Ep. 99 – Why Does the Museum Matter?
January 19, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Daniel H. Weiss, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, about his new book… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
Documenting History: The Paper Legacy Project
January 17, 2023
Mindell Dubansky — Who in my field had received the attention they deserve; and whose artistic contributions might disappear from the history of the book in the near future? How… READ MORE
Ep. 97 – John Singer Sargent’s Lifelong Interest in Spain
December 14, 2022
In this episode of our podcast, we talk with Sarah Cash, associate curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, about the new exhibition and… READ MORE
Ep. 96 – The Art, Myths, and Gods of the Ancient Maya
December 7, 2022
In this episode of our podcast, we talk to professor and curator Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos about two books: Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, which accompanies an exhibition… READ MORE
Ep. 94 – Witold Rybczynski Tells the Story of Architecture
November 30, 2022
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Witold Rybczynski about his new book, The Story of Architecture, which follows an elegant, winding, narrative path through… READ MORE
Chemical Lace and Connecting St. Gallen to New York and New Jersey
November 29, 2022
A New York Times best art book of 2022! Emma Cormack — Now on view at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York, the exhibition Threads of Power: Lace from… READ MORE
The Past and Future of Art History Is Black Feminist Art History
Sarah Louise Cowan — In 1993, artist and art historian Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis called for a “Black feminist art history discourse” that would “prioritize the lives and concerns of… READ MORE
Edward Hopper’s Public and Private New York
November 17, 2022
Interview with Kim Conaty by David Ebony As resilient as ever, New York City is slowly but surely emerging from the pandemic’s trials and tribulations as a renewed, revitalized, and… READ MORE
Italy in the British Imagination
November 9, 2022
Beth Saunders— In their introduction to The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840–1890, editors Antonella Pelizzari and Scott Wilcox explain that the very idea of Italy was,… READ MORE
The Fantasy of the “tabula rasa”: Modernist Urbanism in Brazil
November 1, 2022
Adrian Anagnost— Brazilian Experiments Modernist urbanism was rooted in a fantasy of the tabula rasa. City space would be created anew, buildings inserted into blank landscapes — a vision of… READ MORE
Writing a History of Ignorance