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Book review – The Hare with Amber Eyes
When a well-known curator and artist inherits a collection of 150 netsuke–button-sized Japanese carvings in ivory or wood–he starts to think about how it came into his hands. Netsuke are button-sized...
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The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Julie M. Johnson. The Memory Factory; The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6 It’s remarkable that recent scholarship can...
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Kehinde Wiley – A new book worthy of the paintings
by Mireille Guy Kehinde Wiley’s portraits of men of color, portrayed as kings, knights, or saints out of Western history paintings, juxtapose issues of race and gender with ideas of power, and ask...
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Photo post sandwich – Two books and a movie reviewed
Photo Book – Reframing Photography Reframing Photography, the 560-page encyclopedic book on the subject includes everything about photography and then some. The book is for students, teachers and those...
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Books by Oliver Herring and Brian O’Doherty
Oliver Herring, TASK Oliver Herring is generous through and through. Generous in his art and generous with this book. It is a history of the series of events he organized in a format called TASK at...
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Books for Labor Day – Labor of Art, Commerce by Artists, and Tax Laws...
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (Sternberg Press, Berlin: 2011) ISBN 978-1-934105-31-3 The eleven articles in this collection were previously published by the...
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More book reviews – Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr’s new biography of David...
By turns energizing and sad, Cynthia Carr’s book, “Fire in the Belly: The life and times of David Wojnarowicz” mirrors the exhilarating times and tetchy personality of its subject, David Wojnarowicz....
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Rafael Ferrer in Lancaster
Measuring an artist’s life–Rafael Ferrer Rafael Ferrer was Philadelphia-based for many years, teaching at University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania and creating what he created. The traces...
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Book review – Joe’s Junk Yard, Lisa Kereszi’s homage to a family’s business...
Joe’s Junk Yard, Lisa Kereszi’s photo-chronicle of her family’s junkyard in the South Philly suburbs, begins with Lisa’s two essays, “Scrap with Joe” and “Down the Yard,” telling the history of the...
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Books for Holiday Gifts, 2012, part I:
Micah Lidberg, Rise and Fall (Nobrow Press: London) ISBN 978-1-907704-30-7 This surprising and seductive publication tells the story of the prehistory of the natural world, from the rise and fall of...
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Holiday Books 2012 Part 2
Makoto Azuma and Shunsuke Shiinoki Encyclopedia of Flowers (Lars Muller Publishers, Zurich: 2012) ISBN 978-3-03778=313-9 This extraordinary volume will certainly appeal to connoisseurs of flowers, but...
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Catalog Reviews – Alina Szapocznikow, Made in L.A., Now Dig This!
Elena Filipovic, Joanna Mytkowska, et al. Alina Szapocznikow; Sculpture undone (Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mercatorfonds, Brussels: 2011) ISBN 978-0-87070-824-4 This catalog accompanies the...
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Tom Uttech and James Prosek – Monumentalizing the magic and beauty of nature
Tom Uttech’s works are a kind of mystical realism. The woods, animals, birds, rocks and clouds in his oil paintings (recently closed at Swarthmore College’s List Gallery) look like the real thing,...
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Spot Color and Books Not for Kindle at Nobrow Press, London – A Studio Visit
I learned of Nobrow Press when I saw one of their ‘books’ in the shop at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. I use quotes because the publication in question, Rise and Fall, by the American Artist,...
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Memories of buildings at NYU’s 80 WSE Gallery and Orhan Pamuk’s book The...
Four Houses, Some Buildings and Other Spaces, an exhibition curated by Berta Sichel at NYU’s 80 WSE Gallery through March 16 brings together ten artists (or artists-collaborations) around the ideals...
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First-rate new book on Paul Klee – a review
Christine Hopfengart and Michael Baumgartner Paul Klee; Life and Work (Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern:2012) ISBN 978-2-7757-3007-5 Paul Klee exhibited with the Blue Rider, taught for years at the Bauhaus in...
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Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925, a review of the catalog for the MoMa exhibit
—-Maeve Coudrelle told us about MoMa’s recent Inventing Abstraction exhibit. Here, Andrea presents the catalog for the much written-about and deconstructed show.–The artblog editors ——————————– Leah...
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Sleuthing your way through the art world – Reba White Williams’ mystery novel...
—Michael reviews the debut mystery novel of New York art world insider, Reba White Williams, and asks an interesting question.–the artblog editors——————————-What about a series of art world mystery...
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Letter from Berlin – Forgeries, pheromones and clones, ten questions for...
Jonathon Keats has brought the cerebral into the art marketplace. Nearly 15 years ago he sat in a gallery for 24 hours looking at a nude model and selling his thoughts to art collectors. A few years...
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Travel Guides to Contemporary Art – From art world favorites to private...
If you haven’t yet planned a summer trip, want to get an early start for next year, or are simply an armchair traveler, several guides focused on contemporary art may prove useful. They are also...
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