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In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with Art History Editor Archna Patel to discuss her vision for our Art list, how she’s supporting and responding to calls for social justice within the field, and how her love for the Lakers has helped her cope during the pandemic.

On August 13, 2020, the United States Postal Service released postage stamps showcasing ten sculptures of Ruth Asawa. Several of these sculptures are also included in the second edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air. This new edition features an expanded collection of essa

Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern PhotographyEdited by John RohrbachClosing out our National Photography Month spotlights, UC Press is excited to preview our forthcoming release Acting Out, the first ever in-depth examination of the cabinet card phenomena. Co-published in associ

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, UC Press is excited to provide a virtual look into the forthcoming second edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air by Timothy Anglin Burgard and Daniell Cornell.Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Julia White, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)'s Senior Curator for Asian Art, has organized another exhibition that we are proud to be co-publishing the exhibition catalogue for: Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting. Opening on October 2, 2019, Hinges follows

“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 ChronicleChiura Obata: An American Modern exhibition catalogue.Chiura Obata (1885–1

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 exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, whom we are proud to have co-published the ge