Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.
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How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.
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The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo
The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.
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The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House
The life of Dr. Edith Farnsworth was long distorted by her dealings with Mies van der Rohe, who designed her glass house in Illinois. Almost Nothing asks us to take a closer look.
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The Wild, Inclusive Brilliance of New York’s Pyramid Club
A book of oral histories about the now-shuttered venue takes us through those who came before, made it big, and died too soon.
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The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.
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The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph
Time Machines reveals entanglements between the largely forgotten optical telegraph and artistic movements in 19th-century France.
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Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.
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Henri Matisse Never Really Left Morocco
Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and exploration.
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If the US-Mexico Border Could Talk
Echoes from the Borderlands, which transcribes a sound installation tracing the border, insists on the land’s inextricability from the history to which it bears witness.
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How Painting Saved One of Our Most Iconic Designers
A visit to Michaels craft store helped restore book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund during a deep bout of depression.
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A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation
A new book pulses with artistic forms by Puerto Rican artists born of necessity, urgency, collaboration, and activism.