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A New Book Culls the Favorite Museum Pieces of World-Famous Artists
For It Speaks to Me, Jori Finkel asked 50 artists, from Marina Abramović to David Hockney, “to discuss a museum piece that intrigues or inspires them from their hometown.”
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What Happened When Fred Wilson Dug Beneath a Museum's Floorboards
The book Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson published in 1994 has particular insights that go beyond institutional critique and into our individual complicities that are crucial to consider now.
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Living in a Renaissance Palace, an Art Historian Uncovers an Amazing Past
When an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai, Allison Levy seized on it.
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Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist?
Out of seemingly meager materials, Herriman created a complete world, a place where nothing ever changes and where his characters never develop, yet his sense of humor is almost infallible.
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A Black-and-White World Beneath the Ocean
"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
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David Bezmozgis's Strangers in a Strange Land
Nostalgia and despair form the emotional undercurrent of these stories about the afterlife of an immigrant childhood.
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Lyn Hejinian Imagines Life on Mars
The poet challenges assumptions about how thinking is a form of language.
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Where the Billionaire Buyers Are
In BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, Michael Shnayerson paints a vivid portrait of the dizzying ascent of the contemporary art market and the powerful succession of dealers responsible for its rise.
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The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism
Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
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Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" Inspire an Investigation into Criticism, Failure, and Time
Kate Zambreno's Screen Tests show us that all good criticism is about what it means to look, slowly and closely.
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A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape
Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chantal Akerman's Painful Final Memoir
Almost four years after her death, My Mother Laughs, the last book by the pioneering director, has been translated into English.