Rachel Silveri’s new book, The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris, offers a fresh look at the artists of interwar Paris, who created an “art
With her new book, Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California, Monica Steinberg takes us into the world of artists who concealed or
In 2021, the press announced a new series born from a gift awarded by the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation. This series, the Abakanowicz
A few weeks ago I spent a fortnight in Venice helping set up “Porch: An Architecture of Generosity” and installing my book The Porch: Meditations
November 9 is “Go to an Art Museum Day,” and we’re celebrating by highlighting some fantastic exhibitions currently on view at museums around the US
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 by Margareta Ingrid Christian is the
This month on the blog, we catch up with executive editor Karen Levine to hear about her career path, her work in acquiring art and
In his new book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean, Andrew Griebeler traces the history of botanical illustration in the Mediterranean
In her new book, The God Behind the Marble, Alice Goff relates a history of Germans’ attempts to transform society through art in an age
This year, the University of Chicago Press is publishing new editions of two stunning photography collections by famed American photographer W. Eugene Smith. We sat