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!
The Woodmere has assembled a picture of a self-organized community that thrived without outside help; in doing so, the museum enables the rest of Philadelphia’s art community to see what they’ve been missing.
Roberta sits down with Barkley Hendricks, whose exhibit, ‘Birth of the Cool’ is a wow at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The show features Hendricks’s signature portraits of African American people looking like icons worthy of worship – a little mysterious and forbidding and downright gorgeous.
