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Envisioning Kashmir’s Future Through Paint and Verse
Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock responded to Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain’s watercolors of his homeland, crafting an intimate portrait of the occupied region’s past and future.
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The Legends, Luxuries, and Dreams of Imperial Mughal Ateliers
In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.
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8 Art Books to Read This March
Meret Oppenheim’s poetry, Pao Houa Her’s first monograph, the journals of Charles Burchfield, subway art around New York City, and more.
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New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works
Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective.
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Three Modernist Women Who Reclaimed the Nude
Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking
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Seeing Photography as an African Art Form
Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.
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Women and Spiritualism in Art
In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.
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Harry Smith’s Hidden Roadmap to the Heavens
He needed money to live, so that he could search New York City for paper airplanes.
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The Spellbinding Totality of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy’s Love
A new monograph hones in on the artist-couple’s collaboration.
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The Glittery History of Drag in New York City
Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history.
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When Book Covers Outshine Their Pages
Judging a Book by its Cover at Manhattan's Grolier Club pays homage to the highly specialized art form.
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The Writer Who Made Films to “Get Out of the House”
A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds.