{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Art","slug":"new-books-in-art-901933","podcast_index_feed_id":901933,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT4705177591","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/arts-letters/art/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7df15542-eec0-11e8-b4a4-97a34f5af7c0/image/95332b3fd53e96280ab1b1d3074e4c19.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1050,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:22:00.695519+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-art-901933"},"episode":{"title":"Es-pranza Humphrey, \"Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen\" (Poster House Museum, 2026)","slug":"es-pranza-humphrey-act-black-posters-from-black-american-stage-screen-poster-house-museum-2026","published_at":"2026-05-12T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-art-901933/es-pranza-humphrey-act-black-posters-from-black-american-stage-screen-poster-house-museum-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-art-901933","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7061620843.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7061620843.mp3","summary":"Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful stereotypes used to portray Black characters. Shows began touting “All Colored Revues” to indicate that a cast was made up of actual Black performers rather than white people in blackface, and that these spectacles aimed to build stories around the perception of Black experiences. Although these performances were sometimes flawed, and even overly prejudiced, they represented a significant form of Black American cultural development and expression. Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded, and many of the movies that featured all Black casts are now considered “lost films,” films for which no copy is known to survive, advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and 1940s. These posters, and the historic innovations of playwrights, composers, directors, producers, and the Black performers behind them, are the subjects of the exhibition, Act Black: Posters From Black American Stage and Screen, curated by our guest for this episode, Assistant Curator of Collections at New York City’s Poster House museum, Es-pranza Humphrey. Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen is on view at Poster House through September 6, 2026. Exhibition resources are also available via the Bloomberg Connects app until September 6, and at the Poster House online exhibition archive thereafter. Es-pranza’s recommended reading list is available at the Additions to the Archive Substack. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more…","meta_description":"Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":0,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-art-901933/episodes/es-pranza-humphrey-act-black-posters-from-black-american-stage-screen-poster-house-museum-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-art-901933/es-pranza-humphrey-act-black-posters-from-black-american-stage-screen-poster-house-museum-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}