Review of Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall. The Pennsylvania State University Press, February 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-09060-3 (h/c), 109.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Shira Loev Eller, Art & Design Librarian, George Washington University, sfl@gwu.edu.

Review of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape by Daniel Kaven. Birkhäuser, February 2022. 456 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-0356-2438-0 (h/c), $69.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian, Ball State University, aetrendler@bsu.edu.

Review of Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection edited by Pi Li. Thames & Hudson Inc, January 2021. 544 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02434-8 (h/c), $85.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Carol Ng-He, Digital Collections Curator, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, cnghe@uchicago.edu.

Review of Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Amy Miller Dehan. Cincinnati Art Museum in association with D Giles Limited, February 2022. 128 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-56-3 (h/c), $49.95.
Reviewed July 2022 by Sara Mautino, Librarian, Oklahoma State University School of Architecture – Cunningham Architecture Library, Oklahoma State…[Read more]

Review of Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation by Matthew Biro. University of Minnesota Press, March 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-0463-0 (pbk.), $39.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Deborah Ultan, Arts & Design Librarian, University of Minnesota, ultan004@umn.edu.

Review: Launched in the spring of 2021, Materia: Journal of Technical Art History is a biannual, born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the technical study of art objects. Materia is situated at the convergence of conservation science, art history, and related fields, and is co-edited by an international group of conservators and art…[Read more]

Review: The aim of Nautilus Catalogue is to provide a database of Nautilus pompilius shells-turned-art object by aggregating information from a variety of disparate collections – and it does exactly this. Created by independent art historian Marsley Kehoe, Nautilus Catalogue consists of a web-based database and downloadable dataset that expands on…[Read more]

Review: The Google Arts & Culture Experiment Play a Kandinsky is an interactive digital resource that provides participants a unique opportunity to delve into the question “What if you could hear color?” Using the writings of abstract painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky, Play a Kandinsky demonstrates the complex neurological condition of…[Read more]

Review: The Art and Obsolescence Podcast describes itself as “Conversations with artists, collectors, and professionals shaping the past, present, and future of art and technology.” The podcast presents the experiences and thoughts of each interviewee about the specific challenges and rewards involved in making and preserving time-based and eph…[Read more]

Review: PodcastRE is an interface resource to preserve podcasts and collect links and metadata records. Website users can search the database, analyze the metadata using visualization tools, and stream the audio if the original feed is still available online. PodcastRE(search) is founded and directed by Dr. Jeremy Morris of University of Wisconsin…[Read more]

Review: Internet Culturale is a multiyear project that aims to bring together in one platform the digital assets created by Italian repositories. This national network of partners provides access to thousands of materials made available by libraries, archives, and museums. The platform is managed by ICCU – the Italian Central Institute for the…[Read more]

Heat waves and wildfires, global pandemics, floods and droughts. We are already experiencing the damaging impact of climate change. Natural disasters put library facilities and collections at risk, while mass migration alters who uses libraries and why. Can we envision library futures that respond to the hopes, fears, and needs of our…[Read more]

Book review of The Renaissance Restored: Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Matthew Hayes. Getty Conservation Institute, July 2021. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-696-6 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed May 2022 by Andrea Walton, MA,MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.

Book review of Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy by Monique Kornell et al. Getty Publications, March 2022. 249 p. Illus. ISBN: 978-1-60606-769-7 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed May 2022 by Alfonso Huerta, Circulation Coordinator, ArtCenter College of Design, alfonso.huerta@artcenter.edu.