Ep. 137 – Interacting with Color
June 13, 2024
Fritz Horstman, the education director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, talks us through some of the ideas in his new book, Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Why Does Paris Look the Way it Does?
June 6, 2024
The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris is a cross-disciplinary investigation of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space. Here, author Min… READ MORE
Sargent Claude Johnson and Black American Modernism
June 3, 2024
Dennis Carr, Jacqueline Francis, and John P. Bowles – As a mixed-raced American artist attempting to find new ways to represent the Black figure in art, Sargent Claude Johnson developed… READ MORE
Ep. 136 – All About Portraits
May 30, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Alison Manges Nogueira and Kathryn Calley Galitz, both of whom work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and… READ MORE
Rochelle Gurstein on The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
May 22, 2024
In Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art, intellectual historian and critic Rochelle Gurstein explores the nature of the classic in art from the 18th century… READ MORE
Underpainting/Overthinking
May 20, 2024
“Too bad! What? Isn’t he going – back?” Yes, but you understand him badly when you complain. He is going back like anybody who wants to attempt a big jump.”… READ MORE
The Naseby Cup: A Numismatic and Historical Treasure at Yale
May 14, 2024
Benjamin D. R. Hellings— As custodian and curator of the Yale University Art Gallery’s numismatic collection, I have the responsibility to oversee approximately 200,000 objects: coins, medals, tokens, bank notes,… READ MORE
Ep. 135 – What’s in a Building?
April 30, 2024
In this episode, British architect Charles Holland explores the methods and importance of experiencing architecture in our everyday lives, the subject of his new book, How to Enjoy Architecture: A… READ MORE
The Elusive Archive
April 23, 2024
Despina Stratigakos— How I wish this book had existed when I was a student pursuing the fugitive histories of women architects! In the 1990s publications on women in architecture were… READ MORE
We Love You, Yoko
April 9, 2024
Kathleen Hanna— Yoko Ono was the first punk rock singer I ever heard, an early proponent of female rebellion in song. My parents didn’t go to college, and we didn’t… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life