In Your Digital Dreams: Art in the Age of the Internet
July 2, 2018
Interview with Jeffrey De Blois By David Ebony One of my first internet projects was to write a monthly column for a website called Art Icons, beginning in the early… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Ep. 61 – On Color
June 28, 2018
We’re talking about color this week—where it comes from, how we see it, and its role in our lives. YaleUniversity · Ep. 61 – On Color Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |… READ MORE
A Painting that Reveals an Entire World while Concealing an Alchemical Secret
June 23, 2018
Nathan Flis — The Paston Treasure is one of the most enigmatic paintings in Western art. A new book and exhibition, now on view at the painting’s home in the Norwich… READ MORE
Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
June 19, 2018
Leesa Fanning– Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art is the result of many years of research fueled by my intense interest in the subject, the pursuit of which is ongoing…. READ MORE
Ep. 58 – Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge Installation
June 7, 2018
We discuss the Mark Bradford exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC with the curator of that show, Evelyn Hankins. YaleUniversity · A conversation with the curator… READ MORE
The Peaceful South
May 29, 2018
Anders Walker— The recent opening of a lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama underscores the role that violence played in upholding racial segregation, or Jim Crow. From the 1870s through the… READ MORE
Young Men at War
May 24, 2018
Stephen Houston— A grievous feature of our age is the use of young men in combat. A recent film was made about this ongoing tragedy: Beasts of No Nation, based on the… READ MORE
Long Distance Affair: Latin American Artists in the “City of Light”
May 18, 2018
Interview with author Michele Greet By David Ebony At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was electric in many ways. Electric street lights replaced gas lamps, and the hyper-energized… READ MORE
The Remarkable Story of a Famously Enigmatic Mom (Happy Mother’s Day!)
May 8, 2018
Daniel E. Sutherland and Georgia Toutziari– Her name was Anna Matilda Whistler, but the world knows her simply as Whistler’s Mother. Not even her son, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, thought… READ MORE
A meditation by writer Adania Shibli on the art of Mona Hatoum
April 17, 2018
Six Key Movements to Unlock a Possible History of Materials Adania Shibli It is embedded in the silence of the spaces in which her works are mounted, as well as… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic