Happy Monday! For those who didn’t observe International Book LoversDay last week, allow me to catch you up on how we celebrated. Three new books complement our reading list of art-world fiction, particularly Marin Kosut’s Art Monster, which aims to upendacademic convention and underscore the barriers facing artists in New York City. Read Mary Karmelek’s interview with the author, who once ran a gallery in an abandoned phone booth. I just finished Thomas Grattan’s novel In Tongues, recommended by Reviews Editor
Natalie Haddad earlier this month, and it pairs perfectly with Kosut’s indictment of the New York art world.
Also this week, Anthony Majanlahti reviews a new book about the engineers who saved the St. Peter’s Basilica dome from collapse after Michelangelo’s death and Staff Writer Isa Farfan speaks with Ron Tarver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who was ahead of his time. His snapshots of Black American cowboy culture in the 1990s are finally available in print. As always, happy reading!
— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor
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Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face. | Mary Karmelek
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ON OUR READING LIST
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The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US. | Isa Farfan
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A new book resurrects the oft-overlooked story of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, whose dome was saved from collapse by a team of mathematicians and the Pope. | Anthony Majanlahti
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ICYMI
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Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art. | Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, Natalie Haddad, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, and Lisa Yin Zhang
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