Excerpts Archive
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Sneak peek: Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America
Posted on December 11, 2015The recent coverage of artist Ai Weiwei’s planned use of Legos in an artwork about free speech to be included in the exhbition “Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei” at the […] -
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That Day by Laura Wilson… November 3rd, 1993
Posted on November 3, 2015The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and […] -
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Sneak peek: On becoming an art collector, from an interview with Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Posted on October 14, 2015For more than 30 years, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have devoted themselves to contemporary art, and through their passion and acumen have assembled an extraordinary collection. This fall, […] -
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Sneak peek: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
Posted on August 12, 2015For your reading pleasure (and it is a pleasure): a sneak preview of an exciting, forthcoming book by Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. […] -
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Sneak Peek: David Getsy’s Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
Posted on July 24, 2015David Getsy’s new book, Abstract Bodies, is eye-opening; by applying the field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history, he offers a new and revelatory approach to long-standing debates […] -
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National Poetry Month
Posted on April 28, 2015In honor of National Poetry Month, here is an appreciation of a few recent books that fuse verse and image. 1. Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010, by Yasmil Raymond and […] -
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Congratulations to Vittoria di Palma, author of Wasteland
Posted on March 26, 2015Congratulations to our author Vittoria di Palma, whose recent book Wasteland: A History has just received the Louis Gottschalk Prize for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century, […] -
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Arles, on or about Sunday, March 25th, 1888; To Theo van Gogh
Posted on March 25, 2015Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited […] -
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Nuenen, on or about Thursday, March 20th, 1884; To Theo van Gogh
Posted on March 20, 2015Throughout the month of March, we’re featuring excerpts from our recently-published collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a beautiful volume of van Gogh’s letters entitled Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, edited […] -
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Win a copy of An Eames Anthology!
Posted on March 12, 2015Ray Eames, the 20th century American designer, was once quoted as saying, “What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.” Of course, the myriad […]