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 …
Read More >We are honored to announce that Tyler Green and his book Carleton Watkins: Making the West American have won the 2018 California Book Awards‘s Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing. The medal …
Read More >As westward expansion was taking place on many fronts, the still-nascent technology of photography helped bring the West’s fabled landscapes, impossible-sounding stories, and regional discoveries to life for most Americans.
Read More >Opening on May 1, 2019 at The Noguchi Museum, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan is a major traveling exhibition tracing the consequential friendship and mutual influence between …
Read More >by Glenn Willumson, author of Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad The photographs of the transcontinental railroad first came to my attention over thirty years ago, when I was a graduate student …
Read More >Like millions of people across the world yesterday, we at UC Press were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. A UNESCO World Heritage …
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