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Capturing Harlem: The Street Photography of Dawoud Bey
Posted on July 27, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks The photographer Dawoud Bey, born in 1953, is probably best known for his large-scale color photographs of marginalized groups in contemporary America, and his community-focused and collaborative approach to his […] -
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Character Sketch: The Comic That Inspired Roy Lichtenstein
Posted on June 26, 2012Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, by curators James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff (2012), accompanies an expansive Lichtenstein exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, later moving to the National Gallery […] -
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The Art and Letters of Josef Stalin
Posted on January 4, 2012A little over a month ago, newspapers announced the passing of Lana Peters. Born Svetlana Stalina, Peters was the only daughter of infamous Russian dictator Josef Stalin. After defecting to […] -
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Propaganda As Art?: Windows on the War
Posted on August 9, 2011Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, edited by Art Institute of Chicago curators Peter Kort Zegers and Douglas Druick to accompany an exhibition on view there until October 23, 2011, examines an art form that had been forgotten until now. The stenciled, handmade posters made by the Soviet TASS news agency during WWII are now available to the English-speaking public for the first time. -
![Around every May 18, the International Council of Museums organizes International Museum Day; this year’s theme is Museum and Memory. Because we at YUP admire our museum publishing partners and […]](http://artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/themes/ar2-d57c18d/images/empty_thumbnail.gif "Happy International Museum Day!")
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Happy International Museum Day!
Posted on May 18, 2011Around every May 18, the International Council of Museums organizes International Museum Day; this year’s theme is Museum and Memory. Because we at YUP admire our museum publishing partners and […] -
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Tuesday Studio: Matisse’s Radical Invention
Posted on April 13, 2010When the Art Institute of Chicago acquired Henri Matisse’s “Bathers by a River” in 1953, the artist wrote a postcard congratulating the museum, noting that he considered the painting one […]