Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Wee...

I interviewed Kara Nichols about Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color which starts this Friday, May 11 and runs through Jan. 13 at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. Kara worked on this exhibition for her curatoria...

This week JT McParlin is back on the podcast to talk about Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971). As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

This week JT McParlin was on the podcast, he is a Masters candidate at the Parsons Cooper Hewitt Program, and we are talking about the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). We were planning on also doing a later film by Ku...

Kayla Seifert (from the Contemporary Painting episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book and the transformation after WWI when cookbooks began to be mass produced. As usual all images will be ...

Sylvia Ferguson (from the Henry Dreyfuss episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about entertainment, ethnography, and eugenic displays at the World’s Fair. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast Here ar...

Sydney Friedman (from the Bersa pattern episode) is back this week to talk about the Jogbra. Which came about at a time when

The DecArts podcast is back! I am excited to start the year off with an object. Hannah Winiker comes on to talk about bandboxes. For anyone who isn’t familiar with bandboxes they are functional and decorative objects that held men’s collars and...

This week I interview Noelle Kichura, a Masters candidate at the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt History of Design and Curatorial program, about her proposed thesis.Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed.

This week I talked to Molly Martien, a Masters Candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program for History of Design and Curatorial Studies. She wrote a paper that she will be presenting at the MAPACA conference in November on SNCC and 1960’s desig...

I talk with Khyati Sheth to talk about the Alvar Aalto - Art and the Modern Form exhibition, which was at the Ateneum Museum this summer.THE ALVAR AALTO MUSEUM: http://www.ateneum.fi/nayttelyt/alvar-aalto/?lang=enPAIMIO SANATORIUM: http://www.paim...

This week Sydney Friedman and I talked about Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) and the Bersa pattern. This is part one of a two part series that focuses on Scandinavian design. Check out the pictures for this episode at the @DecArtsPodcast twitter feed.Na...

This week Kara Nichols talks about the exhibition Fringe Elements at Kent State University Museum which runs from July 2017 to July 2018. Follow the DecArts podcast on Twitter @DecArtspodcastEXHIBIT: https://www.kent.edu/museum/event/fringe-elemen...

This week Sylvia Ferguson talks about American, Industrial Designer, Henry Dreyfuss and consumerism in post-war America. Sidenotes: Gayle Davidson was Sylvia’s professor and the name on the sale of the lavatory drawing. Crane Co. sold to American ...

This week Annaleigh is on the podcast to talk about her time out at Taliesin this summer and the most current exhibit on at MoMa, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1660?locale=enTALIESIN: ht...

This week Hannah Winiker is on the podcast talking about how she preserved the stories of southern families through their collections of antiques such as paintings, furniture, silver, textiles, and portrait miniatuers. QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Rosalie ...

This week I sat down with Trang Tran to talk about Archizoom and Radical Italian Designers in the 1960’s. EXHIBIT: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/ettore-sottsass1968 BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/1968-Photographs-Maurizio-Cattel...

This week I had a conversation about advertising and packaging in the dairy world with Rachel Hannicut. Please excuse the technical difficulties, it was a rough Thursday for electronics.

Brooklyn Gallagher (@brooklynngallagher) and I sat down for a new extension of the DecArts podcast, which is the tipsy Thursday episode (created while in Paris). Basically Brooklyn and I did a version of Drunk History. I asked Brooklyn to help me ...

This week I am broadcasting from Paris and was able to sit down with Adèle Bourbonne to talk about a couple of her classes on French 18th century interior luxury trends.MOBILIER NATIONAL: http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.frFURNITURE PIECES...

This week I discusses Nick Lopes' paper on Graphic Design in Contemporary European-style Board Games that he wrote for Jeremy Aynsley's class on Issues in Graphic Design. If you are interested in looking into these games further visit:https://boar...

This week Elizabeth Muir and I had a foodie talk about Julia Child’s ‘The Art of French Cooking’. The thesis we mentioned is by Ashley R. Armes, B.A. ‘Image of Nation, Image of Culture: France and French Cooking in the American Press, 1918-1969’, ...

This week I had a lengthy and fun chat with Ria Murray, a Master’s candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program, about Hector Guimard’s stylistic innovations in standardized design. OBJECT OF THE DAY: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/04/03/buil...

This week I have a quick chat with Lily Gildor about the life of designer Florence Knoll and her impact on office interiors. *side note we forgot Knoll's second husband's name, it was Harry Hood Bassett. CRANBROOK http://www.cranbrookartmuseum.org...

This week I talk with Kayla about her undergraduate Senior thesis project. ARTIST SPACE http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/2019MET TOURS https://www.shadyladiestours.com/nasty-women-metropolitan/MARILYN MINTER https://www.brooklynmuseum....