Andrea Kirsh continues her “Books for Holiday Giving” series with two stellar volumes with images and commentary by and about Wendel A. White and Sonya Kelliher-Combs. Enjoy!
Read MoreEach year, our contributor Andrea Kirsh reads lots of book. During the holiday season, she selects a number of them to recommend to you. They might be great presents for the art loving spouse or friend. Or they might be something you decide you can’t live without.
Read MoreIt’s past the holiday, but our Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, offers up a story from his childhood, one in which the hero has an obsession with a Halloween costume that triggers an identity crisis. Happily, the hero solves the crisis.
Read MoreIn her review of Marianne Bernstein’s new photo book, ‘Theatre of the Everyday,’ Sharon Garbe comments that the book is a tasteful venue for the photographer’s works. She speculates on the book’s title, declaring that perhaps “Bernstein’s reference to the theater is a declaration of photography’s artifice, its subjectivity.”
Read MoreJanyce Glasper reads a book she calls “unputdownable.” The book is a novel and its story, set in Italy, compares the lives of a Victorian-era Black artist (lightly based on that of Edmonia Lewis), and a contemporary Somali artist researching the earlier artist’s life.
Read MoreIn this guest essay by Chris Funkhouser, the writer tells us of Theodore A. Harris’s ‘Road to Damascus’ encounter with a commissioned painted copy of a 1662 Rembrandt work, “The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Draper’s Guild” at The Curtis Institute. Harris had been working on a series called “Thesentür/The Thinker.”
Read MoreHappy 2024! We all hope you are thriving in the New Year and we promise to be here for you with News, Reviews, Features, Interviews and more, as we have been for the last 20 years! Onward.
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