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Our Writers Pick 20 Books About Art and the Art World to Keep You Reading Well Into the New Year
One of the best parts of a holiday vacation is finally getting to curl up with a good book (perhaps that one that’s been waiting patiently on your nightstand for months!). Below, we’ve selected 20 novels, memoirs, biographies and other books all themed around art or the art world. Happy reading! 1. Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and his Art by Daniel Oppenheimer (2021) From From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Daniel Oppenheimer. Courtesy University of Texas Press. The late art critic and iconoclast Dave Hickey rose to fame with his cult classic book from 1993 The Invisible Dragon. “Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good…
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Entertainment News Roundup: ‘Licorice Pizza’ turns on the charm in quirky coming-of-age tale; ‘Spider-Man’ box office numbers climb in record books and more

 Pursuing is a summary of latest entertainment news briefs. 
 ‘Licorice Pizza’ turns on the appeal in quirky coming-of-age tale 
 There is no pizza and no licorice in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest motion picture, but like a ton of the quirky figures and functions in his coming-of-age tale established in 1970s suburban Los Angeles, one thing about the title appeared suitable. “Licorice Pizza is actually a actually renowned San Fernando Valley report store that was quite popular in the ’70s,” claimed Alana Haim, the musician who will make her display screen debut as the witty but prickly youthful female at the coronary heart of the story. The…
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Pandemic park life and a secret knitting cult: the best photography books of 2021 | Photography
The photography book that I returned to more than any other this year was Encampment Wyoming by Lora Webb Nichols, an extraordinary record of life in a US frontier community in the early 20th century. Comprised of photographs by Nichols and other local amateur photographers, it emanates a powerful sense of place. Domestic interiors and still lifes punctuate the portraits, which range from the spectral – a blurred and ghostly adult plaiting the hair of a young girl – to the stylish – a dapper, besuited woman peering through a window. An intimate, quietly compelling portrait of a time, a place and a nascent community. Lizzie Nichols at Willow Glen…
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