In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing Podcast
1) The Evidentiary and the Black Body
In this final episode of the miniseries, Erica Moiah James speaks with her friend and colleague, Sora Han. Erica and Sora were fellows at the Clark Art Institute together in 2024. While Erica was work...Show More
2) Creole in the Archive
In this episode, Erica Moiah James talks with Roshini Kempadoo, media artist, photographer, and scholar, whose book Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure,...Show More
3) Connoisseurship and the Work of Naming
4) Fashion and the Construction of Race
In the second episode of this miniseries, Portrait of a Young Woman, Erica Moiah James discusses the importance of fashion in understanding this portrait and the life of this woman. She speaks with hi...Show More
5) Curating History and Race
In this first episode of our new miniseries, Erica Moiah James introduces the 18th-century pastel Portrait of a Young Woman, shares her experience first encountering the work at the Saint Louis Art Mu...Show More
6) “Fragmentary Ruins and the Enduring Image”: Cammy Brothers on Drawing as a Way of Thinking
In this final episode of the season focused on the craft of writing, Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator in the Research and Academic Program) speaks with Cammy Brothers, a scholar of art a...Show More
7) "A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery
In this episode, Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator in the Research and Academic Program) speaks with Jennifer Nelson, a poet and scholar of early modern art at the University of Delaware....Show More
8) “To Give Shape to a Way of Seeing the Past”: Shira Brisman on the Intimacy of Writing the History of Social Art
In this continuation of a season focused on the craft of writing in art history, Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator in the Research and Academic Program) speaks to Shira Brisman, a histori...Show More
9) “The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World
This is the first episode of a new season focused on the craft of writing in art history. Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator for the Research and Academic Program and a fiction writer) spe...Show More
10) "On Living Archives": Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices
In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program) speaks with artist and curator Tsedaye Makonnen about her multidisciplinary studio, curatorial, and research-...Show More