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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. ...

Cover of the book under discussion
Saturday, April 13th, 2013

The Early Developmental Stage: A Dialogue on the Contemporary Chinese Art World with Author Karen Smith

Her latest book is As Seen 2011: Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Life with a Dolphin: A Memoir from Mrs. Clement Greenberg

Janice Van Horne Greenberg, author of this book reviewed in 2012, passed October 14. RIP Jenny

Monday, July 16th, 2012

In Fashionable Flower: Lee Friedlander’s Mannequins

Reflections of the clamorous streetscape invade the dummies’ glamorous domains

Excerpt from "Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel. Copyright © 2012 by Alison Bechdel. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

“I can’t help you. You’re on your own”: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir

Are Your My Mother? is the much-awaited sequel to Fun Home

Photograph of David Park at his Easel, 1958, by Imogen Cunningham. Reproduced in Helen Park Bigelow’s book reviewed in this article
Sunday, May 6th, 2012

David Park: “The Colors Took My Gaze for a Ride”

Two  biographies, one just out, of the key Bay Area Figurative painter.

Diane Arbus, Untitled (6), 1970-71 © The Estate of Diane Arbus
Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Rough Empathy: The Photographs of Diane Arbus

Aperture and other fine book purveyors can now be found at PS1’s New York Art Book Fair.

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Pharmacy or Farm: Phaidon Hedges Bets

Two contemporary art surveys experiment with format models: encyclopedia and newspaper

Anish Kapoor, Mother as Mountain, 1985. Wood, gesso and pigment 140 × 275 × 105 cm. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Friday, December 23rd, 2011

The Yorkshire Connection: Books on British Sculpture

Titles on John Skeaping, Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, Anish Kapoor and Thomas Houseago.

Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled [Bathroom Window, Broadway studio], ca. 1961. Gelatin silver print. Photo © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

All the World’s a Combine: Robert Rauschenberg’s Photographs

Review of the new book from D.A.P.

cover of the book under review
Monday, December 12th, 2011

Caravaggio: James Dean of Baroque Painters

Andrew Graham-Dixon’s Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane