“The exhibition catalog fairly glows with transcendent images, many of which are nominally landscapes that are less descriptive than visionary reactions to the natural world.” —Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle Chiura Obata …
Read More >Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, collected together in a three-volume set.
Read More >By Lia Tjandra, UC Press Art Director, with Jessica Moll, UC Press Senior Editor There is a special kind of excitement I feel when designing a book series. It’s more challenging than …
Read More >Ronald Rael’s “Teeter-Totter Wall” conceptualization from Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary became a reality today. Custom built see-saws were transported by Ronald and his crew to Sunland Park, …
Read More >Peter Selz, centenarian, influential art historian, prolific author, internationally celebrated curator, and the founding director of the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley (now Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) peacefully passed …
Read More >We congratulate UC Berkeley art historian Lauren Kroiz, whose book Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era has been unanimously selected as the overall winner of the …
Read More >The first major museum exhibition in more than 30 years presenting the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911–1960), opened on June 2 at The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth. The …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 The following excerpt is from Abstract Crossings: Cultural Exchange between Argentina and Brazil by …
Read More >Founded in 1950, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts played a central role in the development of American art and craft. The artists of the school’s early years—Anni Albers, Dale Chihuly, Robert Ebendorf, …
Read More >The Stanford Libraries have added the photos of Bay-Area based photojournalist David Bacon to their archives. Bacon, the author of In the Fields of the North/En los campos del norte, has documented …
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