Margarita Tupitsyn discusses Moscow Vanguard Art
2017 is the centenary of the Russian Revolution, yet five years later, after the Soviet Regime was established, a profound cultural shift was taking…
Art History
Gardens of Court and Country – Celebrating Hampton Court Flower Show
To celebrate this Year’s Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the Yale Books Blog is in conversation with David Jacques about his…
Enlightened Princesses: How they Shaped the Modern World
Joanna Marschner introduces her new book Enlightened Princesses, which accompanies a landmark exhibition showcasing the valuable and important possessions of three powerful and significant…
Magda Cordell, the Lost Brutalist
The Art of Brutalism is an engaging and expansive look at the Brutalist art produced in Britain between 1952 and 1962. Ben Highmore sheds light…
Eclectic and Inclusive: Inside the Association of Art Historians Conference 2017
This year the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference will focus on inclusivity and diversity in the field of art history. In reaching across…
Picture a Revolution: Russian and Soviet Art Books from Yale
2017 marks a century since the revolutionary year that brought about the fall of the Russian Empire and ushered in the rise of the…
Depression Era Painting and Its Resonance: America After the Fall – an extract
As the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition America After the Fall arrives at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, we delve into the accompanying…
Centre Pompidou at 40: Yale Books in conversation with Francesco Dal Co
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’s iconic Centre Pompidou in Paris will celebrate its 40th anniversary this week. Architectural historian, and former professor of the…
Celebrating the life & work of architectural historian James S. Ackerman
On the last day of 2016 the world lost one of its foremost architectural historians when James S. Ackerman died, age 97. Ackerman was…
Mapping the Medieval City – Jerusalem 1000-1400 at The Met
Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international centre, home to multiple cultures, faiths and languages. Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, which accompanies The Metropolitan…
English Medieval Embroidery at the V&A London • an appreciation
One of this winter’s landmark exhibitions has been Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. To accompany the show…
Richard Ormond looks back on the making of John Singer Sargent, The Complete Paintings
To celebrate completion of John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings, Richard Ormond – Sargent’s great nephew and co-author of the series – shares his thoughts…
On His Way to The Met • Max Beckmann in New York, with Curator Sabine Rewald
New York energised the German Expressionist Max Beckmann and stimulated his imagination when he lived there from September 1949 to December 1950. Max Beckmann…
Join Vincent on his journey in The Vincent van Gogh Atlas
The Vincent van Gogh Atlas: join us on a nineteenth-century journey with celebrated artist Vincent van Gogh as he travelled across Europe, on a…
Neuroarthistory: John Onians reenvisions the history of European art
European Art: A Neuroarthistory, by John Onians ‘The innovativeness of European art is the product not so much of intense thinking as of intense looking’…