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The Stories of Art History's Detectives
The provenance researcher must be a detective, figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are often unwilling to disclose.
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The Black Comic Book Festival Is an Act of Resistance
At the annual Schomburg Center event, I didn't have to go searching for books made by and for me — because they were all around me.
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The World Is Finally Ready for Mina Loy
A new exhibition and forthcoming book honor the overlooked 20th-century female artist.
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An Artist's Memories of a Haunting Lake
Ode to the Lake Sacalaia is an investigation into the retracing of memory and mythology, as captured through photography.
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10 Brutalist Architects You Probably Never Heard Of
Owen Hopkins’s The Brutalists is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of blocky concrete and utopian ideals.
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14 Art Books and Catalogues We're Reading This Month
Anthologies and catalogues on feminist art in Latin America, Native mound building, Armenian photography, and more are on our reading list.
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How Did Early Modern European Craftspeople Pass On Their Knowledge?
A new book about object making critically examines a written history of working with materials.
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A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art
In All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley revisits the many ways that art meets life, and life art, and how death is often the bridge between them.
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Maya Deren in Vivid Focus
Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera depicts how the artist’s life and ideas cemented her place as a champion and influencer of culture.
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Modernism in Big Sky Country
Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art details the work and careers of six post-World War II artists who called Montana home.
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Film as a Terrain of Feminist Struggle
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image reminds us that feminist visions are abundant, and feminist critique is generative.
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Beneath the Surface of Art’s Visual Symbolism
Matthew Wilson’s new book, The Hidden Language of Symbols, chronicles the buried visual cues of power, faith, uncertainty, and hope.