Quilts are, at their core, functional items, but they nonetheless occupy a special place in art history. Since the 16th century, beginning in India and the Mediterranean and spreading across the world, quilts have acted as creative outlets and record keepers for those outside the world of traditional high art. Quilts can be made by anyone with access
Today we’re sharing a new dispatch from the blog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a conversation between Rachel High, Editorial Assistant at the Museum, and Dita Amory, curator of The Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and also curator of the current exhibition Madame Cézanne and author of
We’re getting into the spirit of giving early this year: keep checking this blog over the coming weeks for plenty of chances to win copies of marvelous art and architecture titles. Today, an opportunity to win a copy of The World Atlas of Street Photography! Photography and the city have
David Ebony— Ed Ruscha’s name is synonymous with the Los Angeles Pop art movement of the early 1960s. His work, however, has an appeal and importance that transcends merely regional concerns and conventions. Ruscha’s five-decade exploration of the American vernacular in photographs, films, paintings, artist books and works on paper,
Ivy Sanders Schneider– The Sculpture Victorious exhibition at the YCBA greets viewers with two busts of Queen Victoria. The first is of Victoria at 21 – positioned at eye level, she appears youthful and pretty, her face bright, her shoulders exposed. The second bust, behind and to the right of
Richard Hendel is a true dignitary in the world of book design. His work has won nearly every possible award, including from the Association of American University Presses, AIGA, Print magazine, Chicago Book Clinic, Leipzig Book Fair, and National Book Award. He is currently a freelance designer, but has been a book
In celebration of the publication of Grand Design, one of two excellent, brand new books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (more on the other book to come…), we’re pleased to share a most illuminating interview from the Met’s blog, between the exhibition’s curator (and book’s editor), Elizabeth Cleland, and
Did you know, before winning fame and fortune for his invention of the single wire telegraph, Samuel Morse spent his early life as a painter? After graduating from Yale College in 1810, Morse spent over two decades as an artist, taking two separate trips and spending a total of five
Alexander Gardner is deservedly famous for his photographs of the American Civil War, though his body of work includes images taken both before and after the war. A current exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and its accompanying catalogue, deal with Gardner’s western photographs taken in 1867 and 1868.
Mark Polizzotti has translated more than forty books from French, including the newly released Suspended Sentences by this year’s Nobel laureate in literature, Patrick Modiano. Mark wrote a lovely commentary on translating Modiano for the Yale Books Unbound blog. Mark is also the publisher and editor in chief at The Metropolitan Museum of