Book Reports

A chronicle of storied design gallery R & Company, these TriBeCa tastemakers are responsible for elevating Brazilian design, midcentury madness, and over-the-top “difficult design.”

Auguste Rodin is one of the most well-known sculptors of the modern age. The Thinker and The Kiss have long influenced contemporary works. This book explores how Rodin was influenced by the ancient world.

Known for his luxuriant paintings of ice cream and pies, Wayne Thiebaud helped organize this compendium of his works on paper, and it includes an extensive interview with the artist.

Writer and filmmaker Thomas Halaczinsky routes his sailboat through the more than seventy islands between New York Harbor and the Fisher Island Sound, and the resulting photographs are stunning.

This children’s book is all about the world of color, where clouds are not always white, roses are not always red, and, of course, bananas are not always yellow. A charming way to introduce kids to color.

This book about color is entirely in black and white, relying on readers to explore their surroundings and find colors through the brilliant die cuts on every page.

An extensive collection, from the straightforward wares of the Arts and Crafts movement to complicated postmodern seating, this is the ultimate coffee-table book—about chairs.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery in London, this shows us more than forty works by artists who chose Michael Jackson as their subject.

Mainstays such as Marina Abramović and Laurie Simmons are highlighted along with the oft  overlooked champions of performance art since the turn of the twentieth century.

Now the home of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Palazzo Venier once lay unfinished and in decay. The story of this Venice manse weaves through the lives of three moneyed art-world eccentrics.

Not only for the Renaissance or the classical world, spirituality is still a vital part of artistic expression. An updated take on religious themes in art, this is a book for believers and non-believers alike.

The English sky has long been ruminated upon in poems, prose, and paintings. Landscape painter John Constable once called the sky the “chief organ of sentiment.” This compact guide explores his work.