Above featured image credits: Left: Iris van Herpen (Dutch, born 1984). Ensemble, spring/summer 2010 haute couture. 3D-printed (SLS) white polyamide, machine-sewn white goat leather, and hand-cut acrylic fringe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2015 (2016.16a, b). Photo © Nicholas Alan Cope.
Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg—a telegram that stated, “This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so”—this groundbreaking book and exhibition, which opens today at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, trace the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as
A century after his death, the breadth and richness of American painter William Merritt Chase’s career are celebrated in a beautifully illustrated book, William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master, by Elsa Smithgall, Erica E. Hirshler, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Giovanna Ginex, and John Davis, and with a foreword by D. Frederick Baker. The
Jessica Helfand— Not long ago, at an elegant garden party, I was introduced to an equally elegant British woman who, after the usual pro forma pleasantries that precede normal conversation, asked how I had lost my husband. I replied briefly and factually that he had been diagnosed with a brain
The exhibition Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei, which debut at the National Gallery Victoria, in Australia, earlier this year, has just opened at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The show is accompanied by a stellar new book of the same title, edited by Max Delany and Eric Shiner and
To mark the Queen’s birthday parade on June 11th, architectural historian Kathryn Morrison, author of Apethorpe: The Story of an English Country House, has written a marvelously entertaining guest post recounting a “royal progress” that saw kings and queens from James I through to George IV visiting this fascinating and architecturally significant
“With the publication of a lavish monograph, ROBERTO BURLE MARX: Brazilian Modernist (Jewish Museum / Yale University, $50), the work of this great midcentury landscape architect, who invented the modernist tropical garden, will become better known.” –Dominique Browning in the Sunday, June 5th issue of the New York Times Book Review We
The work of German printmaker and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was celebrated through two recent exhibitions: the first was held at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Fall 2015 and the second at the Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2016. The accompanying book titled Käthe Kollwitz and the
The previously unpublished diaries of pioneering German-born American artist Eva Hesse offer an intimate portrait of the personal and artistic challenges, and triumphs, of an extraordinary artist whose career was curtailed by her untimely death. The diaries – which begin in 1955 – describe Hesse’s time at Yale University, a sojourn in
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell and her splendid new book Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette will be honored with the Millia Davenport Publication Award tomorrow, Friday, May 27th at the 42nd annual Costume Society of America Meeting and Symposium in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s written a guest post for us