Friday, May 1, 2009

New book highlights 5/1/2009

Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits
By George S. Keyes, Vincent van Gogh, Roland Dorn, Joseph J. Rishel, Detroit Institute of Arts, George T. M. Shackelford, Katherine Sachs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judy Sund
Contributor Katherine Sachs
Edition: illustrated
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2000
ISBN 0500092907, 9780500092903
272 pages

Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, this book brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life, augmented by reproductions of many of his most important other paintings. Six original essays by leading art historians examine van Gogh's portraits at different stages of his career. 228 illustrations, 206 in color.

Joel Shapiro : sculpture and drawings / Hendel Teicher ; with an introductory essay by Michael Brenson


Francis Bacon : paintings : April 6-May 18, 2002, Tony Shafrazi Gallery

Inside UPA : photographs from the collection of the Bosustow family, the Cannon family, the Saperstein family, Fred Crippen, Howard Beckerman, Sam Clayberger, Joe Messerli / [book concept + design, Amid Amidi].


Directory / National Association of Schools of Art and Design

Fantastic recurrence of certain situations = fantástica repetición de ciertas situaciones / the British Council, the Photographers' Gallery, London, Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid ; Corinne Day ... [et al. ; essay by Kate Bush.]

Blown away / Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox ; with essays by Dave King and Tony Leggett.

Dryden Goodwin [videorecording (DVD)]

Dryden Goodwin / with essays by Sophie Howarth and Sean Cubitt

Navigating color space [videorecording (DVD)] / with Robert Gamblin ; DVD produced by Mainframe Digital


Color theory for light and paint [videorecording (DVD)] / True Media Foundation ; Ziska Childs Design LLC ; Producer/director, Ziska Childs ; co-producer, Matt Hays.

Chris Johanson : January 27 - May 27, 2007

The miniature worlds of Bruce Metcalf : September 28-December 21, 2008 : Palo Alto Art Center / curated by Signe Mayfield.


Fabric of myth : Compton Verney


Inventing spaces : three artists' interventions in the white cube

M.K. Guth

Marc Dombrosky


Apex : Wes Mills

Tatana Kellner : embarrassing facts, confronting history and repairing the world, January 27-March 12, 2009.

Morten Schelde : Treasure Island, dear Tiger! : Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany, 2006.

Paul Schütze : twilight science

Sandra Johnston, André Eric Letourneau : P/ACT.

Shirley Kaneda : new paintings : October 5 - November 3, 2007

Leslie Poole : Encounters with the goddess 1981-1991 : a decade of paintings and drawings / essays by Karen Hasselfelt, exhibition curator, & Eva Mai Allan ; interview with Karen Hasselfelt & Leslie Poole.

Xaviera Simmons