Book on ‘useful art’ offers timely retort to the commodification of artists’ work – The Art Newspaper
This is not a book about art. It is about useful art, which is quite another thing. John Byrne knows ...
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Minneapolis gallery launches mutual aid colouring book in response to Ice operations in the city – The Art Newspaper
Joining the blue-chip offerings at Frieze Los Angeles next week is an art-filled mutual aid colouring book that seeks to ...
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The dark side of collecting: book reveals ugly history of art’s great coveters – The Art Newspaper
The concept of pĭ was coined in 17th-century Ming China to describe the mental condition of obsessive art collectors among the Mandarin ...
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‘Lust for Life’: The Van Gogh book designed to fit in pockets of US soldiers during the Second World War – The Art Newspaper
Irving Stone’s 1934 bestseller Lust for Life: A Novel based on the Life of Van Gogh has sold over 25 ...
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Driving in Van Gogh’s footsteps: the 1907 book that imagined a dream art pilgrimage – The Art Newspaper
In 1907 Octave Mirbeau, a Parisian avant-garde writer, published a fictional travelogue about a drive through northern Europe, which included ...
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December Book Bag: from a photographic record of a lost nightclub to the tale of an accidental art heist – The Art Newspaper
Liz Johnson Artur: PDA, Bierke Verlag, 224pp, £50 (hb)The Russian Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur presents a photographic record of ...
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November Book Bag: from a tome of Japanese printmakers to the first Nina Chanel Abney monograph – The Art Newspaper
Modern Japanese Printmakers: New Waves and Eruptions, Malene Wagner, Prestel, 272pp, £35 (hb)This new survey celebrates the lives and work ...
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Judge Lets Authors Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Book Copying
Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! A federal judge has decided that a group of authors can advance ...
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October Book Bag: from a myth-busting Chaïm Soutine biography to an anthology of Palestinian artists and writers – The Art Newspaper
Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art, Celeste Marcus, PublicAffairs, 304pp, $34 (hb)This biography of the expressionist ...
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Dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was copied from widely available book, suggests new research – The Art Newspaper
If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) painting looks a little out of place as the ...
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