Review of Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki. University of Minnesota Press, June 2022. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4 $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tsuchi. Reviewed November 2022 by John Hosford, Art Librarian, Scholes Library, Alfred University, hosford@alfred.edu

Review of Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf. Princeton University Press, March 2022. 296 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-691-16638-4 (h/c), $60.00. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166384/gawkers. Reviewed November 2022 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University,…[Read more]

Review of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision by edited by Laura Elisa Pérez and Ann Leimer. Duke University Press, August 2022. ISBN 978-1-4780-1569-7 (pbk), $29.95. https://www.dukeupress.edu/consuelo-jimenez-underwood. Reviewed November 2022 by Tracy Meserve, Librarian, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile…[Read more]

Review of Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art by Patricio del Real. Yale University Press, August 2022. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25456-3 (h/c), $65.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254563/constructing-latin-america/. Reviewed November 2022 by Eric Wolf, Head Librarian, Sotheby’s…[Read more]

Review of Julie Manet: The Impressionist Memory by Marianne Mathieu. Yale University Press, February 2022. 324 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26409-8 (h/c), $55.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264098/julie-manet/. Reviewed November 2022 by Barbara Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse University…[Read more]

Review of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds by Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene. J. Paul Getty Museum, June 2022. 144 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-758-1 (h/c), $29.95. Reviewed November 2022 by Stephanie B. Fletcher, Head of Discovery, Metadata, and Technical Services, Illinois Institute of…[Read more]

Review of Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 380 p. Ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81581-7 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed November 2022 by Caitlin Lenox, Graduate Student, iSchool at University of Wisconsin-Madison, clenox@wisc.edu.

Review of Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The University of Chicago, February 2022. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-80206-0 (h/c), $27.50. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo116106417.html. Reviewed November 2022 by Sarah Mackowski, Acquisitions Assistant, Dumbarton Oaks.

Review of American Unitarian churches: architecture of a democratic religion by Ann Marie Borys. University of Massachusetts Press, February 2022. 192 p. Ill. ISBN 987-1-62534-603-2, $34.95. https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346032/american-unitarian-churches/. Reviewed November 2022 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research and Instruction…[Read more]

The Presidential Task Force on Art Libraries and COVID-19 was established in May 2020, with
the charge “to assess and respond to ARLIS/NA members’ need for data about the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on art information professionals by identifying and compiling existing
sources of information and conducting survey(s) of the membership to fil…[Read more]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, seven library faculty and staff investigated how virtual reality (VR) systems can be applied toward workplace productivity. Connecting through Oculus Quest headsets from our individual homes, we experimented with five VR applications to attend staff meetings, host a department retreat, engage in team building…[Read more]