Art and Architecture - Columbia University Press Blog

October 7, 2010

Leonard Cassuto as Art Curator

Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crimes Stories, is curating an exhibit entitled The Art of Captivity. Idiom interviewed Cassuto about the exhibit, which includes works that explore...

September 27, 2010

Jerelle Kraus on the New York Times Op-Ed at 40

Yesterday’s New York Times celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the op-ed section. Part of the commemoration is a video dedicated to the influential illustrations of the op-ed section. The video includes an interview with Jerelle Kraus, the former art director...

August 18, 2010

Hiroshima After Iraq — Rosalyn Deutsche on Political Art

In Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War, Rosalyn Deutsche begins by citing a 2008 article in October that polled a group of “art world intellectuals” about artistic critiques of about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq....

June 7, 2010

Arthur Danto on sitting with Marina Abramovic

Arthur Danto, author of The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Narration and Knowledge, Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life and many other titles, recently wrote a piece for The Stone, the New York Times new philosophy blog,...

January 29, 2010

Jerelle Kraus interview

Jerelle Kraus, author of All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page, recently appeared on the legendary local cable show hosted by Harold Channer. Below is the full interview and...

October 9, 2009

Interview with Alex Danchev, author of Art and War and Terror

The following is an interview with Alex Danchev, author of On Art and War and Terror. (The book is currently on sale during our special offer on politics, political theory, and political science theory titles.) Question: Art and war and...

March 10, 2009

Alternet on All the Art That's Fit to Print

Alternet posted a piece by Steve Brown on the various illustrations for the Op-Ed page that have been killed by the New York Times over the years. In fact, rejecting illustrations, such as David Levine’s depiction of Kissinger, has cost...

January 20, 2009

Inauguration 2009

HELLO GOODBYE Both images are from All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page by Jerelle Kraus. Watch a video for the book for more images from the book and...

November 5, 2008

Jules Feiffer image from All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page by Jerelle Kraus. This image originally ran in the New York Times in 2007 and while the caption...

October 23, 2008

Op-Ed Art from the New York Times

Jerelle Kraus, the former art director at the New York Times, and author of the just published All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some that Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page, reveals the true story of...

May 22, 2008

Wellek Library Lectures

Even as academics and scholars start to get ready for their summer break, there is still much anticipation and excitement about the Wellek Library Lectures series, which is going on this week. Held annually since 1981 at the Critical Theory...

April 18, 2008

Fear of Freedom by Carlo Levi: An Event at the Italian Academy

While in exile during the Second World War, Carlo Levi, the famous painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family wrote the canonical essay “Of Fear and Freedom,” which was later published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux and in...

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

Category: Art and Architecture