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
May 28, 2024
Richard Brookhiser— History leans heavily on words—and that’s fine, says every publishing house. But there are other media that tell the story. The civil rights movement and America’s wars from… READ MORE
March 19, 2024
David Ebony — Perhaps the most expressive of the American Abstract Expressionists, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is internationally recognized as one of the most dynamic and influential artists of the twentieth… READ MORE
February 5, 2024
Jennifer Van Horn— How do we study an image that is no longer there, one that cannot be experienced? This question gains urgency when we consider portraits of enslaved Americans… READ MORE
October 12, 2023
This episode of the Yale University Press Podcast features a conversation with Lisa Volpe, curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, about the book and exhibition America… READ MORE
September 14, 2023
TK Smith— The William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision exhibition catalogue makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Edmondson, while stressing the critical need for more. The Barnes Foundation has… READ MORE
March 29, 2023
Interview with Eric Booker by David Ebony The late 1960s and early ’70s was a time of social upheaval, civil unrest and protests around the world, including in the United… READ MORE
May 3, 2022
Elizabeth Ferrell– Episode 4 of Netflix’s Inventing Anna (2022) includes a scene inside the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Featured prominently in the background is Jay… READ MORE
October 28, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Diana K. Tuite, the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Her exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is… READ MORE
September 30, 2021
Interview with John Beardsley by David Ebony Today, James Castle (1899-1977) is renowned for the richly nuanced surface textures of his gray-scale drawings, his moody and mystical views of the… READ MORE
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