The most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to have been published for many years reveals for the first time comprehensive details of what is probably the world’s best private collection of pieces intended primarily for the European market. The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision […]
The Artspace Gallery have published an exhibition catalogue for the exhibition Martin Greenland:Uncharted Land, both online and as a hard copy. Martin Greenland, Northern Landscape, 2011, Oil on canvas, Artspace Gallery UNCHARTED LAND MARTIN GREENLAND – 2011 on-line Exhibition Catalogue ISBN no:9780956307279 To order visit: http://www.artspacegallery.co.uk/OtherWWW/ASG_index_publications_form.htm Artspace Gallery 84, St. […]
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, […]
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primarily from Arbus’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the private thoughts […]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 […]
Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s (Henry Holt and Company/on sale: July 19, 2011), by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, is the first definitive look at the rise of the Los Angeles art scene. In the 1960s, L.A. was the epicenter of cool. Sharing anecdotes from the artists […]