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Lest We Forget: The 1980s As They Would Have Seemed

Sarah Underwood—   Growing up in the 1990s, I had conflicting, and generally superficial, views of the 1980s. Either I was proud to be “from” the previous decade – I was born in 1989 – like cooler, older teenagers (my babysitters), or I was glad that I had essentially escaped

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Robert Sterling Clark in China

In 1908 Robert Sterling Clark, accompanied by a team of hand-picked professionals and support staff, explored the far reaches of Northern China and oversaw the creation of one of the first maps of a largely uncharted area of the world. Before this expedition, Clark served in the army in the

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Love Affair with Chinese Landscape

Follow @yaleARTbooks When we’re asked to envision pop art, we tend to think of an art form that draws its objects and ideas from commercial culture: advertising, celebrity, mass production, etc. What we don’t tend to associate this particular movement with is the painterly. After all, one of the proclaimed

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Stephen Brown on Edouard Vuillard and the Three Muses

Reflective of his membership in the close-knit theatrical and literary circles of turn-of-the-century Paris, French avant-garde artist Edouard Vuillard’s work is a study in intimacy.  Here, curator Stephen Brown, author of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, gives us a glimpse into some of the intimate spaces and relationships

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In Commemoration of Lucian Freud

Follow @yaleARTbooks Painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, died on this day one year ago, and it is on this anniversary that we reflect on the English artist’s extraordinary legacy.  Perhaps best-known for his nude portraits, Freud perfected his style of portraiture during a period in the history of

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July Theme: Latin America

In a year crowded with international events like the Olympics—and yes, the 2012 U.S. presidential election—it might seem appropriate to repeat last July’s Global and  International Studies theme, but instead, we’d like to broaden the relevance by narrowing the point; focusing our attention on one “corner” of the world and

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Character Sketch: The Comic That Inspired Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, by curators James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff (2012), accompanies an expansive Lichtenstein exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, later moving to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., then to the Tate Modern in London, and finally to the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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How Do We Curate a Global Collection?

Contemporary curation must again and again situate art exhibition within a global conversation. The Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art exhibition currently at the Seattle Art Museum affords the museum an opportunity to embrace a fresh strategy for staging global art. The curatorial event provides an exchange among a diverse collection

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Notes from the Field: Schiaparelli and Prada at The Met’s Costume Institute

“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” which opens today, May 10, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been long awaited by those eager to see firsthand the ties that bind these two women from very different generations. Elsa Schiaparelli came to fame in Paris amidst the Surrealist milieu of the

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YUP’s Fall 2012 Catalog!

Yale University Press’s Fall/Winter 2012 catalog, announcing the list of titles to be published from August 2012 to January 2013, is now available online. The cover image from Susan Jacoby’s forthcoming The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought makes a strong connection with this month’s Thinkers theme, and on

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