My Translation of Color Charts Has Come Out

My translation of Color Charts: A History by Anne Varichon is out today from Princeton University Press. In The Art Newspaper, reviewer Jad Adams praised my translation, writing that “translator Kate Deimling deserves a special accolade for translating not only the sometimes technically challenging terms but conveying Varichon’s effervescent enthusiasm for her subject.” In this…

Christian Dior, Christian Bérard: Cheerful Melancholy

My translation of Laurence Benaïm‘s joint biography of the two Christians is out today. You probably know one of them, thanks to a multi-million-dollar corporation that bears his name. But what about the other? Christian Bérard was a talented artist who became a renowned set and costume designer. In pre-World War II Paris, he and…