Katherine Boller
@kboller.bsky.social
Editorial Director for Art and Architecture at Yale University Press. Views my own.
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Congratulations to our author Daniel H. Weiss, newly appointed director of the Philadelphia Art Museum. His book Why the Museum Matters is a reflection on the values, and value, of museums and their place in our cultural future.
Why the Museum Matters
A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Congratulations to our author Daniel H. Weiss, newly appointed director of the Philadelphia Art Museum. His book Why the Museum Matters is a reflection on the values, and value, of museums and their place in our cultural future.
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Amazing opportunity to celebrate--and learn more about--the life of Louise Bourgeois on Saturday, November 15th at Hauser & Wirth.
#LouiseBourgeois #booklaunch
https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/book-launch-for-louise-bourgeois-the-insomnia-drawings-and-knife-woman/
#LouiseBourgeois #booklaunch
https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/book-launch-for-louise-bourgeois-the-insomnia-drawings-and-knife-woman/
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Amazing opportunity to celebrate--and learn more about--the life of Louise Bourgeois on Saturday, November 15th at Hauser & Wirth.
#LouiseBourgeois #booklaunch
https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/book-launch-for-louise-bourgeois-the-insomnia-drawings-and-knife-woman/
#LouiseBourgeois #booklaunch
https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/book-launch-for-louise-bourgeois-the-insomnia-drawings-and-knife-woman/
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Anderson Cooper interviews Amy Sherald on @60Minutes pairs perfectly with Katy Hessel's AMY SHERALD monograph in the Yale Press catalog.
Amy Sherald on her portraiture, her subjects' gaze, and the impact of painting Michelle Obama's portrait
Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Anderson Cooper interviews Amy Sherald on @60Minutes pairs perfectly with Katy Hessel's AMY SHERALD monograph in the Yale Press catalog.
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Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois is one of Hyperallergic's 12 art books to read this fall! 🎉
#louisebourgeois #biography #womenartists
#louisebourgeois #biography #womenartists
12 Art Books to Read This Fall
A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois is one of Hyperallergic's 12 art books to read this fall! 🎉
#louisebourgeois #biography #womenartists
#louisebourgeois #biography #womenartists
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Looking for art books to add to your fall reading list? Check out a Louise Bourgeois biography, “Native Visual Sovereignty,” “Robert Rauschenberg’s New York,” Nigerian diasporic women’s art, and more in this season’s recommendations from Hyperallergic.
12 Art Books to Read This Fall
A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.
hyperallergic.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Looking for art books to add to your fall reading list? Check out a Louise Bourgeois biography, “Native Visual Sovereignty,” “Robert Rauschenberg’s New York,” Nigerian diasporic women’s art, and more in this season’s recommendations from Hyperallergic.
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Whether you're interested in film, drawing, sculpture, or more, we have something for you! Select art titles are included in our Buy More, Save More sale, on until September 21st. Get up to 60% on your books now!
September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Whether you're interested in film, drawing, sculpture, or more, we have something for you! Select art titles are included in our Buy More, Save More sale, on until September 21st. Get up to 60% on your books now!
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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The question no one seems to be asking is whether or not the Smithsonian will comply with these outrageous demands. As a public/private agency that’s not part of the Executive Branch, its doesn’t have to. wapo.st/4mIsITW
White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The question no one seems to be asking is whether or not the Smithsonian will comply with these outrageous demands. As a public/private agency that’s not part of the Executive Branch, its doesn’t have to. wapo.st/4mIsITW
Delighted to announce that the magnificent A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes is the recipient of the 2025 Exhibition Catalogue Award from the Society of Architectural Historians! @sah1365.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Delighted to announce that the magnificent A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes is the recipient of the 2025 Exhibition Catalogue Award from the Society of Architectural Historians! @sah1365.bsky.social
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I have a chapter on dandelions in my upcoming #ArtIs book @yalebooks.bsky.social
Don’t be hatin’ on dandelions. They are important for early pollinators.
