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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Book Review
The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age
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
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
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
Six Art Books to Read This April
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
Mary Cassatt Was Forever an American in Paris
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
Hettie Judah Confronts the Unwritten History of Artist-Mothers
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
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels
Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.
Art
The Time Has Come for Artist-Mothers
Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.
Books
Can a Mother Devote Her Life to Art?
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
Maira Kalman Considers All That Women Hold
By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman's Women Holding Things combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects.
Film
Is There Anything Left to Say About the Male Gaze?
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
How One Woman Built a Famous Male Architect’s Legacy
Eva Hagberg’s new book sheds light on the relationship between critic and publicist Aline Louchheim and architect Eero Saarinen.