Book review: Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Terezita Romo. Yale University Press, March 2022. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25898-1 (h/c), $50.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300258981/traitor-survivor-icon. Reviewed May 2022 by Clayton C. Kirking, New York Public Library, Retired,…[Read more]

Book review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara J. Bloemink, and Florine Stettheimer. Hirmer, February 2022. 435 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3834-4 (h/c), $29.95. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-3-3/florine_stettheimer-2235/. Reviewed May 2022 by Vada Komistra, Library Technician, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.,…[Read more]

[Read in the voice of Lucille Ball.]

Are you the popular, go-to librarian for all things image-related? Do you get tired, rundown, and listless from all the requests to create data visualizations? Charts, graphs, maps, infographics, and multimodal storytelling got you flummoxed?

Never fear! The answer to all your problems is at the…[Read more]

The University of Utah’s Marriott Library introduced VR systems to patrons in 2016. Back then, set-up and use required considerable technical know-how and there were few applications of the technology beyond entertainment and passive education. VR systems today are intuitive, relatively inexpensive, and can be applied to learning environments,…[Read more]

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.

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]