At the age of 44, Hokusai took on an amazing challenge: a giant portrait of the founder of Zen Buddhism.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Portrait as a Young Provocateur
Kusama: The Graphic Novel is an ode to the power of art, which, on multiple occasions, saved her.
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A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History
Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed.
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Yayoi Kusama Gets Her First Graphic Novel Biography
In this excerpt of Kusama: The Graphic Novel, illustrator Elisa Macellari time travels to Kusama’s life in 1960s New York City, when the artist became “the high priestess of love and pacifism.”
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The Cult of Jean-Michel Basquiat
What happens when an artist’s mythologized life distracts from his work?
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Dismantling the Narrative of Soviet Socialist Realism Versus American Abstract Expressionism
A new book injects nuance into reductive historical interpretations of how the Cold War affected global art in the second half of the 20th century.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models Let You Build the Miniature Guggenheim of Your Dreams
With Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models by Marc Hagan-Guirey, you can build tiny models of Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and Taliesin West.
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Guess the Famous Artists in This Trivia Game of Colorful Clues
“Guess the Artist: The Art Quiz Game” is a new trivia challenge that asks players to identify an artist represented by three objects.
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An Out-of-Focus Look at Post-Photography
Tacking “post” onto a word is one of those art world tricks that’s routinely wielded to great rhetorical effect, but has little denotative meaning. In much the same way, Robert Shore’s book featuring the term, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, jumps off the shelves with its punchy title but fails to provide much substance.