I never imagined I would do a catalogue raisonné, but I’ve
always been interested in such books. Even in literature, I like to
get the complete writings of a writer in order to get a full
picture—to get an idea of what a writer, an artist...
Sharon Gerstel, Member (2010-11) in the School of Historical
Studies and Professor of the UCLA Department of Art History, has
won the Runciman Book Prize for the book she was working on at IAS,
Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium
(Cambridge...
Ingrid Daubechies, former Member (1999) in the School of Mathematics, shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.
Glen Bowersock, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines Pergamon
and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, an
exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the most recent
issue of The New York Review of Books...
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the
School of Historical Studies, speaks with Scott Rothkopf, Deputy
Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief
Curator, on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of
the Ellsworth Kelly...
Volume III of Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo
Bernini (Pindar Press, 2013) by Irving
Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies,
has been published. This final volume completes a collection of
Lavin's papers on Baroque...
The need for an official Institute seal was one of the first things that Abraham Flexner, founding Director of the Institute, turned his attention to even before preliminary financial and practical arrangements were in place.
Pindar Press has just published the first volume of the
collected works of Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School
of Historical Studies. Visible Spirit: the Art of Gianlorenzi
Bernini (2007), brings his far-reaching publications
together to...