Last weekend marked the opening of a major retrospective of John Waters’ visual art at the Baltimore Art Museum. With his reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, performance, and …
Read More >Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! We’ve prepared a selection of recently published titles that showcase the histories, cultures, contributions, and unique experiences of Hispanic and Latino Americans. Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth, and happy reading! Beyond the …
Read More >Described as a “fascinating and indispensable book” in a significant and extensive review by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, award-winning critic and historian Tyler Green will discuss his debut book, Carleton Watkins: Making the …
Read More >Selected this week by the New York Times as a not-to-miss show this Fall, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s (BAMPFA) Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static exhibition is noteworthy for …
Read More >“For decades, the feminist artist was pushed to the sidelines. Relevant once again, she can no longer be ignored.”—The New York Times, February 2018 Gail Levin’s critically-acclaimed biography of Judy Chicago gives us an …
Read More >Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism e-ISSN: 2578-8531 Click here to subscribe or renew your subscription. University of California Press is pleased to announce that in 2019, it will …
Read More >This Labor Day, we remember the history of the U.S. labor movement, the contributions and achievements of American workers, and the struggles that laborers continue to face today regarding worker’s rights. Below …
Read More >By Lynda Klich, author of The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico I still remember the feeling I had when in 1997, in Mexico City researching for the first …
Read More >To commemorate the fortieth anniversary (1978–2018) of the African American Museum Association (AAMA), known today as the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), The Public Historian has published a special issue on …
Read More >An extraordinary volume of visual culture, Chinese Movie Magazines: From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao, 1921–1951 gloriously showcases an exotic, eclectic, and rare array of covers from more than five hundred movie publications from a …
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