Books
Though the internet may have upended the physical dimension of recorded knowledge, The Borough is My Library zines, created by library workers in the New York City area, harness that accessibility and create a dialogue around the future of such brick-and-mortar institutions amid the swell of digital
Books
LOS ANGELES — This year's Los Angeles Art Book Fair was by all accounts a success. The four-day event certainly shattered the previous year's attendance record, 24,450 visitors, and everyone I spoke to was excited by the quality and diversity of exhibitions, booths, and programming.
Books
Andy Mister’s recent book 'Liner Notes' captures the intimate texture of a consciousness that interacts with both the boring mundanity of an everyday work routine and the drug culture that, to some, is associated with an artist’s life.
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Art history is very much a haunted field, with the specters of works obliterated, lost, hidden, or just vanished floating around it. Our visual culture is defined as much by destruction as it is by creation.
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There are surprisingly few poetry collections built around the experience of loss. One of them, published just last year, is Time of Grief: Mourning Poems, selected by poet and New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang.
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In 1533, hundreds of dragons were reported to darken the skies over Bohemia, following a 1506 sighting of a blinding bright comet slicing over the sky. Were these foreboding occurrences signs of the apocalypse, or just a lot of Renaissance hearsay?
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In photographer Elinor Carucci's new monograph Mother, she chronicles nine years of motherhood, from the tentative expectancy of pregnancy to the whir of raising children in the bustle of New York City.
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As the American critic Jed Perl points out in his new book, Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture (Eakins Press Foundation, 2013), a collection of essays about subjects in the fields of Renaissance, modern and contemporary art, today the forces of “art as money” have vanquished those of
Opinion
When ebooks and ereaders caught on, they brought about the indomitable rise of a once-languishing genre: romance novels. But they're not alone; other titles in other genres are benefitting from the anonymity of ereader packaging. One book that's seen a big boost? Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
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The Italian government has unveiled a master plan for attracting foreign investment, and for some reason, it includes a tax rebate for people who buy books!
Books
2013 was a great year for art-related books from publishers of all stripes …