The Bold Colors of Paul Gauguin
June 11, 2019
Marcia B. Hall — Paul Gauguin sought to express his sense of spirituality in his paintings. Weary with the materialism of sophisticated European society, he escaped to the South Seas… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Art in Nazi Germany
May 6, 2019
Michael Kater— Much has been made in recent weeks in the international press of German chancellor Angela Merkel ordering pictures by Modernist painter Emil Nolde to be removed from her… READ MORE
Ep. 73 – Mughal Architecture Including—and Beyond—the Taj Mahal
April 18, 2019
The Taj Mahal is deserving of its role as one of the most famous and recognizable buildings in the world; Professor Chanchal Dadlani explains why subsequent architecture, from the later… READ MORE
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
April 15, 2019
Paul Stirton– “The New Typography builds on the findings of Russian Suprematism, Dutch Neoplasticism, and especially that of Constructivism.” –Jan Tschichold, 1928 The sources of modernist graphic design can be… READ MORE
Ghostcatching
April 10, 2019
Emily Coates and Sarah Demers — Physics and dance share the singular problem of our universe: time moves in one direction. Events that occur can never be repeated exactly. A… READ MORE
Modernism’s Other Tapestry
April 8, 2019
K. L. H. Wells — Full is a tapestry that is instantly recognizable as a work by Josef Albers, who is best known for his series Homage to the Square…. READ MORE
Ep. 71 – Lina Bo Bardi
March 14, 2019
A conversation with Zeuler Lima about the extraordinary Brazilian architect, designer, illustrator, writer, editor, and curator Lina Bo Bardi. Lima’s book, Lina Bo Bardi, is newly out in paperback. YaleUniversity… READ MORE
Q&A with Denise Murrell, author of Posing Modernity
January 28, 2019
Yale University Press: Posing Modernity began as a term paper that became a dissertation and has now become both an exhibition and a book. What changes or shifts in focus… READ MORE
The What and the Where of Color
December 19, 2018
David Scott Kastan & Stephen Farthing— Our lives are saturated by color. The sky above us is blue (or gray or pink or purple or nearly black). The grass we… READ MORE
Meet the innovative printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn
December 13, 2018
Timothy J. Standring– Rembrandt van Rijn was the Alfred Hitchcock of the Golden Age of Dutch painters. Like the British director—who made cameo appearances in many of his films—Rembrandt placed… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic