Book review of Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 342 p. ill. ISBN 9780226745046 (h/c), $55.00. Reviewed March 2022 by John Hagood, Head of Reader Services, National Gallery of Art Library, j-hagood@nga.gov

Book review of The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity by Michael P. Murphy and Jeffrey Mansfield. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, November 2021. 255 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-942303-31-2 (h/c), $45.00.
Reviewed March 2022 by Courtney Stine, Assistant Professor and Director of Bridwell Art Library,…[Read more]

Book review of Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life by Sarah Jane Cervenak. Duke University Press, September 2021. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1355-6 (pbk.), $25.95. Reviewed March 2022 by Laura Christine Haynes, Annex Collections Assistant, Binghamton University, lhaynes@binghamton.edu.

Book review of Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair by Michael Dango. Stanford University Press, November 2021. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5036-2955-4 (pbk.), $30.00. Reviewed March 2022 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands by Dorothy Moss et al. Yale University Press in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, June 2021. ISBN 978-0-300-25744-1 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed March 2021 by Meredith Hale, Metadata Librarian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, mhale16@utk.edu.

Book review of Japanese Screens: Through a Break in the Clouds edited by Anne-Marie Christin et al. Abbeville Press Publishers, November 2021. 280 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-7892-1407-2 (h/c), $175.00. Reviewed March 2022 by
Maggie Murphy, Visual Art & Humanities Librarian, UNC Greensboro University Libraries, mmurphy@uncg.edu.

Book review of Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell. University of British Columbia Press distributed by the University of Chicago Press, December 2021. ISBN 978-0-7748-6736-8 (pbk.), $32.95.
Reviewed March 2021 by Freyja T. Catton, Independent artist, author, and librarian, freyjacatton@gmail.com.

Book review of The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton. Yale University Press, January 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23889-1 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed March 2022 by Paul Glassman, Director of Scholarly and Cultural Resources, Yeshiva University, paul.glassman@yu.edu.

On December 4th, 1990, ARLIS/NA President Lyn Korenic interviewed Judith Hoffberg, a founding member of ARLIS/NA and its director. They were joined by Amy Navratil Ciccone, Judith’s assistant at ARLIS/NA headquarters. Judith explains how in the late 60s, art librarians did not feel that their needs were being met by the American Library A…[Read more]

Janis Ekdahl interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Patricia I. Barnett (2008) and Angela Giral (2003) on January 20, 2017, at the Morgan Library. Pat worked at the Metropolitan Museum starting in 1970 and was later head librarian at the Frick (1994). Angela’s career began in Mexico before she moved onto Michigan and then Princeton, w…[Read more]

Emily Walz interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Sherman Clarke (2005) and Daniel Starr (2014) on June 6, 2017, at the New York Public Library. Both librarians are career catalogers who joined ARLIS in its earliest years; Clarke is best known as the founder of Art NACO. Clarke and Starr both share their experiences during the Vietnam War,…[Read more]