A Color for Our Times: “Safety Orange” Considers a Curious Hue
A new theoretical text convincingly argues that orange is the new red, white, and blue.
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Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art”
A new book details how the repatriation debates got their start in postcolonial Africa.
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Battle Over Robert Indiana’s Multimillion-Dollar Estate Explored in New Book
Bob Keyes's The Isolation Artist attempts to peel back layers of mystery surrounding the artist's final years.
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A Book Nominally about Rubens Offers an Honest Portrait of the Way the Author’s Mind Works—and Sometimes Doesn’t
Morgan Meis doesn't make points so much as bellow them with varying levels of coherence.
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Carceral Aesthetics: The Conditions of Making Art in Prison
Nicole R. Fleetwood's new book explores prison art and the broader visual culture of incarceration.
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Mind’s Eye
Vernon Lee—a British philosopher, critic, and author of ghost stories—believed that we inherit an artwork's affect by closely studying its composition.
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Daily Reading: Artist Ebooks from Badlands Unlimited
Badlands Unlimited has a stated interest in publishing “books in an expanded field.” The press’s idea of an expanded field can be understood literally, and even modestly, as encompassing anything that…
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To Have and to Know: Camille Henrot’s Elephant Child
Camille Henrot wants to look at everything. Then she wants to catalogue, systematize, and place it all into a context of her own labyrinthine design. She knows it’s an unhealthy compulsion, but she do…
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Burn Book: On Fire by Jonathan Griffin
Ross Simonini reviews Jonathan Griffin's recent publication On Fire. Fires are real, not just mythological, and this brief, frank document about fires in artists’ studios suggests not the slightest…
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Outing Darger
Ever since the work of the now legendary Chicago-based outsider artist and writer Henry Darger came to light in 1977, four years after his death at age 81, there has been wild art world speculation…
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Win AD’s Founders Bank on Public Disclosure. What Are They Hiding?
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