Ansel Adams, in the beginning
March 16, 2020
A short Q and A with the author of a new book that explores the little-known early career of one of America’s most celebrated and beloved photographers: Making a Photographer:… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
A Personal Canon: Katie Hornstein on Five Influential Texts
March 11, 2020
My recent book, Picturing War in France, is ostensibly about war imagery produced during the first half of the nineteenth century in France. It is also a book about questions… READ MORE
Horace Pippin’s Self Portraits
February 22, 2020
Anne Monahan — Horace Pippin (1888-1946) painted two self-portraits in the 1940s on his way to becoming the decade’s most successful black artist. Both evince an indifference to illusionistic perspective… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: K. L. H. Wells on Five Influential Texts
February 11, 2020
My development as an art historian has been profoundly shaped by the legacy of modernism and its relationship to decoration, craft, and design. In chronological order, here are five books… READ MORE
Indigenous Agency and the Contingency of Empire
January 31, 2020
Kate Fullagar— December 10, 1776: one day—three vastly distant corners of the world. In the southern-most peaks of the American Appalachians, a Cherokee warrior called Ostenaco sits before the fire… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Benjamin Anderson on Five Influential Texts
January 13, 2020
Art history may have or be an archive (even a canon!), but it is also a process of translation, remediation, and remaking. Here are five nodes in a network: Robert… READ MORE
Mechanics, Choreography, and Gender Roles
January 2, 2020
Emily Coates and Sarah Demers— The relationship between forces described in Newton’s 3rd Law enables us to perform all of our daily actions—sitting, standing, walking, running, skipping, jumping. Whereas physicists… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Patricia Mainardi on Five Influential Texts
December 18, 2019
In thinking about writing that has been important to me, I chose publications that did not simply tell me something previously unknown but rather shaped my conceptual framework by opening… READ MORE
Resilient Design: Innovation for Future Uncertainty
November 26, 2019
Jon Coaffee— Recent scientific research has revealed that we have drastically underestimated the threat of climate change, with the impacts of sea level rise and extreme weather abnormalities likely to be felt… READ MORE
Ep. 78 – L.A. graffiti in a whole new light
November 21, 2019
Susan A. Phillips talks about her deeply researched study of Los Angeles graffiti that includes marks made by hobos, prisoners, pachucos, surfers, punks, grips, taggers, seafarers, and more. YaleUniversity ·… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic