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BOOK REPORT
by Walter Robinson
Apr. 6, 2009
Chick lit has come to bohemia, at least to judge from the handful of books that have recently arrived unbidden in the mail. I was immediately taken by the title character of The American Painter Emma Dial (W.W. Norton, $24.95), a novel by Los Angeles mother-of-two Samantha Peale. A 30-ish New York artist with striking gray hair and uncanny painting skills, Emma seems authentic to her core, and inhabits a quite believable contemporary bohemia set in SoHo, the East Village and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Mar. 26, 2008
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Gimme Shelterby James Croak The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture.
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Nov. 14, 2008
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OPPOSITE SECTSby Robert Moeller Two new books, on Women Collectors and the Circus.
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Oct. 27, 2008
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PARTY READINGby Deborah Ripley The New York Art Book Fair revives an antiquarian field.
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Aug. 15, 2008
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LOVE AND LOSSby Charlie Finch A review of Peter Schjeldahl’s new collection of art criticism, Let’s See.
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July 30, 2008
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ANONYMOUS IS A PHOTOGRAPHERby Robert Moeller In three recent books, ordinary people as photographers and as photographic subject.
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July 23, 2008
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BEHIND THE SCENESby Andrew Decker Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art Worldlays bare the workings of contemporary art.
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June 10, 2008
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BOOK REPORTby Walter Robinson Art & Today, Great Collectors of Our Time, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Gary Panter, and Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruzalta.
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Oct. 5, 2007
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THE LAST SENSUALISTSby Michèle C. Cone Death and eroticism in the new masculinity of the 1920s.
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Sept. 7, 2007
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DARKNESS VISIBLEby Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.
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Dec. 20, 2006
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BOOK REPORT
by Walter Robinson
Notable new titles, in time for the gift-giving season.
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Nov. 8, 2006
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OWNING ART
by Jane Finigan
Louisa Buck and Judith Greer team up on a new handbook for the contemporary art collector.
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Oct. 16, 2006
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MURAKAMI’S GUIDE TO SUCCESS
by Kay Itoi
Japan’s million-dollar man explains how he got rich by appealing to Western taste.
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Oct. 4, 2006
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CULTURE AND RESISTANCE
by P.C. Smith
Photojournalist Jonathan Moller documents genocide and reconciliation in Guatemala.
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Aug. 11, 2006
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BOOK REPORT
by Abraham Orden
Essay collections by John Updike and Lawrence Rinder.
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July 21, 2006
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THE SCENE CHANGES
by Peter Plagens
Jed Perl’s New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century.
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Feb. 22, 2006
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PERILS OF PUBLISHING
by John A. Walker
A memoir of the late British artist John Latham, who destroyed books as his art form.
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Dec. 8, 2005
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Combat Zone
by Stephen Maine
Art criticism as a contact sport, via Jed Perl’s New Art City.
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Sept. 8, 2005
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Book Report
by Walter Robinson
Art in North Korea, snapshots in Nazi Germany, more.
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Visible Flaws
by Ben Davis
Art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell's What Do Pictures Want?
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January 13, 2005
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AMBLING FAMILY
by Brian Riley
Poet Bob Holman collaborates with Chuck Close.
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January 11, 2005
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BOOK REPORT
by Nicole Davis
Ten new art books from presses large and small.
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