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Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell's art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
Yale University Press
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Part Memoir and Part History, How Photography Became Contemporary Art Chronicles an Artistic Revolution
Blake Gopnik will join author Andy Grundberg to discuss his new book from Yale University Press in a virtual launch celebration hosted by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery on April 1.
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A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.
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How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
A new book examines the collective Atelier 17, whose members redefined beliefs about gender identity and artistic achievement in the 1940s and ’50s.
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Why Matisse Thought “A Picture Should Always Be Decorative”
For Matisse, decoration was never a secondary matter.
Books
A Look at the Auteur of Animation, Hayao Miyazaki
Susan Napier's Miyazaki World eloquently defines Hayao Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms.
Art
Jasper Johns' Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
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The Histories of Ten Colors Through Multiple Lenses
Rather than merely tracing a visual history of determined hues, On Color considers them across multiple disciplines, including film and literature.
Art
Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.
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Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers
Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.
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Reader’s Diary: ‘Eva Hesse: Diaries’
An artist’s fame may continue, or even grow, as the actual works on which it is nominally based are lost from sight.
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’
We think the canon of American art of the 1940s and ‘50s is set in stone, but we’ve got a lot of looking still to do.