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about 3 months ago (02/11/2024)
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read...
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about 3 months ago (02/11/2024)
‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Bread and soup for prison lunch at Camp AW261/4, Uptar...
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about 3 months ago (02/09/2024)
Graphic memoir charts an ominous journey from Fidel Castro’s Cuba to Donald Trump’s America Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review Graphic memoir charts an ominous journey from Fidel Castro’s Cuba to Donald Trump’s America Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, labelled a “worm” for fleeing Cold War Cuba in 1980, tells story of his progress from impoverished boyhood to creating alarming covers for Time magazine David D'Arcy 9 February 2024 Share The front cover of Worm © 2023 Edel Rodriguez On the cover of the graphic memoir Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey , which follows the artist and illustrator Edel Rodriguez from 1970s Cuba to the US, the author draws himself as a boy wearing the red scarf of the José Martí Pioneer Organization and a beret with a star high on his head—the attribute of no less than Ernesto “Che” Guevara...
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about 3 months ago (02/08/2024)
The Writer Who Made Films to “Get Out of the House” Skip to content Still from Le Navire Night (1978), directed by Marguerite Duras (all images courtesy Another Gaze Editions) “I make films to fill my time,” Marguerite Duras wrote in 1975...
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about 3 months ago (02/08/2024)
When Book Covers Outshine Their Pages Skip to content Unknown artists, The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1643), binding created by unknown needlewomen (all images courtesy Grolier Club unless otherwise noted) Unknown artists, The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1643), binding created by unknown needlewomen (all images courtesy Grolier Club unless otherwise noted) Unknown artists, The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1643), binding created by unknown needlewomen (all images courtesy Grolier Club unless otherwise noted) The Grolier Club — “America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts” — is situated on the busy Upper East Side intersection of 60th Street and Park Avenue, a few blocks from the Plaza Hotel...
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about 3 months ago (02/08/2024)
British artist David Hockney famously quipped, “Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” Contemporary Art Underground, a forthcoming book from Monacelli posits that these two facets of visual culture are a match made to move us indeed...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
8 Art Books to Read This February Skip to content Image from Søren Solkær's Black Sun series in Starling (2023) (image courtesy Edition Circle) This month, we’re turning to books that spark questions and crack open new possibilities, with digital culture on our minds as always, and photography looming large as a tool for both oppression and self-determination...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
An expert's guide to Frans Hals: five must-read books on the Dutch Old Master Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Book Club blog An expert's guide to Frans Hals: five must-read books on the Dutch Old Master All you ever wanted to know about Hals, from an 18th-century biography to a 1994 novel of the artist's “lost diaries”—selected by the Rijksmuseum curator Friso Lammertse José da Silva 6 February 2024 Share After Frans Hals, Portrait of Frans Hals (around 1650) • Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artists The Dutch Old Master Frans Hals is renowned for capturing the expressions of his sitters, whether the cheeky sideways glance of a lute player or a smirking “cavalier”...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book Keith Miller 6 February 2024 Share Detail of Hungry Ghosts Scroll (late 12th century) by an unknown artist Kyoto National Museum The last book I reviewed with this title was by the historian Simon Schama...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
February Book Bag: from to a graphic novel of Ruth Asawa’s life to a tome of Glenn Brown’s works Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books blog February Book Bag: from to a graphic novel of Ruth Asawa’s life to a tome of Glenn Brown’s works Our round-up of the latest art publications Gareth Harris 6 February 2024 Share Glenn Brown , contributors include Hans Werner Holzwarth, Taschen, 474pp, £750 (hb) This new monograph gives an in-depth overview of the work of the UK artist Glenn Brown, known for his reproductions of other artists’ works—including those byOld Masters, the greats of Modern art and science-fiction illustrators—which he transforms by radically reconfiguring their colour, orientation and size...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Diarmuid Hester Distills Queer Longing Skip to content James Baldwin in Saint-Paul-De-Vence (1985), in Diarmuid Hester, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories (2024) (photo by Ulf Anderson; all images courtesy Pegasus Press) It’s notable that only at the end of his book Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories does Diarmuid Hester acknowledge that the text and his journey to write it have been a pilgrimage all along...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
New book sees ‘outsider artists’ as part of a creative spectrum rather than a world apart Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review New book sees ‘outsider artists’ as part of a creative spectrum rather than a world apart The publication also explores how artists on the periphery might interact with the art market Claudia Barbieri Childs 6 February 2024 Share Portuguese-born, UK-based artist Manuel Bonifacio’s Motorbike and Man (2012) Courtesy the Outside In Collection The book Outside In: Exploring the margins of art presents works by a group of mostly contemporary “outsider” artists and argues a case for critiquing them on merit—and the outsider art category in general—within the mainstream of the art canon...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Beatles Memorabilia on Sale at SF’s Antiquarian Book Fair 2024 | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer upper waypoint The Do List This Year’s Antiquarian Book Fair Is a Little More Rock ‘N’ Roll Than Usual Rae Alexandra Feb 6 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email The Beatles with a copy of ‘Sgt...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Why Anthony van Dyck was summoned to paint a recently deceased noblewoman Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Book Club feature Why Anthony van Dyck was summoned to paint a recently deceased noblewoman This extract from a new book about works in the Dulwich Picture Gallery by Helen Hillyard and Jennifer Scott reveals the story behind the artist's 1663 portrait of Lady Digby Helen Hillyard and Jennifer Scott...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Missing Mona Lisa: the story behind the 1911 theft of Leonardo’s masterpiece Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books feature Missing Mona Lisa: the story behind the 1911 theft of Leonardo’s masterpiece The author of a new book tells us why it was stolen and how Picasso got embroiled in the scandal Gareth Harris 6 February 2024 Share A museum worker called Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa in August 1911...
