Follow @yaleARTbooks In celebration of National Poetry Month and the publication of The Progress of Love, we are holding a contest for all you devoted Yale ARTbooks blog followers! A collaborative project between the Menil Collection in Houston, Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, The Progress of Love invites
Read an excerpt from The Shameful Peace “Long live the shameful peace,” said writer and artist Jean Cocteau. It was World War II; France was now occupied by German forces, and the cultural elite were faced with how to survive. Frederic Spotts takes Cocteau’s offhand remark as his title in The
Ronnie Wood recently hinted that the Rolling Stones would stage a blowout concert in London’s Hyde Park to celebrate the legendary band’s 50th anniversary in 2012. As anticipation grows over this rock milestone, we look back at the extraordinary transformation of both music and the visual arts during the past