“[Art] is stuff that people make that carries meaning,” Dr. Lee Ann Custer says. Custer is a new art and architectural history postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt. Custer work has been supported by institutions such as the Smithsonian and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Currently, Custer research is interested in the utilization, commodification and artistic interpretation of air in urban New York City from 1880 to 1940, about which we talk in this episode.