Making the World at Home
March 27, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith— Picture this: a young girl sits next to a fireplace, its dim glow brightened by warm candlelight. Her head is bent, and her eyes study the piece… READ MORE
Tag: art
Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
January 5, 2024
André Dombrowski— Even an instant demands to measured. Anything but stable and discrete, an instant is never as long as a second, certainly not a minute; it is shorter than… READ MORE
Botticelli Drawings: Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Six Singing Angels
December 1, 2023
Furio Rinaldi— Striking for its large number of figures (nine) and ambitious architecture, the monumental Virgin and Child is Sandro Botticelli’s largest surviving tondo. Little is known of this important… READ MORE
533 Days: A Conversation with Laura Watkinson
April 21, 2023
In 533 Days, noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects on the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening. In this Q&A,… READ MORE
Poetry Month 2023: Mass for Shut-Ins
April 6, 2023
Mass for Shut-Ins is the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds. During… READ MORE
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
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
Art in Nazi Germany
May 6, 2019
Michael Kater— Much has been made in recent weeks in the international press of German chancellor Angela Merkel ordering pictures by Modernist painter Emil Nolde to be removed from her… READ MORE
The What and the Where of Color
December 19, 2018
David Scott Kastan & Stephen Farthing— Our lives are saturated by color. The sky above us is blue (or gray or pink or purple or nearly black). The grass we… READ MORE
The Origin of Empathy
November 21, 2018
Susan Lanzoni— Is it possible to empathize with lines in an abstract design, with the expansive reach of a tree, the sweep of a bird’s flight, or the imposing rise… READ MORE
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