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What Do Art Critics Actually Do?
Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.
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Inspired by the Story of a Women’s Sanitarium, a Book Explores Mental Health as a Feminist Issue
The personal essays in this luminous anthology, published by Which Witch LA, pair the interiors of the sanitarium's rooms with the inner lives of women.
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Photographing the Daily Roar of Life on a New York City Flight Path
In Landing Lights Park, photographer David Rothenberg captures a quiet Queens neighborhood disrupted by descending airplanes.
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Monuments Not Meant to Last
This new book, Temporary Monuments , includes the range of documentation that defines Mayer's ephemeral works: photographs, sketches and drawings, writings by Mayer, and a scholarly essay.
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How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.
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American Art Critics, from Lucy Lippard to Darby English, Open Up in a Book of Interviews
In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.
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Luminous Summer Scenes from Local American Fairs
Photographer Pamela Littky spent the summer of 2015 driving thousands of miles through 15 states to capture the American fair.
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Documenting the Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Comics
Escaping Wars and Waves culls Olivier Kugler's contributions to Harper's, Le Monde diplomatique, The New Yorker, and more.
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The View from the NY Art Book Fair Zine Tent: 8 Zines You Want to Know About
This year's zinesters brought some of the most playful, provocative, and interesting items on display, and here are some notable picks.
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In Passing for Human, Liana Finck Illustrates Her Search for Selfhood
The New Yorker cartoonist calls her new graphic memoir "a neurological coming-of-age story."
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Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
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How a Graphic Novel About 1930s Germany Feels Poignant and Prescient
Jason Lutes's epic graphic novel series Berlin, which began in 1996, comes to a close this year. Little did he know how relevant his books would be.