From China to modern-day Palestine, from Renaissance Europe to Reagan’s America of the 1980s, Duke’s new faculty...
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Constantin Pétridis, The language of beauty in African art, Art Institute of Chicago, 368pp, 315 colors +...
When the pandemic arrived, the art galleries closed, but the books were opened. Sales of physical books...
Like most readers, I happily spend a lot of time immersed in words. But sometimes even a...
Meghan Collins Sullivan / NPR Meghan Collins Sullivan / NPR Like most readers, I happily spend a...
When I spoke to Ai Weiwei earlier this year, he insisted that “every time we talk about...
If one of the purposes of art is to help us see the world around us, then...
Who is visiting our major national collections at the moment? Too few of us, it seems. As...
Art books to isolate yourself, from Patti Smith to Lucian Freud – art week | Art and design books

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Art memory of the week Just Kids by Patti SmithStuck at home and want to read a...
‘LINA BO BARDI’ By Zeuler RM de A. Lima (Yale University Press). One of the problems with...
‘THE BLACK DADA READER’ By Adam Pendleton (Koenig Books). In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton started producing “Black...
PArtists are skilled mess makers, and their private lives are often as messy as their studios. In...
Entrance to the main branch of the New York Public Library (Image via Wikimedia Commons) The New...
Jhe artist, as Antony Gormley says of fellow sculptor Brancusi, is someone who “tries to remake the...