Category: Art and Architecture

September 26, 2017

Low-Brow Culture and the Art of Deception in Ming China

If your first association with Ming China is delicate blue-and-white vases or the dreamy landscape paintings of Shen Zhou and others, The Book of Swindles will give you a very different idea of the period. This book reveals the seedy,...

September 16, 2017

Why Only Art Can Save Us, Part II

Read an interview with Santiago Zabala, author of WHY ONLY ART CAN SAVE US: AESTHETICS AND THE ABSENCES OF EMERGENCY.

September 15, 2017

Why Only Art Can Save Us, Part I

Read an interview with Santiago Zabala, author of WHY ONLY ART CAN SAVE US: AESTHETICS AND THE ABSENCES OF EMERGENCY.

November 18, 2016

Richard Plunz on Housing in New York City

Richard Plunz, author of “A History of Housing in New York City,” discusses his book in an interview with Brian Lehrer.

October 20, 2016

Tom Toles's Drawings from "The Madhouse Effect"

View drawings by Tom Toles that satirize the misguided efforts of climate change denialists.

October 19, 2016

Interview with Richard Plunz, author of "A History of Housing in New York City"

“Beyond doubt the large question facing New York housing production today has to do with a market that can not provide for the half of our households that are low income…. One can hope that growing public pressure bottom-up can merge with a top-down realization that we need to innovate in order to grow and prosper as a competitive and cosmopolitan global urban entity.” — Richard Plunz

September 29, 2016

Eric Kandel on Mark Rothko

Read an excerpt from Eric Kandel’s “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures”

September 28, 2016

This is Your Brain on Jackson Pollock — Eric Kandel on Art

The following are highlights from a recent “Science Friday” interview with Eric Kandel, author of “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science”

June 8, 2016

Columbia University Press wins big at the New York Book Show

The winners for the New York Book Show (an annual design competition hosted by the Book Industry Guild of New York) were announced last week. We’re proud to share that Columbia University Press won in eight categories this year!

February 26, 2016

Images from "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

See works by graphic memoirists included in Tahneer Oksman’s new book.

January 20, 2016

Energy's Image

Read an excerpt from “Energy’s Image,” an excerpt from the chapter on the art of J.M.W. Turner in CHAOS IMAGINED: LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, by Martin Meisel.

December 21, 2015

Group Efforts, a New Book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

View images from “Group Efforts,” a new book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.