book review

The author with Ray Johnson installing A Lot of Shirley Temple Postcards exhibition, March 1968
A Review of Michael Findlay’s “Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man, New York in the Sixties”

Art dealers, particularly those who have reached the heights of Scottish-born …

Sybil and David Yurman in the atelier at the Vestry Street headquarters, New
A Book Review of “Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers”

When one thinks of luxury jewelry, more often than not, David…

Nina Beier, Women & Children, 2022. Found bronze sculptures, dimensions variable, installation view, The High Line, New York, 2022–3
A Book in Celebration of Women in the Arts: "Great (Women) Sculptors"

Great (Women) Sculptors is part of a series of …

Pamela Rosenkran, Old Tree, 2023. Steel, polymers, pigments; 23 × 23 × 24 3/5 feet. May 2023 – September 2024 p. 82-83.
ELEVATED: ART ON THE HIGH LINE, A Book Review

In 1999, Friends of the High Line was founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, with the intention of preserving the greenery that had developed in the underused, elevated train…

Melchor Pérez Holguín, Pietà (detail), Bolivia, c. 1720.
Why the LACMA’s “Archive of the World” Catalogue Matters
The recent publication Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800, a companion catalogue for a show of the same name and the first comprehensive study of LACMA's notable…
Till House, 2014, Navidad, Chile, WMR Arquitectos. Picture credit: © Sergio Pirrone
The Most Extraordinary Homes of the Last Century
The editors at Phaidon publishing have released a new book that chronicles the dramatic developments in home design during the 20th century. Houses: Extraordinary Living showcases 400 houses by some…
Leonardo, study for the unfinished Adoration of the Magi , ca. 1481.
Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered
In a world of da Vinci biographical sketches, Bambach's four-volume tome, Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered, is a masterpiece.
Joe Colombo (designer and client), Visiona I, bedroom-living room, Milan, Italy, completed 1968.
Ten of the Greatest Interior Designs from the Last Century