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Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell" (Frances Lincoln, 2026)
37 mins; March 30, 2026
Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
39 mins; March 24, 2026
Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas, "Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space" (Routledge, 2025)
80 hours 49 mins; March 24, 2026
Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter
64 hours 16 mins; March 19, 2026
Georgios Boudalis, "On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean" (Legacy Press, 2022)
32 mins; March 15, 2026
Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)
57 mins; February 27, 2026
Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)
56 mins; February 22, 2026
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
46 mins; February 16, 2026
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; February 09, 2026
Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
62 hours 35 mins; February 06, 2026
Wisdom of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art
49 mins; February 05, 2026
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27 mins; January 23, 2026
Alvin K. Wong, "Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone" (Duke UP, 2025)
69 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2026
"Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg" (Akashic Books, Ltd., 2016)
33 mins; January 11, 2026
Graeme Brooker, "The Story of the Interior: How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
50 mins; January 10, 2026
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 06, 2026
Matthew Davis, "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
66 hours 5 mins; January 04, 2026
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
57 mins; January 01, 2026
David Newheiser et al., "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
88 hours 44 mins; December 27, 2025
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910â1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025
Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; December 16, 2025
Ulinka Rublack, "DĂŒrer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)
37 mins; December 15, 2025
Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)
64 hours 36 mins; December 07, 2025
Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2024)