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Podcast interview with Joan Marter, editor of Women of Abstract Expressionism
Posted on July 28, 2016Welcome to our first Yale University Press art+architecture book podcast! We’ve interviewed Joan Marter, Rutgers professor and editor of the recently-published Women of Abstract Expressionism (which accompanies an exhibition currently […] -
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Black Mountain College: A Progressive Education
Posted on February 21, 2016The “landmark,” “deeply researched,” “curatorial triumph” of an exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 opens today, February 21st, at UCLA’s Hammer Museum, having finished its successful run […] -
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Beauty & freedom, guise & dolls: Warhol & Mapplethorpe
Posted on October 17, 2015The exciting exhibition Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls opened this weekend at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Focusing on New York in the 1970s and early 80s, […] -
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Sneak peek: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
Posted on August 12, 2015For your reading pleasure (and it is a pleasure): a sneak preview of an exciting, forthcoming book by Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. […] -
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Liberating Love: Anthony Friedkin’s “The Gay Essay” / Interview with Nayland Blake by David Ebony
Posted on October 10, 2014David Ebony— This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York. It was a pivotal moment in U.S. history when gay men and lesbians forcefully challenged […] -
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Modern architecture, on holiday
Posted on September 5, 2014Our post last week that featured YUP staff vacation photos inspired one of our colleagues to share with us an additional trove of architectural shots that were taken during travels over this […]