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Impossible Outfit: PUNK Edition
Posted on June 7, 2013Dear Paper Doll, My 35th high school reunion is approaching. Though you’d hardly know it to look at me now – I’m an anesthesiologist (I claim this career choice was […] -
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File Under: What We Wish We Could Be Doing This Weekend: Abelardo Morell at the AIC
Posted on May 31, 2013We have been stealing moments here at the office to thumb through the revelatory book Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, a catalogue accompanying an exhibition of the photographer’s work that […] -
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Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
Posted on May 13, 2013For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. to focus on his art collecting—arguably his greatest passion—and his […] -
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Win a Copy of Shoe Obsession !
Posted on May 3, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks May 21, 2013 Update: Thanks to all our stylish entrants on our Pinterest Shoe Obsession contest! We’ve selected a design by Svenja Ritter, uploaded by Crisia M of Australia, as […] -
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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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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 […]