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Season 6 (2024)

In this season, Sara Houghteling, former special projects coordinator for RAP and a novelist, speaks with scholars about the craft of writing in art history, and invites each to read selected passages from their work.

In the Foreground is available on iTunesSpotify, and anywhere else you may listen to podcasts.

March 5: “The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World

March 12: “To Give Shape to a Way of Seeing the Past”: Shira Brisman on the Intimacy of Writing the History of Social Art

March 19: “A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery 

March 26: “Fragmentary Ruins and the Enduring Image”: Cammy Brothers on Drawing as a Way of Thinking

acknowledgEments 

In the Foreground was co-created by Caro Fowler and Caitlin Woolsey, who also produces and edits the podcast; music by lightchaser; audio mixing by CJ DeGennaro; and additional support provided by Sara Houghteling and Annie Jun