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Building Seagram
Posted on April 29, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons […] -
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Garry Winogrand Photo Contest!
Posted on April 25, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks The vision of America that photographer Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) captured in his lifetime has evolved since his death, but his photographs capture a timeless essence of the nation.. […] -
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Arthur Danto on What Art Is
Posted on April 23, 2013Arthur Danto, the influential art critic and a professor emeritus of aesthetics and history at Columbia University, once famously declared the End of Art. “In our narrative, at first only mimesis […] -
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Announcing Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary App
Posted on April 19, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Follow @YalePevsner The perfect way to check architectural terms when you are out and about, exploring buildings. Just in time for National Landscape Architecture month, Yale University Press […] -
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Love Poetry Contest!
Posted on April 17, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks In celebration of National Poetry Month and the publication of The Progress of Love, we are holding a contest for all you devoted Yale ARTbooks blog followers! A collaborative project […] -
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Eva Hesse: “Pre-Sculpture”
Posted on April 4, 2013Kirsten Swenson, a contributor to the new book, Eva Hesse 1965, edited by Barry Rosen, writes here on the artist’s important transitions beginning in the last five years of her short […] -
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Notes from the Field: Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
Posted on March 20, 2013Monumental is a word often applied to descriptions of Jay DeFeo’s The Rose. With an estimated weight of 2,000-3,000 pounds, “monumental” is hardly a misnomer. However what might strike visitors […] -
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Brian Neher’s 2013 “You Be the Judge” Art Contest
Posted on March 14, 2013Once more, artist Brian Neher is hosting an art contest, “You be the Judge”. Every two weeks for the next seven weeks, Neher will choose 15 works that artists have […] -
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Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Posted on March 5, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century opens with Giovanni’s Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady, which features a popular society woman seated on an […] -
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Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
Posted on April 20, 2012In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. Last year, Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect widely known for her dynamic and innovative […]