Visual culture: Critical seeing for the 21st century
February 2, 2021
“Visual culture is never neutral, and is thus never without value.”
Category: Art
Breaching the borders between art and technology: In conversation with W. Patrick McCray
October 22, 2020
McCray, author of Making Art Work, argues that some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art were breached.
Big (theatre) data: Announcing Databases, Revenues, and Repertory
A new, interactive open access publication offers insight into the French stage during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Author Talk: Visual Culture by Alexis Boylan
September 10, 2020
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Alexis Boylan, author of Visual Culture.
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Pamela Lee, author of Think Tank Aesthetics
July 14, 2020
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Pamela Lee, author of Think Tank Aesthetics.
Gabriel Levine reads from Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings, with art by Annie Katsura Rollins
July 13, 2020
Gabriel Levine reads from his new book Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings, with shadow puppet art by Annie Katsura Rollins.
Overlooked histories of the Bauhaus: In conversation with Elizabeth Otto
May 26, 2020
A conversation with Elizabeth Otto, author of recent MIT Press book Haunted Bauhaus.
Book Trailer for Picturing Science and Engineering
December 26, 2018
Watch the book trailer for Picturing Science and Engineering
Women in Translation Month with Penny Hueston
August 22, 2017
August is Women in Translation Month. For this post we have Penny Hueston, translator of the forthcoming Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by French author Marie Darrieussecq. Penny discusses translating this book, as well as providing biographical information on Marie Darrieussecq, and the subject of the book, Paula Modersohn-Becker.