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Timeless Style: The Best Holiday Art, Architecture & Design Books To Give and Receive this Season
By Emily Waldorf With one scandal unraveling after another and the increasingly frightening economic situation, escaping into the pages of a beautifully bound and illustrated book is a simple and relatively inexpensive pleasure that feels right this holiday season. Well-edited art, design, and architecture books never go out of style and serve the dual purpose […]
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Tags: best architecture books, best design books, best holiday art books, Eric Karpeles, Portfolio.com, Sarah Thornton, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
By Emily Waldorf I have enjoyed reading Sarah Thornton’s insightful freelance pieces on the art world for quite some time, so you can imagine my delight when her new book, Seven Days in the Art World, was published. The material is based on over 250 interviews with a powerful cast of characters including dealers, auction […]
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Tags: Art Basel, ArtForum, CalArts, California Institute of the Arts, Christie's, Mia Fineman, Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World, Takashi Murakami, Turner Prize, Venice Biennale
By Emily Waldorf If you are curious about what goes on behind the scenes in the art world and would love to live a day in the glamorous (or not so glamorous as it turns out) shoes of a gallerina, then Danielle Ganek‘s debut novel, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, is for you. The […]
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Tags: Danielle Ganek, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Viking
Black and White Art for Bébé
By Emily Waldorf Interested in giving Junior a head start as a future art world connoisseur? Pick up art philanthropist Yana Peel’s newly released Art For Baby book published by Templar Publishing in conjunction with OUTSET Contemporary Art Fund. The book includes all black and white images that were donated to the project by artists […]
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Tags: Art For Baby, Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Keith Haring, NSPCC, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Takashi Murakami, Templar Publishing, Yana Peel
By Emily Waldorf If money were no object, which works of art would you pick out from the 20th century to create the ne plus ultra in art collections? Private art advisers Franck Giraud and Philippe Ségalot of the New York and Paris based art consultancy Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot (François Pinault is a client) take a stab […]
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Tags: Franck Giraud, Philippe Ségalot, The Impossible Collection
John Dorfman reviewed a new art thriller by Edward Dolnick in the August issue of Art & Antiques. The book, The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, is the latest book to explore the colorful scandal left behind by 1930’s Dutch master forger Han […]
Filed under: art forgeries, books, old masters | 6 Comments
Tags: Edward Dolnick, fake art, fake Vermeers, Han Van Meegeren, The Forger's Spell
Kimberly Stevens wrote a delightful piece in The New York Times, profiling glamorous Kelly Wearstler’s favorite design bookstore, Potterton Books, a miniscule, one-of-a kind gem (and ArtsÉtoile favorite) surrounded by expansive showrooms inside West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center.
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Tags: design books, Kelly Wearstler, Pacific Design Center, Potterton Books
Peter Schjeldahl, weekly art columnist for The New Yorker and contemporary post-modern poet has just published an exciting collection of essays titled, Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker. Schjeldahl is one of America’s most influential art critics, covering a diverse range of subjects from the Renaissance to the cutting edge contemporary, bringing to […]
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