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| Thursday, December 31, 2009 | |
 | "Keith Haring Journals" by Keith Haring and Shepard Fairey Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon.(view more...) |
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 | |
 | "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection" by Stein, Rosenthal, Bailey, Rishel, Mi The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this handsome volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations.(view more...) |
| Thursday, December 24, 2009 | |
 | "Lives of the Artists" by Calvin Tomkins For more than three decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In "Lives of the Artists" ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’s cool and ironic style to record the new directions art is taking during these days of limitless freedom. As formal technique and rigorous training continue to fall away, art has become an approach to living. As the author says, "the lives of contemporary artists are today so integral to what they make that the two cannot be considered in isolation."(view more...) |
| Saturday, December 19, 2009 | |
 | Milton Avery chronicles the work of an artist who, although did not become a serious, full-time painter until after he moved to New York at the age of forty, managed to carve out a unique position for himself in the art world over the next thirty-five years. A friend and colleague of the Abstract Expressionists who nevertheless maintained his commitment to representation, Avery was enormously important to several succeeding generations of artists and produced some of the most resonant and beloved images in American art history.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 11, 2009 | |
 | "Birds of Paradise" Gaby Herbstein Photographer Gaby Herbstein presented her new book, "Birds of Paradise". It brings to light a strong artistic and moral commitment with the environment, featuring artists such as Julio Bocca, Gustavo Cerati and Natalia Oreiro, among others. The Fortabat Museum, in the Puerto Madero area of Buenos Aires, was the selected location for the book launch. It includes 188 photographs in 294 pages and 28 chapters, to benefit the Huella Ecológica [Ecological Footprint] program at the Fundación Azara [Azara Foundation]. Bursting with rich colors as red, green, pink, blue and yellow, with prevailing black and white backgrounds, Herbstein plays in her book with feathers, rhinestones, stencil outlines, fabrics, and paper to turn her models into flashy birds.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | |
 | "The International Art Markets: The Essential Guide for Collectors and Investors" by James Goodwin Fifty-eight local experts assess art's potential as an investment class on a country-by-country basis in 43 different countries, Designed for collectors and investors looking to broaden their knowledge of the global market for art investment, this book includes history, buying patterns, and market trends.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 04, 2009 | |
 | "Photographs, Histories, and Meanings" by Marlene Kadar, Jeanne Perreault, Linda Warley Photographs in the public eye have shaped public perception and social meaning for the last one hundred and fifty years or more. This collection reexamines photographs and their social history, the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. The authors here trace shifting historical contexts, intentional or accidental interpretive distortions, and ambiguous and multiple meanings. This collection of essays wishes to know how images can be believed, given our awareness of the uncertainty of meaning. The contributors in this collection believe the histories they convey are the stories of our lives. To know the photographs is to know ourselves – with all our ambiguities, distortions, and shifts available for the looking.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 | |
 | "Art Making and Studio Space" by Lynne Perrella "Art Making and Studio Spaces" is a visual studio tour, an opportunity to turn the key and discover the inner workings of artists in their ultra-personal, unique workspaces. The mission of the book is to look inside studios in progress, amidst the throes of the artmaking process, and to investigate the thoughts of the artists within. This book reveals the interplay between artist and studio, and explores how each workspace reflects a different, distinctive creative journey. (view more...) |
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