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Adrian Rifkin’s work broaches a wide range of academic fields including art history, cinema, image culture, popular and classical music, literature, pornography, cultural history and cultural theory. His books to date include Street Noises: Studies in Parisian Pleasure, 1900-40 (Manchester University Press, 1993), Ingres Then, and Now (Routledge, 1999) and most recently Communards and Other Cultural Histories (edited by Steve Edwards, Haymarket, 2018) – a collection of essays spanning the last four decades. Rifkin has also curated two exhibitions (with Grant Watson) dedicated to the aesthetics and politics of the British composer and improviser Cornelius Cardew, held at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2008) and The Drawing Room, London (2009). In recent years, Rifkin’s teaching and research have focused extensively on the relationship between art education and radical pedagogy.