At the request of Stanford slide librarian Nancy McCauley, Luraine Tansey talks about her career and the foundation of the Slide Curators Association (now VRA) and ARLIS/NA. In addition to working in slide libraries, Tansey was a curator, professor, woodworker, mother, and contributor to Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. She discusses her…[Read more]

Your studio archives comprise the work you create, the work you have sold, the documentation of your work, and, ultimately, the creation of your legacy. This guide will help you get organized. It’s based on real-life scenarios and best practices in archiving and preservation and will aid artists in every career stage, from emerging artists to…[Read more]

Merrill Smith, ARLIS/NA President, moderates this 1992 panel discussion at the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Chicago, on the occasion of the society’s 20th anniversary. Panelists include two charter members and three other longstanding members: Wolfgang Freitag, Bill Walker, Mary Williamson, Sherman Clarke, and Kathryn Martinez. All have had r…[Read more]

Book review of Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw by Kathleen Ash-Milby et al. The Art Institute of Chicago distributed by Yale University Press, July 2021. 252 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25748-9 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Leslie Vega, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Macdonald-Kelce Library, The University of Tampa, lesliemartavega@gmail.com.

Book review of Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged by Hannah Wohl. The University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 232 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-78455-7 (pbk.), $30.00. Reviewed January 2022 byOlivia Piepmeier, Arts & Humanities Librarian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, olivia.piepmeier@umassd.edu.

Book review of Nuno: Visionary Japanese Textiles by Reiko Sudo and Naomi Pollock. Thames & Hudson Inc, December 2021. 380 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02268-9 (h/c), $75.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lynora Williams, Library Director, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, lwilliams@nmwa.org.