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The Thanksgiving (Playing) Table
Posted on November 21, 2012After the turkey has been carved, served, and eaten with thanks and all of the sides, after the pies have been admired and devoured, Thanksgiving Day calls for an extended […] -
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Rinpa Aesthetics and the Art of Poetry
Posted on November 12, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Caroline Hayes— Upon visiting two exhibitions currently on display in New York City on the subject of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic—at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Designing Nature: […] -
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Happy Birthday, Daphne Guinness!
Posted on November 9, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Fashion is a world with its own language, rules, and aesthetic. It is a world at once self-consciously divorced from the everyday—a place where beauty, artistry and fancy […] -
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Caro: Close Up
Posted on October 26, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum, curated the exhibition Caro: Close Up, and opened the show on October 17th with an […] -
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Exhibition Tones: “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Years, Fifty Artists”
Posted on October 19, 2012For decades, commentators have acknowledged Andy Warhol’s phenomenal impact on contemporary art. Unlike the many existing books about the artist, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Yearsis the first full-scale exploration […] -
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Lest We Forget: The 1980s As They Would Have Seemed
Posted on September 24, 2012Sarah Underwood— Growing up in the 1990s, I had conflicting, and generally superficial, views of the 1980s. Either I was proud to be “from” the previous decade – I […] -
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Robert Sterling Clark in China
Posted on August 17, 2012In 1908 Robert Sterling Clark, accompanied by a team of hand-picked professionals and support staff, explored the far reaches of Northern China and oversaw the creation of one of the […] -
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Roy Lichtenstein’s Love Affair with Chinese Landscape
Posted on August 3, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks When we’re asked to envision pop art, we tend to think of an art form that draws its objects and ideas from commercial culture: advertising, celebrity, mass production, […]