History of Art Radio Hour

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A series of podcasts where Professor Geoff Batchen, Head of the History of Art Department at Oxford, engages a guest in conversation about their career and motivations as art historians. Broadcast termly on Wednesdays at 5pm.

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Talking Ukraine with Olena Chervonik

Mar 10 2022 64 mins  
A conversation between Professor Geoffrey Batchen and Ukrainian-born art history doctoral student Olena Chervonik, focusing on the history and culture of Ukraine. Recorded Friday 04.03.2022 at 17:00 Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

History of Art Radio Hour with Dipti Khera

Nov 25 2021 61 mins  
Dipti Khera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Since receiving her PhD at Columbia University on the art history of early modern South Asia, Dipti has continued her research on painted artifacts and early modern architecture emerging from western India's regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Her book, The Pl

History of Art Radio Hour with Lena Fritsch

Nov 16 2021 57 mins  
Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum, where she works on exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. Her most recent exhibition (co-curated with Clare Pollard), Tokyo: Art & Photography, is currently on display at the Ashmolean. In 2018, she authored a book titled Ravens & Red Lipstick. Japanese Photography since 1945 (

History of Art Radio Hour with Anthony Gardner

Nov 12 2021 59 mins  
Anthony Gardner is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. Anthony holds a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Art History from the University of New South Wales in Australia. His research explores the cultural politics of contemporary art, especially in the contexts of anti-imperia

History of Art Radio Hour with Mette Sandbye

Nov 09 2021 59 mins  
Mette Sandbye is a Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. With an educational background in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Cultural Communication, and a PhD on photography and memory in contemporary art, Mette specializes in photography studies. However, she also has a long career as a critic of contemporary

History of Art Radio Hour with Craig Clunas

Nov 01 2021 62 mins  
Craig Clunas (Oxford History of Art), gives a talk 13th October 2021. Craig Clunas held the chair of art history at Oxford from 2007 to 2018, the first scholar of Asian art to do so. Much of his work concentrates on the Ming period (1368-1644), with additional interests in the art of 20th century and contemporary China. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a curator at the Victoria