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Coreen Simpson’s Timeless Ode to Black Beauty
Her photography captures both celebrities and everyday people with such intimacy that they might call to mind your neighbors and friends.
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The Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top
Myles Connor is one of the very few people alive to have come out ahead after lifting an artwork from the wall of a museum, as Anthony M. Amore explores in his new book.
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Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art
Writing one of the first comprehensive biographies of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.
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Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
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Barkley L. Hendricks’s Studio Was a Wonderland of Inspiration
A photo book documenting the late artist’s colorful, cluttered studio shows an amalgamation of decades’ worth of inspiration.
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Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah
Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to ’41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life.
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An Ode to Lois Dodd
A new monograph on the nonagenarian American painter is a well of bliss.
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Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art
The photographer, who has been the subject of controversy at times in her career, discusses her approach to life in her new book, Art Work.
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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.
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A Warts-and-All Biography of the Man Behind the Barnes Collection
The Maverick’s Museum examines Albert C. Barnes’s complex legacy, from his support for the Harlem Renaissance to his incongruent interactions with Black art and culture.
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The Paradoxical Promise of Postwar Liberation
Art history has struggled to address a contradictory artistic output that engaged with Japan’s modernization and occupation, a new book argues.
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How the Wound Man Healed Medieval Europe
In a new book, art historian Jack Hartnell reconsiders the gruesome image as “one of the period’s most sophisticated repositories of medical hope.”