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Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris: Book Review
The following originally appeared on my former book review column in May, 2010: The latest installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series gives Eric Northman fans a completely different view of the Nordic vampire. On May 4, 2010 Ace Hardcover released the latest installment of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, Dead in the Family. Charlaine Harris concluded her…
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Sheramy Bundrick’s Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh – A Review
Art historian and professor, Sheramy Bundrick shines in her debut novel about the final years of Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh.
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Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime – A Review
Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime pinpoints the cause of art crime as being the high rise of auction house prices beginning in 1958 to present day.
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Book Review: One Summer in Paris by Sarah Morgan
When I was in my early 20’s, I broke up with my high school/college sweetheart and packed up my life for a semester abroad in Paris. I am all about books that take me back to Paris, especially those that are about a newly single woman navigating her new world in one of the world’s…
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El Greco to Velazquez – A Review
Bass presents a clear and concise art historical view of the Spanish court under Philip III.
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On Carrington – A Life: An Overview of Gretchen Gerzina’s Dora Carrington Biography
When the British painter, Dora Carrington is discussed, the name Lytton Strachey is not too far behind. Carrington was associated with the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of artists who worked near Bloomsbury in London during the first half of the twentieth century. Its famous roster not only included Strachey, but Virginia Woolf as well. During her lifetime,…
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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century
A book review of Gill Perry’s, Francis Frascina’s and Dr. Charles Harrison’s Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century.
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Picasso Looks at Degas – A Review
Elizabeth Crowling creates an informative view of the near obsession that plagued Picasso when it came to the French painter, Edgar Degas.
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A Review of War-Revolution-Weimar: On Ida Katherine Rigby’s Exhibition and Catalog Essays
Covering German Expressionist prints, drawings, posters and periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Rigby draws attention to an overlooked period in art.
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Forging a Modern Identity: Masters of American Painting Born After 1847 – A Review
James W. Tottis has edited a fantastic catalog, the third in a series of titles co-published with the Detroit Institute of Arts.
