Sarah Welcome— Since I can remember, I have loved being outdoors. All of the senses are engaged and I find the natural world infinitely fascinating and entertaining. I’m inspired by everything, from the sight of a proud robin hopping around in the grass, to the sound of a bumble bee
For May’s edition of From the Designer’s Desk we interviewed the talented Jo Ellen Ackerman on her design process. Yale University Press: Why did you pursue design, rather than, say, painting or architecture or sculpture? Jo Ellen Ackerman: When I was young, my father was the manager of a paint department that
We’re extremely excited today to launch a new series of posts on our blog. Entitled “Museum Quality Books,” this series will consist of guest posts from the knowledgeable, erudite, witty, insightful, and altogether delightful directors of publishing at the museums and galleries with whom we collaborate on books. We kick
David Ebony— Richard Estes is one of a very few painters from the original Photorealist movement of the 1960s and early ’70s who remains true to the precepts of the genre and has continued to thrive. Unlike those of many other practitioners of Photorealism, Hyperrealism or Super-realism, as the movement
A retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Carl Andre (b.1935) has just opened at Dia:Beacon. If you can get there: do; we intend to. If you can’t, this coverage on the Huffington Post features a lovely 10-minute video that includes an insightful conversation with Yasmil Raymond, the exhibition’s
Congratulations to Michael Lobel! John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration has won the 2016 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. Michael Lobel— In John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration, my new book from Yale University Press, I
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has selected the Josef Albers Interaction of Color app as the winner of the 35th Annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award. The Award Committtee described the app as ‘transformational’. It is the first time ever that the award has gone to an
The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala took place on Monday night, with all anticipated beauty, glamour, and fashion bewitchery that marks these occasions. The emphasis on elegance was heightened this year thanks to the subject of the Costume Institute exhibition: Charles James (1906–1978), the legendary Anglo-American couturier.
Jane Block— When I was first drawn to the subject of the Neo-Impressionist portrait over twenty-five years ago, I soon realized that part of the appeal was due to the wonderful complexity of the theme. Robert Herbert’s ground-breaking exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1968 first examined the
I wanted to stuff time back into the objects I was making with me hands. — Robert Morris The New York Public Library hosted an evening event recently, one in their artist dialogue series, that featured the renowned American artist Robert Morris in conversation with Julia Robinson, Assistant Professor of