New Books in Art

Dave Colangelo, "The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam UP, 2019) describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively depl...

Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can the arts make the world a better place? In Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference (Policy Pr...

Jonathan Homrighausen, "Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: The Song of Songs, and The Saint Johns Bible" (Liturgical Press, 2022)

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The illuminations of The Saint John’s Bible have delighted many with their imaginative takes on Scripture. But many struggle to appreciate the cal...

Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Chiriac's book Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest (de Gruyter, 2022) examines the reach of modernism in design and pe...

Seeing Truth in Photographs

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Penelope Umbrico talks about her work, images as currency, and how technology and various platforms herd images. And is photography tyrannical?...

Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless ...

Why Should Cultural Heritage Be Protected?

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where people are killed and abused in warfare and violent conflict, artifacts of cultural heritage are often destroyed and mistreated as well. Indeed,...

Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a m...

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago's edited volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing (Leuven ...

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock's The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia (2 volumes; Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 202...

Michael Murawski, "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’...

Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Tim Harte's Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture (U Wisconsin Press, 2020) lo...

Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, fro...

Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno –...

Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 202...

Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Art...

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Art has a long history of engaging with conflict and violence. From the antiquities, through Goya, to Guernica, our museums are filled with depictions...

Seeing Truth in Museums

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at t...

Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (U Washington Press, 2020), Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of t...

Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, w...

Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) offers the first overarching history of the human...

Gilah Yelin Hirsch, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together...

Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But sh...

Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized the way philosophers and historians of science thought about science, scienti...

Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1982, the Institute held a multi day discussion of censorship. In this session from the Vault, sociologist Richard Sennett talks about Jean Jacques...

Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The "Black Desert" in the northern Arabian Peninsula is home to thousands of pieces of rock art - both written inscriptions and figural images - left ...

Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Binn's Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avante Garde (Manchester University Press, 2022) is the first book-length work dedicated ...

Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with Dr. Salah Hatem and Dr. Jaafar Jotheri, professors of archaeology at al-Qadisiyah University, about their research project documen...

Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis ...

Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1990s, a network of twenty Soros Centres for Contemporary Art sprung up across Eastern Europe: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Pra...

Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Regarded as the “9th Art”, French bande desinée have a much longer history of serious socio-political engagement than American comics. Since the...

Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its ...

Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses ...

Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than dri...

Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the ...

Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an unusually large number of court cases against artists and curators in Russia. Focusing on prominen...

Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the...

Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production (Academic Studies Press, 2022) delves into crea...

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the creative industries look like an hourglass. On the one side, you have creators; on the other, the rest of us. In the middle, Rebecca Gibli...

Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical f...

Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical f...

Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (191...

Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema—and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre—T...

Edward S. Cooke, "Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History" (Princeton UP, 2022)

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses art...

Hettie Judah, "Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones" (Penguin, 2022)

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones (John Murray/Penguin, 2022) by Hettie Judah is a beautifully...

Andrew Spira, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Kasimir’s Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In f...

Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The two parallel Palace Museums in Beijing and Taiwan, and their separate collections of thousands of precious artworks and artifacts from imperial ti...

Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation'" (Roli Books, 2022)

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy's Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation' (Roli Books, 2022) examines Motherland, an important series of ...

Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth: The Art and Texture o...

Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside...

Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London’s iconic ‘Tube’ map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recent...

Seeing Truth in Making and Unmaking Art

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Valerie Hegarty like to rip things up, twist them, distort them, and then leave audiences to ponder the results of her violence against imagery...

Women In Art Magazine: A Conversation with Laureline Latour

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Laureline Latour founded Women In Art Magazine in July 2022 from a desire to bring together artists from different countries. She studied German an...

Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Aquaman and the War against Oceans (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Ryan Poll explores ways the New 52 reimagining of Aquaman--a massive ove...

Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from t...

Graham Harman, "Architecture and Objects" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects (...

Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2022) provides the first comprehensive history of film experiments at the Bauhaus, the...

Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, craf...

David Morgan, "The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions" (UNC Press, 2021)

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has broadene...

Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is ...

Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), associate professor of media and cultural studi...

Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Vault, we hear Harry Berger’s talk about Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters." Harry Berger was a schola...

Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portra...

Eden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the tradition of The Lady in Gold and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the remarkable history behind one of the world's most beloved paintings, Leonardo d...

Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, wa...

Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There has been no greater surge in global fashion trends and expressions of personal style than in the contemporary era of social media fashion influe...

Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also hav...

Salim Tamari, "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (U California Press, 2022) is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler W...

Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular...

Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These confli...

Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senio...

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designe...

Clémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, ex...

Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possi...

Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to...

Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Juliane Noth’s Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Paintings, coming very soon from the Harvard University Asia Center (2022), tracks a rela...

Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk...

The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Marchildon interviews Diana Nemiroff. As a former curator of contemporary and modern art at the National Gallery of Canada and former director of...

Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, p...

Annie-B Parson, "The Choreography of Everyday Life" (Verso, 2022)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson's new book The Choreography of Everyday Life (Verso, 2022) is many things: a pandemic diary, a discourse of Gr...

Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, o...

Paula Serafini, "Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How are art and social justice intertwined? In Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism Paula Serafini, a Lecturer...

Stephen F. Auth, "Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God Through Art and Time" (Sophia Institute Press, 2022)

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God through Art and Time (Sophia Institute Press, 2022), Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and c...

Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Nathanson's book A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) ...

Mrill Ingram, "Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth" (Temple UP, 2022)

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces—from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways—are created and maintai...

Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany" (Harvard UP, 2022)

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of...

Pamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of unde...

Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that co...

On Japanese Buddhist Art

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Quist specializes in East Asian Buddhist imagery with focuses in pre-modern Japan and China. Her research centers on questions of interaction w...

Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film port...

On Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Manifesto of Futurism was published in 1909, on the front page of Le Figaro, the oldest daily newspaper in France. Its author was Filippo Tomasso ...

Jos van Beurden, "Inconvenient Heritage: Colonial Collections and Restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multi...

Karen Archey, "After Institutions" (Les presses du réel, 2022)

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they...

Selene Wendt, "Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories Through Contemporary Art" (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021)

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021), art histori...

Julia Walker, "Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the cit...

Andrea Karnes, "Women Painting Women" (Delmonico Books, 2022)

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Karnes' book Women Painting Women (Delmonico Books, 2022) documents a wide-ranging exhibit inclusive of women as both the makers and subjects...

Sara Farrington, "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press, 2021)

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Farrington's The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press, 2021) is a collection of interviews with a host ...

Jarrod Hore, "Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism" (U California Press, 2022)

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According t...

Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang, "Shelf Documents: Art Library as Practice" (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 2021)

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In Shelf Documents: Art Lib...

Kajri Jain, "Gods in the Time of Democracy" (Duke UP, 2021)

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the...