The presentation slides from this session provide a comprehensive guide to library program reviews, an increasingly common practice in academic libraries. The session emphasizes the importance of honesty in highlighting the library’s strengths and weaknesses during these reviews.

The slides detail a library program review’s processes, tools,…[Read more]

Review: Chryssa & New York by Michelle White et al. Dia Art Foundation and The Menil Collection, May 2023. 184 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-27198-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Scott R. Davis, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts Librarian, Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York, scott.davis@qc.cuny.edu.

Book review of One Site-One Space-One Work: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue edited by Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim. Hirmer Publishers, March 2023. 333 p. ill. ISBN978-3-7774-3787-3 (h/c), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023, Morgan Yanni, Reference and Collection Development Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute, myanni@pratt.edu.

Book review of Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez by David Pullins et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2023. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-756-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Keli Rylance, Head Librarian, Richardson Memorial Library, Saint Louis Art Museum, keli.rylance@slam.org.

Book review of Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery by Rosalyn Deutsche. The University of Chicago Press, December 2022. 304 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81960-0 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Annie Sollinger, Visual Archivist, UMass Amherst, annies@library.umass.edu.

Book review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s by Claudia Calirman. Duke University Press, April 2023. 264 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1940-4 (pbk.), $26.95. Reviewed July 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.

Book review of Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch by Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koeing. Yale University Press, April 2023. 104 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26969-7 (pbk.), $25.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French language and literature, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture by Barbara Sjoholm. University of Minnesota Press, March 2023. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1197-3 (h/c), $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/from-lapland-to-sa-pmi. Reviewed July 2023 by Amy Furness, Head, Library & Archives, Art Gallery of O…[Read more]

Book review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. ISBN 978-0-226-82246-4 (h/c), $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo182595907.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Fong Ku, Reference and Learning Services Specialist, Alberta University of the Arts,…[Read more]

Book review of The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden by Susann Wintsch et al. Hirmer, February 2023. 139 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-4033-0 (pbk.), $39.95. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo196843842.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Lenge Hong, Special Collections Cataloger, Morgan Library & Museum, lhong@themorgan.org.

Book review of The Sassoons by Esther da Costa Meyer and Claudia J. Nahson. Yale University Press, May 2023. ISBN 978-0-300-26430-2 (h/c), $60.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264302/the-sassoons/. Reviewed July 2023 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, SCAD, jgorzalski@scad.edu.

Book review of Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang. Duke University Press, November 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1635-9 (pbk.), $25.95. https://dukeupress.edu/surface-relations. Reviewed July 2023 by Shandy Frey, Research and Instruction Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),…[Read more]

Book review of Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite et al. Getty Publications, May 2023. 168 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-844-1 (h/c), $40.00. https://shop.getty.edur/products/rediscovering-black-portraiture-978-1606068168. Reviewed July 2023 by Andrea Walton, MA/MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.