Distinguished Service Award winners Margaret Webster (2010) and Ted Goodman (2012) interviewed by Janis Ekdahl on January 20, 2017. Both are former board members. The two discuss their careers in librarianship, talking about the rise of MARC and the relationship between ARLIS/NA and the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the creation of VRA Core…[Read more]

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]

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.

Book review of Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation by Anthony Alan Shelton with essays by Titilope Salami and Nuno Porto, 2021. 236 p. ill. ISBN 9781773271149 (h/c), $60.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lauren McMullan, Librarian, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, laurenm@kiarts.org.

Book review of The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James K. McAuley. Yale University Press, 2021. 301 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23337-7 (h/c), $30.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lee Sorensen, Librarian for Visual Studies and Dance, Duke University Libraries, lslilly@duke.edu.

Book review of Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful edited by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz. The Columbus Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2021. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25893-6 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Head of Technical Services, National Gallery of Art, s-bender@nga.gov.