This guest post from Kirsten Swenson conjures a 1960s moment in art both through specific objects that were created then – and continue to exist today – and through a masterful evocation of the ethos that animated a group of artists working at that time. For more, do read her
The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and continue to shape, the dynamic and unyielding land known as the western United States. As Rick Brettell writes in the
The recent coverage of artist Ai Weiwei’s planned use of Legos in an artwork about free speech to be included in the exhbition “Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei” at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia (book forthcoming early next year) has sensitized us to other examples of the play blocks’
This Saturday, December 12th, we’ll be at the Aperture Foundation Holiday Book Bazaar (547 W 27th St in New York) with a fine selection of books on and of photography. We’re thrilled that artist TR Ericsson, whose book Crackle & Drag was shortlisted this year for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook
American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979, which is out this week, is the first book to fully explore the ceramic movement alongside the societal trends that shaped it and the organizations that propelled the movement. Author Martha Drexler Lynn considers the movement’s fluctuation across geographic regions as well as stylistic
If you are in or near New York City – or plan to be over the next week – you have the marvelous opportunity to see photographs taken in Calcutta by Laura McPhee at The Benrubi Gallery in Chelsea. And – it gets better – you have two chances to
With thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, here’s an interview between Rachel High, Publishing and Marketing Assistant in the Editorial Department at the Museum, and Adela Oppenheim, Curator in the department of Egyptian Art at the Museum and co-author with Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, and Kei Yamamoto of the stunning
Ivy Sanders Schneider– The American photographer Donald Blumberg has the eye of a scientist. Like slides enlarged and displayed, his photographs are data points: watch the news coverage of the Newtown Massacre shift over the course of the day; watch a couple exit Patrick’s Cathedral over the course of a
In the brand-new book Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700, author Elisabeth de Bièvre explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in turn, fundamentally informed the art and visual culture of individual cities. In seven chapters, each devoted to a single city,
Our Designers Talk Book Covers “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” the popular adage goes. But, as humans, we often do just that. In this edition of From the Designer’s Desk, and as part of the 2015 AAUP blog tour, our Yale University Press book designers (Nancy Ovedovitz, Design