Crypto Culture Care
April 20, 2021
Makoto Fujimura— As I write from the desk overlooking my Princeton farm, Bluebirds and Tree Swallows have begun to nest. The peeper frogs have serenaded our evening walks. The spring thaw… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Ep. 82 – How Photography Became Contemporary Art
April 16, 2021
As Michael S. Roth wrote in his review in The Washington Post, “The maturation of Grundberg as a renowned critic coincides with the maturation of photography as an art form… READ MORE
Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: The Model and the Artist
April 14, 2021
Margaret F. MacDonald— In 1861 Whistler wrote to his closest friend, Henri Fantin-Latour, about his work on Wapping (pictured above), and described the model, Joanna Hiffernan: “a girl who is jolly… READ MORE
Medieval Artists Painted Such Things? Images that Surprise and Delight in Illuminated World Chronicles
April 13, 2021
Nina Rowe— In the century between roughly 1330 and 1430, books known today as illuminated World Chronicles were in vogue among the upper ranks in the cities of Bavaria and… READ MORE
Ep. 81 – Alice Neel’s Deep Humanism
April 6, 2021
In a fascinating conversation that ranges from Alice Neel’s politics to her painting practice, we talk with Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey, the co-curators of the current exhibition at The… READ MORE
Swing Landscape: A Conversation on 1930s Abstract Mural Paintings
March 31, 2021
Last year Yale University Press was pleased to publish two illuminating studies of 1930s public murals: Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (selected as Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of 2020… READ MORE
The Intimate Art of Sol LeWitt
March 22, 2021
David S. Areford— Sol LeWitt. For the dedicated or even occasional museum visitor, the artist’s name conjures up expansive and colorful murals (his “wall drawings”) and equally commanding, large-scale cubic… READ MORE
Changeability for Survival: Sanford Biggers’s Codeswitch
February 18, 2021
Interview with the artist by David Ebony Sanford Biggers is a multifaceted, multi-talented artist with a singular, global vision. A major touring museum solo of works by the Los Angeles-born (1970),… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Jennifer A. Pruitt on Five Influential Texts
February 17, 2021
In my work, I strive to understand how diverse populations of people used and experienced architecture in the medieval Islamic world. The texts I have chosen for my personal canon… READ MORE
… in which Nick Mauss answers some questions about Transmissions
February 16, 2021
Transmissions is an installation, a collage of several art forms, a revisionist investigation of New York modernism and sexual expression, and an essay in queer theory…. The juxtapositions show that… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic