Welcome to the second edition of our new series, Museum Quality Books. We last heard from Diane Lovejoy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; today, Tiffany Sprague, Director of Publications and Editorial Services at the Yale University Art Gallery, explains how books have provided transportation for her above and beyond
Dear readers, thank you for responding with both words and pictures to our recent contests. We love hearing from you. Please stay tuned for more opportunities soon to win copies of our marvelous books. Congratulations to the following winners of our recent posts, presented in reverse chronological order. The vacation
From our London colleagues— Yale’s series of books cataloguing the complete paintings of John Singer Sargent nears completion with the release of the penultimate volume. The project has been a magnificent endeavor – the first volume in the series was published in 1998 – and with the completion of Volume VIII we are taking
Would you like to see some of the breathtakingly beautiful books that Yale University Press has published in the past year, as well as books we’ve co-published with or distributed for many of the world’s most prestigious art museums? Are you a fan of Sonic Youth and would like to
September’s edition of From the Designer’s Desk brings us wise and enchanting words from the estimable Daphne Geismar, a book and website designer with her own firm. Why did you pursue design, rather than, say, painting or architecture or sculpture? I’m interested in people and their stories. As a designer,
With thanks to our friends at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we’re very pleased to post today an interview between Eric Kjellgren, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Rachel High,
The beloved 19th-century artist Vincent van Gogh was a prolific letter-writer. His letters are at turns descriptive, confessional, and insightful; when the 6-volume, 2500-page, annotated and illustrated edition of his full correspondence was published in 2009, The Economist review ended with this line “This could be the best autobiography of an
Our post last week that featured YUP staff vacation photos inspired one of our colleagues to share with us an additional trove of architectural shots that were taken during travels over this past summer. Her journey through the country’s mid section — Indiana, Wisconsin — resulted in beautiful shots of buildings by architectural
It’s back to school time again, with all of the portent of wonderful books yet unread, brilliant lectures yet unheard. It also means, of course, that summer vacation is over. We still have our memories of the summer’s travels, and the photographs. It’s interesting to see how different holiday destinations
We keep going back to Miko McGinty’s From the Designer’s Desk post, both for the lovely text and the wonderful images. We expect to do the same with Part 2 of August’s From the Designer’s Desk installation, from Rita Jules. Rita Jules— The Bard Graduate Center’s History of Design was