Our guest on this episode is Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, and Director of Art-Brain Innovations at the Center for Brain Health at The University of Dallas at Texas. Becoming a museum director: A visit to the National Gallery of Art (0:45) — From museum consulting, to […]
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The Power of Art, From Museums to Medicine: A Conversation With Bonnie Pitman Part 1
Recorded on 2019-09-24
Our guest on this episode is Bonnie Pitman, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, and Director of Art-Brain Innovations at the Center for Brain Health at The University of Dallas at Texas. From museum director, to hospital patient, to starting up a program in art and medicine at UT Southwestern (1:45) — […]
Listen ->Colonialism and Devotion on the Medieval European Frontier: A Conversation with Ittai Weinryb
Recorded on 2019-02-09
Our guest on this episode is Ittai Weinryb, Associate Professor of Art History at Bard Graduate Center in New York and curator of the exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place. In this episode: Art and Frontier: the role of art in “frontier societies” e.g. around the Black Sea in the 14th […]
Listen ->Berlin’s Museum Island: A Conversation with Thomas Gaehtgens
Recorded on 2018-08-30
Join Ben Lima for a conversation with Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute. The two discuss European art history and traditions of museum curation, as well as Museumsinsel, the northern half of one of Berlin’s districts which is made up of five architecturally grand museums. Spoken of in Specific detail is the Bode […]
Listen ->Commercial Culture, Realism and Pop Art: A Conversation with Michael Lobel Part 2
Recorded on 2018-08-04
Our guest on this episode is Michael Lobel, professor of art history at Hunter College and the author of books on Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and John Sloan. In Part One: Realism in 20th-century art: challenging the received critical narrative of the “triumph of abstraction” (1:30) — Contemporary realists e.g. Kerry James Marshall, Nicole Eisenman, […]
Listen ->Commercial Culture, Realism and Pop Art: A Conversation with Michael Lobel Part 1
Recorded on 2018-07-29
Our guest on this episode is Michael Lobel, professor of art history at Hunter College and the author of books on Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and John Sloan. In Part One: Realism in 20th-century art: challenging the received critical narrative of the “triumph of abstraction” (1:30) — Contemporary realists e.g. Kerry James Marshall, Nicole Eisenman, […]
Listen ->Suzanne Preston Blier: Risk, Power and Identity in African Art
Recorded on 2018-07-17
Our guest on this episode is Suzanne Preston Blier, the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In this episode About the AfricaMap project at Harvard, its origins and objectives (1:15) — How she researched and wrote the book Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: […]
Listen ->From Matisse to Mondrian: A Conversation with Yve-Alain Bois
Recorded on 2018-05-17
Our guest on this episode is Yve-Alain Bois, professor of art history in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In this episode How the former state of art history in France influenced his decision to come to the United States (1:00) — How the conflict between formalism and […]
Listen ->Oral Histories: A Conversation With Rae Pleasant
Recorded on 2018-05-13
PhDc student Rae Pleasant speaks with Roger Malina about her work in the field of oral histories that seek to preserve the ideas and life experiences of multiple generations
Listen ->Photography in Mexico: A Conversation with John Mraz Pt. 2
Recorded on 2018-05-04
Our guest on this episode is John Mraz, the world’s leading authority on photography in Mexico. Among his books are Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity ; Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons ; and Nacho López: Mexican Photographer. He’s the curator of Los Hermanos Mayo: Photographing Exile, which was recently […]
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