Guide
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
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Guide
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
Book Review
The artists profiled in Grand Finales refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things.
Book Review
Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds follows a painter whose devotion to a filmmaker keeps her from living her life, even as she gains access to the supposed upper echelons of the art world.
Books
The role of dreams in Latin American art, Gertrude Abercrombie’s homegrown surrealism, essays on Celia Paul, new catalogs and monographs, and more.
Book Review
In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Iskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined.
Books
Though more interested in taxonomy than analysis, the critic’s new book is most exhilarating when it maps a timeline of childrearing’s influence on artists.
Books
Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.
Art
Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.
Books
JoAnna Novak is five months pregnant when she decides to spend 18 days in the small town of Taos, New Mexico, to immerse herself in Agnes Martin’s life and work.
Books
By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman's Women Holding Things combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects.
Film
Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power wants to join the ongoing conversation about gender and film. The trouble is that it has nothing new to say.
Books
Eva Hagberg’s new book sheds light on the relationship between critic and publicist Aline Louchheim and architect Eero Saarinen.