CAA News Today

Jenni Sorkin reviews The Shape of Craft by Ezra Shales. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

John A. Tyson writes about Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art by Ellen Y. Tani. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nicholas Miller reviews two Detroit exhibitions: Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement and Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion.  Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Diana Strazdes reviews Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art by Emma Acker. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mary Harlow writes about Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece by Mireille M. Lee. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Brian Snapp reviews Creole Clay: Heritage Ceramics in the Contemporary Caribbean by Patricia J. Fay. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Matthew Irwin discusses the exhibition Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness at 516 Arts, Albuquerque. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lacey Baradel reviews Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas edited by Catharina Manchanda. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Maria Maurer writes about The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated, edited by D. Medina Lasansky. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alta Steenkamp discusses Adjaye, Africa, Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture by David Adjaye and Peter Allison. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

S. A. (Ali) Shobeiri reviews On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry by Diarmuid Costello. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Leisa Rundquist discusses Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, edited by Franklin Sirmans and Yael Lipschutz. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Daniel Harkett reviews Artistes, savants et amateurs: Art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715–1815), edited by Jessica L. Fripp, Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Serena Keshavjee writes about Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form by Allison Morehead. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah Louise Cowan examines Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Lynne Cooke. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jeanette Favrot Peterson discusses Building Yanhuitlan: Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 by Alessia Frassani. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lauren Kroiz reviews Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

André Dombrowski writes about Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art by Laura Anne Kalba. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Eva McGraw discusses Paper Promises: Early American Photography by Mazie M. Harris. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Joseph Leo Koerner writes about The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept by Cordula Grewe. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Patricia Blessing reviews the exhibition Outcasts: Prejudice & Persecution in the Medieval World. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Adrienne L. Childs examines Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, edited by Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Helena Szépe explores The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450–1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Annabeth Headrick reviews Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire edited by Matthew H. Robb. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mahir Șaul discusses Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals by Lindiwe Dovey. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jerry Philogene examines Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Fred Rush writes about Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings by Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Shana Cooperstein reviews Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century by Omar W. Nasim. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Itay Sapir writes about Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible by Dalia Judovitz. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Andrew Turner discusses Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Archives, edited by Sarahh E. M. Shcer and Billie J. A. Follensbee. Read the full review at caa.reviews.