Fine Art

The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) received three awards for its publications from the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC). “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection,” an exhibition catalogue, received a gold award for content. The art in the catalogue reflects the many changes that occurred […]

RISD announced the publication of Infinite Radius: Founding Rhode Island School of Design, the first anthology about the establishment of America’s best-known college of art and design in 1877. Infinite Radius presents a handsome compendium of rare archival photographs, scholarly essays, previously unpublished manuscripts and reproductions of early acquisitions in […]

Few buildings are as inspiring to read about as to experience, but Chicago’s Lake Point Tower satisfies on both counts. While its iconic curvilinear silhouette is world famous, its lesser known technical and design distinctions are now described in Lake Point Tower: A Design History, by Edward Windhorst, architect, and […]

In the first ever extensive collection and exhibition of her work Alex Box gives full access to images which radically unsettle and deconstruct conventional images of beauty in fashion. Using everything from pigment to post it’s to magically transform her models Alex opens up the human form to a fantastical […]

AW Asia announced the publication of the Chinese-language version of Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know by Melissa Chiu, director of the Asia Society Museum in New York City and vice president of the Society’s global arts program. Chinese contemporary art continues to be a major force in […]

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, recently published The Venus Fixers : The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy’s Art During World War II. In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions […]

On November 17, 2009, The Monacelli Press will release Jim Olson Houses, the most comprehensive collection of projects built in the last decade by the founding partner of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects as well as the most prominent heir to the legacy of the 1950’s Northwest master architects. With […]

The creative legacy of Queensland Indigenous artist Ron Hurley is honoured through a new publication and an exhibition now showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art until October 25. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said the exhibition ‘Nurreegoo: The art and life of Ron Hurley 1946 – 2002’ featured […]

A new collection from Sunday Press Books reprints a complete run of Gustave Verbeek’s “Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo” (1903-1905), digitally restored and presented in their original size and colors. Also featured are a complete run of Verbeek’s “Loony Lyrics of Lulu” (1910) and a sampling […]

The latest book to be published by Elms Lesters is a comprehensive overview and documentation of the events surrounding THE LONDON SHOW, 14th November 2008, when Adam Neate and teams of distrubutors left 1000 artworks across all 33 London Boroughs. This limited edition book, which is being sold at cost, […]