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Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Edward Hopper, Night Window, 1928. Oil on canvas, 29 x 34 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of John Hay Whitney
Irish-honed literary skills placed at service of cosmopolitan visual culture ...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
A detail of a painting by Carol Rhodes reproduced in the book under review. (Construction Site, 2003)
New monograph published by Skira Editore ...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
A look at eight years of writing by Bob Nickas. ...

Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year 1, published by bruno, 2015.
Friday, September 9th, 2016

Art Sales 2.0 IRL: A Book of Rob Pruitt’s eBay Flea Market

Is he a trickster, or a Warholian innovator? What’s the difference?

Cover of Serious Bidness: The Letters of Richard Bellamy, 2016, by Richard Bellamy. Edited by Miles Bellamy.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Serious Eye: Two New Books About Richard Bellamy

Two new books document the life and letters of the influential dealer.

Saturday, June 4th, 2016

Ad Absurdum: A Collection of Poems by Marcel Broodthaers

I new translation collects two poems and a suite of appropriated images in one volume.

Monday, April 11th, 2016

Perceptual Inventory: A New Anthology by Barry Schwabsky

The poet-critic’s recent writing for The Nation is collected by Verso.

Jim DIne
Friday, April 8th, 2016

Complicated Ventures: Jim Dine’s Poems

“a seamless controlling ear gives them weight and authenticity”

Thursday, March 31st, 2016

“No doubt she’s in control”: A New Niki de Saint Phalle Monograph

An oft-overlooked and misunderstood painter and sculptor gets a close look by the Guggenheim Bilbao

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

In the Beginning was the Image: Julian Bell and Archie Rand Paint the Bible

“What’s the right visual style for presenting Christian or Jewish texts? “

cover of "Rembrandt" by Tancred Borenius, Phaidon Classics, 2015
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

The Classics: “New” from Phaidon, Early Titles on the Old Masters

In conversation with Diane Fortenberry, Senior Editor at Phaidon Press

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

A Holy Grail: Edmund de Waal’s Pilgrimage in Porcelain

The White Road: Journey into an Obsession is his new book

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

A Broader View of Sculpture: Two Books by Artists on the Perception of their Medium

The Elements of Sculpture by Herbert George and The Cardiff Tapes by Garth Evans