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about 3 months ago (02/01/2024)
Fore-Edge Book Painter Carries On Critically Endangered Craft Home / Art / Painting Fore-Edge Book Painter Carries On Critically Endangered Craft By Margherita Cole on February 1, 2024 This post may contain affiliate links...
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about 3 months ago (01/31/2024)
Stunning Photos Of The River Thames | Londonist Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book By M@ M@ Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book Richmond Bridge A new photography book shows the bridges and riverbanks of the Thames in their full glory...
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about 4 months ago (12/18/2023)
Dr Terror deals the Death card: how tarot was turned into an occult obsession | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Just in time for Christmas … tarot cards by Pamela Colman Smith...
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about 4 months ago (12/18/2023)
A new book explores the life of a pioneering Irish stained-glass artist through his glorious creations Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review A new book explores the life of a pioneering Irish stained-glass artist through his glorious creations Michael Healy’s reclusiveness belied his trailblazing role in Ireland's most prestigious studio of its kind Maev Kennedy 18 December 2023 Share Detail of The Potter (1923), at the Church of the Most Holy Rosary in Bridge a Crinn, County Louth, Ireland Photo: Jozef Vrtiel The saints and angels created in the early 20th century by the Irish stained-glass artist Michael Healy look down in a blaze of heavenly light from a jewelled world...
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about 5 months ago (12/17/2023)
The big picture: Oli Kellett’s crossroads and possibilities | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Stockton St, San Francisco, 2017...
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about 5 months ago (12/13/2023)
Hyperallergic’s Art Book Gift Guide Skip to content We’re not sure what we like more — giving or getting books — but we do know they make perfect presents...
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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content ‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures ‘He looked very proud’ … Matthew in His Car, 2019 The Band, 2017 When Japanese photographer Fumi Nagasaka was invited by her friend Tanya to visit her home town of Dora, Alabama, it proved to be a moment of creative inspiration...
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about 5 months ago (12/11/2023)
An acerbic but highly readable view of the British art world Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review An acerbic but highly readable view of the British art world The critic and former curator Julian Spalding holds forth on his dislike of conceptual art and his love for Beryl Cook Georgina Adam 11 December 2023 Share True to form, Spalding makes no secret of his vehement dislike of conceptual art...
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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
From ferns to meteorites: new book explores the beautiful mysteries of nature printing Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review From ferns to meteorites: new book explores the beautiful mysteries of nature printing A rare collection of images created by the impressions of natural objects Tabitha Barber 8 December 2023 Share Image by Alois Auer Von Welsbach, a pioneer of nature printing who likened his discovery to the invention of writing and the Gutenberg press Vienna, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1854...
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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
Artblog | Books for holiday giving, Part 1 – Irma Boom, Indigenous Present and Strikethrough Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Books for holiday giving, Part 1 – Irma Boom, Indigenous Present and Strikethrough By Andrea Kirsh December 8, 2023 In her holiday book roundup, Andrea Kirsh focuses on three books that show an incredible breadth of art book publishing this year....
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about 5 months ago (12/07/2023)
Miners' strikes, evil algorithms and everything else that should be on your reading list for the New Year and beyond....
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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)
Start your year off right with a colonial revenge story, a Scottish vampire and a time-travelling polar explorer....
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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels Skip to content Cover of One Woman Show by Christine Coulson (courtesy Avid Reader Press) The writer Christine Coulson spent much of her 25-year tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art composing wall labels for the museum’s galleries...
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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)
10 Art Books to Add to Your Shelf This December Skip to content Kareem Khubchandani's Decolonize Drag , Sonya Clark's newest catalogue, and more books we're reading this December (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/ Hyperallergic ) If you’re shamefully counting the titles you didn’t get around to reading this year, know that you are not alone...