April 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I have a chapter on dandelions in my upcoming #ArtIs book @yalebooks.bsky.social
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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I missed the six month anniversary so marking the seventh month anniversary of the World Atlas of Public Art’s publication date w a reminder:
It’s currently 30% off from the publisher with the code CAA25 through May 20 at checkout: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
It’s currently 30% off from the publisher with the code CAA25 through May 20 at checkout: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
March 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I missed the six month anniversary so marking the seventh month anniversary of the World Atlas of Public Art’s publication date w a reminder:
It’s currently 30% off from the publisher with the code CAA25 through May 20 at checkout: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
It’s currently 30% off from the publisher with the code CAA25 through May 20 at checkout: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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in case anyone wants an explainer:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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L.A. without the NEA: How one little-known program saves museums millions
When the Palm Springs Art Museum was arranging “Women of Abstract Expressionism,” all the typical special exhibition concerns arose: How to tell the story of 12 largely unrecognized female artists?
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February 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
in case anyone wants an explainer:
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Happy publication day to @mattlodder.com, whose fantastic new book, Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art, is now available!
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Tattoos
The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scound...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Happy publication day to @mattlodder.com, whose fantastic new book, Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art, is now available!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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30% off at Yale University Press website using code HOL30, Nov. 25-Dec. 6, including my book, which Publisher's Weekly called "marginally more enjoyable than a visit to the dentist"
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Artemisia Gentileschi
An important reassessment of the later career and life of a beloved baroque artist Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seven...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
30% off at Yale University Press website using code HOL30, Nov. 25-Dec. 6, including my book, which Publisher's Weekly called "marginally more enjoyable than a visit to the dentist"
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Out this week is artist Amy Sherald’s beautiful retrospective catalogue, published in collaboration with SFMoMA! The exhibition opened last week in San Francisco and will then head to the Whitney and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
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Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald’s work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects Bringing together nearly...
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November 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Out this week is artist Amy Sherald’s beautiful retrospective catalogue, published in collaboration with SFMoMA! The exhibition opened last week in San Francisco and will then head to the Whitney and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
We are delighted to have the catalogue for this magnificent exhibition on our list.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 PM
We are delighted to have the catalogue for this magnificent exhibition on our list.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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We are delighted to announce that ‘The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art’ by Susan Owens, published by @yalebooks.bsky.social, is the winner of the Apollo Book of the Year award, which is supported by Wedlake Bell
November 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
We are delighted to announce that ‘The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art’ by Susan Owens, published by @yalebooks.bsky.social, is the winner of the Apollo Book of the Year award, which is supported by Wedlake Bell
Happy Publication Week to Ara Merjian's Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde, a book that has only become more timely.
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Fragments of Totality
A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twen...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Happy Publication Week to Ara Merjian's Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde, a book that has only become more timely.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Also a periodic reminder:
Always submit your book! Always push for your publisher to submit your book! Always independently submit your book!
Always submit your book! Always push for your publisher to submit your book! Always independently submit your book!
Since it’s now publicly announced (and since CAA isn’t here yet): this year’s CAA Morey Book Award Shortlist!
Spoiler: They’re all great books!
Spoiler: They’re all great books!
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Also a periodic reminder:
Always submit your book! Always push for your publisher to submit your book! Always independently submit your book!
Always submit your book! Always push for your publisher to submit your book! Always independently submit your book!
Delighted to see so many YUP authors and museum partners on the shortlist for the 2025 Morey and Barr Awards from the College Art Association! Congratulations to all.
November 19, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Delighted to see so many YUP authors and museum partners on the shortlist for the 2025 Morey and Barr Awards from the College Art Association! Congratulations to all.
Excited to see Dietrich Neumann’s book on Mies lead off @wsj.com’s Holiday Gift Books for architecture! The other titles listed (all university press books) look great too.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Holiday Gift Books: Architecture
Take a house tour from the comfort of the couch.
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November 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Excited to see Dietrich Neumann’s book on Mies lead off @wsj.com’s Holiday Gift Books for architecture! The other titles listed (all university press books) look great too.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...