In 1980, the National Women’s History Project successfully gained national recognition for Women’s History Week, issued by President Jimmy Carter. Women’s History Month, later established by Congress in 1987, commemorates… READ MORE
Ep. 131 – The History of Weaving at Black Mountain College
February 28, 2024
The artists, educators, independent scholars, and experts on the history of Black Mountain College Michael Beggs and Julie J. Thomson joined forces and produced the exhibition (at the Black Mountain… READ MORE
An “Active Absence”: the Materiality of Lost Images
February 5, 2024
Jennifer Van Horn— How do we study an image that is no longer there, one that cannot be experienced? This question gains urgency when we consider portraits of enslaved Americans… READ MORE
Honoring Black Histories and Experiences
February 2, 2024
Black History Month, or African-American History Month, was proposed in February of 1969 by students at Kent State University. Later to be federally recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976,… READ MORE
Between Memory and History