Hans Janssen’s Piet Mondrian: A Life gives a comprehensive picture of the Dutch artist’s life and character, but leaves some questions unanswered.
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10 New Art Books to Read This October
The story of a Gee’s Bend quilt, McKenzie Wark’s new memoir, Native photography, motherhood in light of Agnes Martin, and more.
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Bani Abidi’s Conflicted Ode to Karachi
The Artist Who lets readers peer into a postcolonial space through critical engagement and visuals designed to both educate and entertain.
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The Tarotic Roots of Leonora Carrington’s Art
Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.
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The Dreamlike Paths of Dialogue with a Somnambulist
The texts in Chloe Aridjis’s new collection of stories and essays unspool not via chronological order, but through the strange rationality of dreams.
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Haunting Photographs Document the Erasure of Armenians in Turkey
Andréas Lang’s pictures, now compiled in a new book, convey “what the Turkish state wants people to remember and what it wants them to forget.”
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A Multi-Generational Gee’s Bend Story, Told by One Quilt
Stitching Love and Loss narrates the history of the Pettway family, the community of Gee’s Bend, and the entwined tragedies of slavery and Indigenous dispossession.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Marxist Criticism of Painting
Pasolini’s consideration of art included essays, reviews, poems, and autobiographical meditations.
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The Warhol Authentication Debacle That Launched an Antitrust Case
Richard Dorment’s upcoming book Warhol After Warhol delves into the sordid history of the Andy Warhol Foundation.
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Read an Excerpt of Lucy Lippard’s Newest Book, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir
Lippard muses on her early years in New York City, from discovering a love of art writing to encountering Marcel Duchamp when she worked at MoMA’s library.
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Anne Truitt’s Journals Strike a Proustian Note
Truitt was that rare artist whose words are regarded as highly as her works.
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Marie Herwald Hermann Finds Poetry in Ceramics
And the Walls Became the World All Around provides an accessible visual language to understand Hermann’s ceramic work in book form.
