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Maurice Sendak’s Life Among the Wild Things
Sendak’s illustrations carry weight all on their own for children and adults alike, and this book beautifully captures his prolific career.
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Is Making Art a Way of Telling People to Go Away Forever?
In her novel Tell Me I’m an Artist, Chelsea Martin questions whether art offers a refuge from the world.
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Photographer Captures His Journey With Terminal Cancer
Stephen L. Starkman’s moving book about his encounter with mortality leaves a place for perseverance and hope.
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The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Romantics
Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond highlights a group of artists who found acclaim and patronage only to fall back into obscurity.
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A New Sourcebook of Indian Art
20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary surveys the many distinct aspects of art in South Asia.
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In Praise of Complicated Friendships
Within this rich survey of 1990s ephemera is an homage to the modes of communication that forged community and identity prior to the internet.
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Why Do Herbariums Still Fascinate Us?
Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens offers a collection of collections, a satisfying glimpse into the age-old practice.
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The Extraordinary Life of Barbara Chase-Riboud
The pathbreaking artist recounts milestones in her life through letters she wrote to her mother.
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Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party
Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.
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Central Park Architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s Tree Politics
Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees.
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William Eggleston’s Long Road to Recognition
A new book presents nearly 100 previously unseen photos from the artist’s influential, once-controversial body of work.
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Sex Tourism With Statues
Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps is a cringe-worthy display of “spiritual colonialism.”