Andrea Kirsh

January 2, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Two great art books for the New Year focus on under-known artists, Lorraine O’Grady and Gladys Nilsson

Andrea Kirsh, Artblog’s art book aficionado, reviews two great books for reading and looking: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Writing in Space 1973- 2019” and “Gladys Nilsson Honk!; Fifty Years of Painting” published by Matthew Marks Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery. This is a great place to start your 2021 New Year’s Resolution to read more. Happy New Year!

December 2, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for holiday giving, Part 1

Andrea Kirsh reviews and recommends three outstanding artbooks to buy for yourself or a loved one this holiday season– they spotlight the legend Angela Davis, Pennsylvania artist Thaddeus Mosley, and Gond artists from India!

August 18, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Two art books for our era of racial reckoning

Andrea Kirsh reviews Maya Stovall’s “Liquor Store Theatre” and Rotland Press Original, “The N-Word; Paintings by Peter Williams,” art books that examine racism and systemic inequality in Detroit and beyond.

June 22, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

During the Spanish flu, existential paintings by Edward Munch and Egon Schiele

June 5, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Tuberculosis, rampant in the Romantic era, personified as the feminine ideal

May 14, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Black Death and centuries of artists reckoning with mortality

This third edition of “Art Following Epidemics” by Art Historian Andrea Kirsh presents a snapshot of important works on paper following the Black Death and the infiltration of death imagery in European art for more than two centuries following the plague.

May 11, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Two women artists carved different paths through New York’s ‘60s-era downtown art scene

May 3, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Art exploited as propaganda after outbreak of bubonic plague in Jaffa in 1799

In the second post in a new series, “Art Following Epidemics,” Andrea Kirsh explores a propaganda painting commissioned by Napoleon during the bubonic plague.

April 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Il Redentore, a post-plague church in Venice

In a new series “Art following epidemics” triggered by thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea Kirsh refers back to her field of Art History to examine art made during or after other epidemics.

February 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 2

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part two of two reviews Kate Morris’s “Shifting Grounds; Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art” and Katya García-Antón “Sovereign Words; Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism”

February 26, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Ambitious and fine, ‘Invisible City’ illuminates, recovers Philadelphia’s experimental art of 1950-80

Andrea Kirsh reviews “Invisible City” a multi-venue exhibition that educates and illuminates the radical, experimental, and non-traditional art scene in Philadelphia during 1956-1976, which closes April 4, 2020.

February 25, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 1

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part one of two reviews Philip J. Deloria’s “Becoming Mary Sully; Toward an American Indian abstract.”

November 27, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for holiday giving, Part 2

And here you are, with Part 2 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual roundup of the best in art books! Get going on your holiday shopping by picking up one of these books, and don’t forget to check out Part 1 if you missed it!

November 27, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for holiday giving, Part 1

Part 1 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual roundup of the best in art books is here just in time for Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to check out Part 2!