In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

58 Episodes

1. “Fragmentary Ruins and the Enduring Image”: Cammy Brothers on Drawing as a Way of Thinking

   Published: 3/26/2024
2. "A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery

   Published: 3/19/2024
3. “To Give Shape to a Way of Seeing the Past”: Shira Brisman on the Intimacy of Writing the History of Social Art

   Published: 3/12/2024
4. “The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World

   Published: 3/5/2024
5. "On Living Archives": Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices

   Published: 4/18/2023
6. "Attention Becomes a Kind of Politics": Sarah Hamill on Sculpture and Interpretation

   Published: 4/11/2023
7. “Shifting Focal Points”: Sergei Tcherepnin on Sonic Attention

   Published: 4/4/2023
8. “What ‘Minor' Histories Allow Us to See”: Donette Francis on Writing African Diaspora

   Published: 3/28/2023
9. "I Never Start with Nothing": Mary Lum on Collage and Constructed Geographies

   Published: 3/21/2023
10. “An Outward-Looking Model”: The Future(s) of the University and Higher Education in a Digital Age with Koenraad Brosens and Blake Stimson

    Published: 4/12/2022
11. “What are Our Important Questions?”: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in a Digital Age with Jacqueline Francis and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi

    Published: 4/5/2022
12. “To Make Visible the Structures”: Challenging the Canon, Digital and Beyond, with Niall Atkinson and Min Kyung Lee

    Published: 3/29/2022
13. “Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily Pugh

    Published: 3/22/2022
14. “Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskey

    Published: 3/15/2022
15. “A Mechanism for Survival”: McClain Groff on nibia pastrana santiago’s NO MORE EFFORTS

    Published: 2/1/2022
16. “A Picture of Resilience”: Ashley Lazevnick on Charles Demuth’s "Red Poppies"

    Published: 2/1/2022
17. “An Expression of the Poetic Self”: Yuefeng Wu on the Stele Inscription of the Jiu-Cheng Palace

    Published: 2/1/2022
18. “From Imitation to Evolution”: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884"

    Published: 2/1/2022
19. “An Allegory of Representation”: Byron Otis on Gabriel Metsu’s "View into a Hall with a Jester, a Boy, and his Dog"

    Published: 2/1/2022
20. "Touching at a Distance”: Ellen Tani on Nadine Robinson’s "Coronation Theme: Organon"

    Published: 2/1/2022