A review of the 2021 book by Shing Yin Khor, “The Legend of Auntie Po,” for inclusion in ARLIS/NA’s 2021 Notable Graphic Novels Review.

A review of the 2021 book by Barry Windsor-Smith, “Monsters,” for inclusion in ARLIS/NA’s 2021 Notable Graphic Novels Review.

A review of the 2021 book by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts,” for inclusion in ARLIS/NA’s 2021 Notable Graphic Novels Review.

Review: In the spring of 2020, when many felt untethered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Crafting Communities emerged to address this alienation by “enabling hands-on learning in a hands-off context” within the field of Victorian material culture, as the site notes. From a pilot program of two online events, the project has expanded to comprise fur…[Read more]

Review: CollectionBuilder offers open source templates enabling GLAM (gallery, library, archive and museum) institutions to create digital collections and exhibits without proprietary tools. This project seeks to simplify designing infrastructures and interfaces for sustainable, static sites in alignment with collections as data principles. While…[Read more]

Review: Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, a library of 170 titles published by Bloomsbury Publishing, aims to provide students in the visual arts with practically minded resources for inspiration, technical advice, and career development. The digital resource library is organized according to major visual arts disciplines: fashion and textiles,…[Read more]

Review: Visualizing the Virus is a cross between an online repository of original content and bibliography of existing resources. The purpose of the international and interdisciplinary project is to showcase both how the COVID-19 pandemic has been visualized and the inequalities it has revealed. The project was founded and is led by Dr Sria…[Read more]

Review: Libraries are all about accessibility. One may have the most beautiful library in the world and yet, if no one knows about it, it is only available to those who can physically be in the space and experience the tomes tactilely. We now live in the exciting time of digital resources which has made a significant difference to scholarship, has…[Read more]

Review of Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory edited by Stiftung Humboldt Forum Im Berliner Schloss. Hirmer Publishers distributed by the University of Chicago Press, September 2021. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3363-9 (h/c), $36.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning & Visual Resources Librarian, University…[Read more]

Review of Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss by Devrim Bayar et al. Yale University Press, July 2021. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25770-0 (pbk.), $45.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist, University of California, Merced, jshiroma@ucmerced.edu.

Review of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski. Yale University Press, April 2022. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26022-9 (h/c), $44.90. Reviewed July 2022 by Freyja T. Catton, Writer and Artist, Wordeater Consulting, wordeaterconsulting@gmail.com.

Review of Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting edited by David Saunders. J. Paul Getty Museum, January 2022. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-734-5 (h/c), $70.00.
Reviewed July 2022 by Karina Wilhelm, Manager, User Services, ASU Design and the Arts Library, karina.wilhelm@asu.edu.com.