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August 23, 2011
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Shape Up: Understanding Cubism with Picasso and Braque

August 23, 2011
in Humanities

“I continue to enjoy looking at Cubist pictures as much as I ever did, but I have come increasingly to realize that I do not really understand them, and I am not sure that anyone else does either,” wrote art historian John Golding in 1959. Considering that comes from Cubism:

June 22, 2011
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Rediscovering Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome

June 22, 2011
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Very few of Caravaggio’s works survive, and yet his considerable influence on Baroque painters across Europe is the subject of a new exhibition, “Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome” at the National Gallery of Canada, traveling to the Kimbell Art Museum later this fall. Most recently, an unknown portrait by Caravaggio has been uncovered, dating approximately to the year 1600 when the Italian artist was at his height.

May 18, 2011
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Happy International Museum Day!

May 18, 2011
in Humanities

Around every May 18, the International Council of Museums organizes International Museum Day; this year’s theme is Museum and Memory. Because we at YUP admire our museum publishing partners and their contributions to a global society, here are some exhibitions on view now around the world, with books available from

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Shape Up: Understanding Cubism with Picasso and Braque

Rediscovering Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome

Happy International Museum Day!