With its open layout and boundless glass walls, Miller House and Garden epitomizes American modernism—in the unexpected location of south central Indiana, surrounded by honey locust trees and fields of corn. A quintessential expression of American modernism, Miller House and Garden—created in 1952 by design geniuses Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Assouline presents a collection of these drawings in Art for Heart: Remembering 9/11. This exquisite tome includes selections of artwork and messages from the New York University Child Study Center, the Art for Heart Program of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Dear […]
Diane Arbus: A Chronology (October, 2011) reads like a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the private thoughts […]
Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture, June 2011) traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress. The albums […]
In the summer of 2004, the New York photographer Richard Rothman traveled west with a 4×5 camera to explore the remaining fragments of ancient old-growth forests in Northern California. He pitched a tent amid the mammoth stands of redwoods and began making formal, intricate portraits of the forest, which he […]
“The Noise Beneath the Apple™”, a new art book celebrating the street music scene in the subways of New York City, will showcase performers making a living entertaining commuters. The developers of the project are looking for financial support to complete the project. “We have spent over 18 months collecting […]
History’s Shadow, a new photography book by artist David Maisel (Nazraeli Press, $75, hardcover, 72 pages, ISBN 978-1-59005-278-4), examines art and artifacts through museum conservation x-rays. Like spectral transmissions conveying messages across time, the images in History’s Shadow make the invisible visible – expressing the shape-shifting nature of time itself […]