Book Club
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May Book Bag: from a comic compendium inspired by MoMA to a turning point in the history of photography
Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, contributors include Nancy Newhall, Aperture, 112pp, £30 (pb) First published by Aperture in 1965…
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The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably did not know about the Medieval masterpiece
Often described as the “world’s most mysterious manuscript”, the Voynich Manuscript is written in an unknown script and filled with…
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Sex, beauty and the body—how Helen Chadwick shaped British contemporary art
Provocative, punky and perverse are just a handful of the adjectives often used to describe the work of Helen Chadwick…
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An expert’s guide to artists’ books: four must-read publications on the genre
Artists’ books provide an intimate experience between the reader and the artist, but can sometimes be tricky to get to…
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April Book Bag: from a new angle on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to the re-issuing of bell hooks’s art essays – The Art Newspaper
Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, Adriano Marinazzo, Muscarelle Museum of Art, 243pp, $49 (hb) Is there anything left to…
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The trials and tribulations of putting together Lucian Freud’s catalogue raisonné – The Art Newspaper
The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which…
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New book looks at the shaping of Modern art in the Middle East beyond politics and war – The Art Newspaper
The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner’s ambitious and timely overview of Middle Eastern art from 1900 to today features more…
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An expert’s guide to Ruth Asawa: five must-read books on the Japanese American artist – The Art Newspaper
• Click here for more reading lists on the world’s greatest artists The first major posthumous survey of the Japanese…
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