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Adventures in the Louvre Is the Guidebook Nobody Asked For
Rife with descriptions of “seductive” works, the former “New York Times” Paris bureau chief’s book reads more like a travel guide than the impartial reporting of a journalist.
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An Artist’s Thirty-Year Affair With Copper
No Man’s Land, Pakistani artist Amin Gulgee’s first comprehensive monograph, maps his interest in exploring ritual, science, grief, and healing in a visual language all his own.
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Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World
A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.
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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.
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The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter
The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.
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The Secret Life of LA’s Small Museums
With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches.
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Science/Fiction Is a Botanical Daydream
This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster.
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An American Artist’s Vignettes of Rural Italian Life
Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.
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Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.
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A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
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Before Black, There Was Blue
In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation.
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Relational Art in the Time of Tech Oligarchy
In a convulsing world with dwindling digital spaces for connection, can Relational Art offer lessons on building community and meaning?