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A Fascinating Case of Forgery

Feb 13 2025
The first in-depth look at the history and legacies of forgeries in Chinese art.
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Q&A with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales, editors of “A Handbook of Latinx Art”

Feb 12 2025
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales discuss their book “A Handbook of Latinx Art," a curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
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Q&A with Ruth E. Iskin, author of "Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York"

Feb 08 2025
Author Ruth E. Iskin discusses her new book "Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York," how she became interested in the iconic artist, and what remains timely about Cassatt's work.
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How did Medieval People Feel about Notre-Dame?

Dec 20 2024
The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe.
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Native land claims and culture are inseparable

Oct 18 2024
I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Offers Free Content for SAH Virtual 2024

Sep 18 2024
JSAH has removed the paywall from its current September 2024 issue in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians 2024 Virtual conference.
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Making the Most of Your Art Program

Jul 02 2024
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o
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Will the Return to Work Mean a Return to the Open Office?

May 10 2024
The first Herman Miller Action Office II installation, at JFN Associates, Chicago, 1969 (photo: Herman Miller)The rise of the knowledge economy was one of the key developments of the 20th century. Buildings for white-collar work have transformed the heart of every major city—and their role conti
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Celebrating Southwestern US Architectural History

Apr 17 2024
The 77th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians is being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 17-21, 2024. In light of the conference's location, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles and reviews from the Journal of the Society of Architectu
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Q&A with Alice Tseng, Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Apr 03 2024
Alice Y. Tseng, JSAH Editor, 2024-25Alice Y. Tseng assumed the Editor-in-Chief position of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) in January 2024, after serving as the Associate Editor for the journal for the past two years and following the completion of David Karmon's ed
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