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Episodes: 600
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 4.6/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
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Host
Miranda Melcher - Scholar whose work focuses on post-conflict military integration, treaty negotiation, and implementation in civil-war contexts, including Angola and Mozambique.
Gina Stamm - Associate Professor of French at the University of Alabama, specializing in environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Surrealism, s...
Saman Nasser - Historian with an M.A. in history from James Madison University who works as an educational staff member.
Kelsey Brosnan - Art historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. She is the author of a book on still-life painter Anne Vallayer-Coster.
Viktoriia Grivina - Independent anthropologist and writer whose work examines Ukraine, war, public art, and activism. She is the author of Kharkiv, a War City and Kharkiv is a Dream: Public Art and Activism, 2013–2023.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Ellery E. Foutch - Preservation, Perfection, Temporality, Natural-history Objects, Nineteenth-century Visual Culture, And The Desire To Arrest Decay.
Sara Pappas - Nineteenth-century French Art, Naturalism, Art Criticism, Literary Culture, Museum Collections, And The Categorization Of Art.
Paulina Banas - Orientalist Book Production, Egyptian Visual Culture, Publishing Markets, Travel Imagery, Commercial Art, And Cross-cultural Exchange.
Meredith Gamer - Art And Execution, Punishment, State Violence, Eighteenth-century London, Popular Imagery, And Visual Culture.
Victoria Donovan - Ukrainian Regional History, War, Museums, Artists, Cultural Memory, Landscapes, Biodiversity, And Lived Experience In The Donbas.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Illinois Press, 2026)
October 10, 2026
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by paranoia and a mindset that pitted the USSR’s state-sponsored Socialist Realism against its so-called opposite: Western art in general and Abstract Expressionism in particular. But can one version of art be the opposite of another?Julia Tatiana Bailey teases out the complexity and artificiality of the persistent narrative of US and Soviet artistic ot...
The Connoisseur: A Cultural History with Peter Burke (Reaktion, 2026)
September 27, 2026
Eminent historian Peter Burke joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, The Connoisseur: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2026), considering the art connoisseur from the Renaissance to the present day. Connoisseurs have been an influential, if somewhat mysterious, figure in the history of art, responsible for making or breaking high-profile collections and reputations and influencing taste, the art market, and the field of art history with their pronouncements. But what did it take to become a c...
Glenn Peers, "Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)
September 21, 2026
Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Ar: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) represents a risky experiment in art-history writing. It takes objects of Byzantine art—manuscript illustration, frescos, mosaic, sculpture—and reads them through the lenses of disability studies, media studies, and gender studies in order to reveal something about their significance not only in that historical culture, but also in our own. Moreover, it uses lenses of personal history ...
Frequently asked questions
How do I get in touch with New Books in Art?
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What is the email for New Books in Art?
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How many listeners does New Books in Art have?
Podseeker estimates New Books in Art reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
Who is an ideal guest for New Books in Art?
New Books in Art typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: University faculty or established independent scholars with expertise in art history, visual culture, museum studies, cultural history, or closely related fields, usually with a recently published scholarly book. Common among recent guests: Recent book from an academic or respected specialist press; University faculty appointment or established research role; Specialized scholarship in art history or visual culture. Recent guests include Ellery E. Foutch, Sara Pappas, and Paulina Banas.
How hard is it to get booked on New Books in Art?
Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.
What topics does New Books in Art cover?
Recent episodes cover Art History, Visual Culture, Art Criticism, Museum Studies, and Cultural Studies. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.
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