New Books in Art
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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
Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)
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, 1910–1925" (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)
55 mins; December 01, 2025
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2025
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
83 hours 31 mins; November 29, 2025
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
36 mins; November 28, 2025
Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; November 24, 2025
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
42 mins; November 23, 2025
Ana Patricia RodrĂ­guez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
33 mins; November 20, 2025
Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film" (Cornell UP, 2024)
67 hours 57 mins; November 19, 2025
Rizvana Bradley, "Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form" (Stanford UP, 2023)
62 hours 9 mins; November 15, 2025
Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)
59 mins; November 07, 2025
Elizabeth Currie, "Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio" (Reaktion, 2025)
37 mins; November 02, 2025
Cosima Clara Gillhammer, "Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
72 hours 24 mins; October 30, 2025
Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
61 hours 44 mins; October 29, 2025
Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
99 hours 48 mins; October 26, 2025
Joanna Woronkowicz, "Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers" (Stanford UP, 2025)
40 mins; October 23, 2025
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 21, 2025
Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)
66 hours 22 mins; October 20, 2025
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025)
54 mins; October 17, 2025
Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
63 hours 3 mins; October 16, 2025
Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
52 mins; October 14, 2025
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, "The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water" (Routledge, 2024)
40 mins; October 11, 2025
Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 07, 2025
Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
71 hours 17 mins; October 06, 2025
Michelle Bumatay, "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 03, 2025
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
62 hours 32 mins; September 27, 2025
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 14 mins; September 22, 2025
Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
64 hours 56 mins; September 18, 2025
Arriving in a New Country
43 mins; September 16, 2025
Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 15, 2025
Christopher C. Gorham, "Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France" (Citadel Press, 2025)
48 mins; September 09, 2025
Localisation of Islamic Arts in Malaysia
22 mins; September 08, 2025
Nicole Nehrig, "With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
39 mins; September 03, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; August 31, 2025
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 27, 2025
K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
67 hours 42 mins; August 23, 2025
Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (Hauser & Wirth, 2024)
53 mins; August 19, 2025
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)
50 mins; August 15, 2025
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
61 hours 41 mins; August 13, 2025
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
112 hours 42 mins; August 13, 2025
JirĂ­ Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2025
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
77 hours 25 mins; August 11, 2025
Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
24 mins; August 09, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; August 08, 2025
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025)
34 mins; August 02, 2025
Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
48 mins; August 02, 2025
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025)
79 hours 52 mins; August 01, 2025
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
103 hours 12 mins; July 27, 2025
Ünver RĂŒstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
72 hours 3 mins; July 27, 2025
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
38 mins; July 26, 2025
Zachari Logan, "Green" (Radiant Press, 2025).
50 mins; July 24, 2025
Jake Kaner and Clive Edwards, "Conservation of Twentieth-Century Furniture" (Routledge, 2024)
46 mins; July 18, 2025
Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)
55 mins; July 15, 2025
Cat Dawson, "Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape" (MIT Press, 2025)
39 mins; July 15, 2025
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
48 mins; July 14, 2025
Ignacio G. GalĂĄn, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 12, 2025
Kirstie Macleod, "The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch" (Quickthorn, 2025)
30 mins; July 09, 2025
Rhythm, Exorcism, and Confrontation with Lexi Eikelboom
34 mins; July 07, 2025
S1.E6. Illustrating Punk
42 mins; July 06, 2025
Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)
61 hours 8 mins; July 04, 2025
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 9 mins; June 29, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; June 22, 2025
Yevgenia Nayberg, "A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me" (Neal Porter Books, 2024)
42 mins; June 21, 2025
Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025)
43 mins; June 17, 2025
Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 17, 2025
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
52 mins; June 11, 2025
antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
40 mins; June 10, 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
44 mins; June 09, 2025
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
33 mins; June 08, 2025
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
41 mins; May 31, 2025
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; May 27, 2025
Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
80 hours 13 mins; May 22, 2025
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2025
Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
35 mins; May 09, 2025
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
62 hours 20 mins; May 08, 2025
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
46 mins; May 04, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
53 mins; April 29, 2025