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January 3, 2022 • View in browser

A BIPOC Tarot Deck for Navigating Trying Times

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution reinstates tarot’s enduring ability to offer structure and guidance in moments of social unrest. | Faith Adiele

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Painter Edith Schloss Remembers a Life Lived in Art

Schloss’s The Loft Generation creates a mirror-memoir, as literary portraiture doubles as veiled self-portraiture. | Tim Keane

A Treasure Trove of Midcentury Modern Architecture

Breuer’s Bohemia is centered around the life and work of Marcel Breuer, but touches upon an entire cohort of Modernist influencers. | Sarah Rose Sharp

A History of Utopian Nudist Clubs in Buttoned-up Britain

In the mid-1900s, nudists in Britain believed they could improve national health and remedy buttoned-up social norms and rigid class divisions. | Lauren Moya Ford

Through Photography, a Book Tries to Capture the Slow Creep of History

For the past nine years, Michael Sherwin visited and photographed ancient earthworks, sacred landforms, documented archeological sites, and contested battlegrounds of Native American people. | Sarah Rose Sharp

The Penalty Presidency

A conversation with Richard Kraft about his artist book in which he created penalty flags for nearly 10,000 of Trump’s misdeeds. | Louis Bury

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Best of 2021: Our Top 10 Art Books

Memoirs by Ai Weiwei and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, a biography on Harold Rosenberg, and more are on our top list for art tomes this year.