May 12, 2014
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… READ MORE
May 9, 2014
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… READ MORE
May 7, 2014
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. — from “Dulce et… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
May 5, 2014
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… READ MORE
May 1, 2014
David Ebony— “Blah, Blah, Blah,” a series of recent “word paintings” by Mel Bochner, may suggest a wry comment on the banality and pointlessness in so much of our slogan-saturated… READ MORE
April 30, 2014
Follow @yaleRELIbooks Alon Confino‘s A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide centers itself around an important question: Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany… READ MORE
Follow @freudeinstein (Jennifer Michael Hecht) There is a certain myth to the idea that most suicides occur around the holidays; in fact, it’s usually in spring and summer that see… READ MORE
April 29, 2014
Last fall, we introduced you to our Spring/Summer 2014 season of books through an interactive crossword puzzle that we posted on our blog – many of the artists whose names,… READ MORE
Follow @yaleRELIbooks Read Michael Coogan’s post on the politics of the April 27 canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II Despite the Ten Commandments’ enduring power as either the… READ MORE
Fashion or Function?