We’re thrilled to announce a forthcoming collaboration with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. This October, they will publish, and we will distribute, a monumental and eye-poppingly gorgeous book on quilts. By Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey, and with a foreword by Ronald Hurst, Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg
In 2005, Yale University Press published David J. Roxburgh’s The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection. Choice named it an outstanding academic book of the year, it received Honorable Mention for the Saidi Sirjani Book Award sponsored by the International Society for Iranian Studies, and it was described in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art generously shared following post with the Yale ARTbooks blog. See the post on their blog. Left: The homepage of One Met. Many Worlds. Right: The cover of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide The online feature One Met. Many Worlds. launched on June 9, and The Metropolitan Museum
David Ebony— When I was in college in the mid-1970s, Carl Andre was god. For those of us striving to be serious artists, writers, and art historians, Andre was the paragon. His art was coolly intellectual, deceptively simple and austere, yet surprising and provocative. Minimalism was all the rage at
Elizabeth Malchione – Like many Yale students this summer, the Pearlman Collection is traveling abroad. Earlier this month, the exhibition Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection moved into the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, France—the second stop of its international tour. The exhibition features fifty
Nationality Doubtful, a retrospective exhibition of works by Czech photographer Josef Koudelka, is currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Koudelka’s imagery first reached international audiences and achieved great acclaim through the publication of his photographs of the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. In the decades since,
We are very excited to publish, this October, a new work by eminent art historian and art critic Thomas Crow. The paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. Today, we share with you an excerpt from the forthcoming book,
We celebrate American photographer Lee Friedlander today with a meditation on two of his recent publications. Elizabeth Malchione — As we celebrate Lee Friedlander’s 80th birthday today, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on his beginnings. His first major exhibition was “New Documents” at the Museum of Modern
One of our museum publishing partners, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has just reopened its campus. No mean feat, the expansion has been in the works for 13 years, and the results, conceived by architects Tadao Ando and Annabelle Seldorf, are spectacular. Roberta Smith has offered a very