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Megan N. Liberty

Megan N. Liberty is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of Book Art Review. Her writing on artist books, ephemera, and graphic novels also appears in Artforum.com, ArtReview, frieze, and elsewhere. Find her on twitter @meganlib.

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A Digital Archive Mines the Depth of Design

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty June 13, 2020November 5, 2020

The digital Letterform Archive has made nearly 1,500 objects accessible to browse online through over 9,000 high-resolution images.

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Mickalene Thomas Makes the White Cube a Domestic Oasis

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty May 2, 2020May 4, 2020

Thomas’s Femmes Noires reframes the gallery space, allowing viewers to alter their behavior from what’s expected in an art institution.

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Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty February 1, 2020February 4, 2020

Robyn O’Neil’s oversized, multi-panel graphite drawings resemble a graphic novel told across multiple walls and rooms. This narrative storytelling makes sense, as O’Neil’s cited influences are more literary than artistic.

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The Unseen Labor of Women in Art

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty September 28, 2019September 27, 2019

Sara VanDerBeek’s new print series, Women & Museums, interrogates how women occupy institutional spaces, particularly through the prominence of traditionally craft media like ceramics and textiles.

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Sol LeWitt’s Conceptual Book Art

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty September 21, 2019September 20, 2019

LeWitt’s bookmaking fits squarely within his commitment to order and seriality, revealing his overall practice as a total work of art.

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Recreating Artemisia Gentileschi’s Life in Graphic Form

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty September 11, 2019September 12, 2019

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi weaves together known facts of Gentileschi’s life with the politics of art patronage.

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Redefining Identity Through Artists’ Books

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty August 31, 2019August 30, 2019

The works at Center for Book Arts embrace a wide spectrum of emotions and subjectivities outside of White-centric definitions of what an “American” is.

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The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty July 27, 2019December 10, 2020

While many of Julia Kuhl’s paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.

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A Library of Photo Books Reveals the Texture of Location

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty July 22, 2019

Thinking of a Place fosters a feeling that we are seeing just a slice of what’s out there, potentially leaving us with a desire to experience the full picture of place.

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Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” Inspire an Investigation into Criticism, Failure, and Time

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty July 12, 2019July 11, 2019

Kate Zambreno’s Screen Tests show us that all good criticism is about what it means to look, slowly and closely.

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The Cult of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty June 11, 2019June 10, 2019

What happens when an artist’s mythologized life distracts from his work?

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How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty May 21, 2019May 21, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.

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