May 19, 2014
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,… READ MORE
May 16, 2014
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn… READ MORE
May 15, 2014
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… READ MORE
May 14, 2014
Get the ebook of The Glatstein Chronicles for only 2.99 via Open Road Media this Jewish American Heritage Month! In 1934 and with World War II steadily nearing, Jacob Glatstein, one… READ MORE
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
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life