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crystal am nelson writes about William Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose by Jane Taylor. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kate Dimitrova reviews Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art by Heidi C. Gearhart. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Michelle Millar Fisher writes about SmartHistory.org. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Todd Cronan writes about Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Early Modern Art by Heinrich Wölfflin. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Monique Kerman reviews Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art by Leon Wainwright. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Yulia Karpova discusses Gruzinskii avangard: 1900–1930 by Iveta Manasherova and Elena Kamenskaya, and the exhibition The Georgian Avant-garde: 1900–1930s: Pirosmani, Gudiashvili, Kakabadze, and Other Artists at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Christian K. Kleinbub explores Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy by Robert Williams. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Adam R. Stead reviews The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200–1400 by Jacqueline Jung. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jared Sexton writes about Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Daniel Marcus reviews Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris by Ara H. Merjian. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Haley Coopersmith discusses Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight by Dana Miller. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Erina Duganna writes about Gather Out of Star-Dust: A Harlem Renaissance Album by Melissa Barton. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Emma Chubb explores Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat. by Orianna Cacchione, Li Pi, Robyn Farrell, and Katherine Grube. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Paul H. D. Kaplan looks at The Black Figure in the European Imaginary edited by Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Wendy Ann Parker writes about William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in Letters and Lines edited by Tamar Garb and Fiona Bradley, and William Kentridge edited by Rosalind E. Krauss. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alex J. Bacon reviews Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art by Anna Dezeuze. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Anna Arabindan-Kesson discusses Kerry James Marshall: Look See by Robert Storr. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Afua Ferdnance examines Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch edited by Pellom McDaniels III. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jo-Ann Morgan looks at Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Cristóbal Jácome-Moreno reviews Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange edited by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Melissa L. Mednicov explores Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma edited by Michelle White. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katherine Cohn writes about EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean edited by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Stephen Petersen discusses Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light by Keely Orgeman. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mark Alan Hewitt examines Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Augustus Durham reviews Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction by andré m. carrington. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Heidi Gearhart writes about L’imitation de l’Antiquité dans l’art medieval (1180–1230) by Laurence Terrier Aliferis. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

A.L. McMichael explores Photogrammar: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/, a digital platform produced by Yale University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Laura Lisbon examines Agnes Martin: Night Sea by Suzanne P. Hudson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Seeta Chaganti looks at Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204 by Cynthia Hahn. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Colleen O’Reilly writes about the exhibition Kul’ttovary: Bringing Culture into the Soviet Home at the William Johnston Building Gallery at Florida State University. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Bridget R. Cooks reviews Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs by Mickalene Thomas. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Barbara Reisinger discusses Art about AIDS: Nan Goldin’s Exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing by Sophie Junge. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Caroline Hillard explores Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power by Alison Cole. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Suzanne Singletary reviews Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture by William Curtis. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kealey Boyd writes about Once Upon a Time . . . : The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais and Thomas Brent Smith. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Elizabeth Legge explores Prehistoric Future: Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars by Ralph Ubl. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sara Blaylock reviews Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 by Amy Bryzgel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Randall Griffey discusses Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War by David M. Lubin. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Wayne Franits examines Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting by Angela Ho. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ronnie Self looks at the work of Michael Maltzan Architecture on the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Mati Meyer reviews Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alya Karame writes about The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts edited by Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Stephanie A. Glaser examines Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730–1840 by Peter N. Lindfield. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lisa Strong writes about Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience by Neil Harris. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rebecca Zorach explores South Africa: The Art of a Nation edited by John Giblin and Chris Spring. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ellen Prokop reviews August L. Mayer y la pintura española: Ribera, Goya, El Greco, Velázquez by Teresa Posada Kubissa. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Preeti Chopra discusses Architecture and Empire in Jamaica by Louis P. Nelson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Beate Pittnauer looks at Zeitspeicher der Fotografie: Zukunftsbilder, 1860–1913 by Katja Müller-Helle. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Chris Collier examines The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life edited by Sharon Louden. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sadé Ayorinde reviews No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity edited by Angela Rosenthal, David Bindman, and Adrian W. B. Randolph. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jonathan Walley writes about The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame by Eyal Peretz. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rose Marie San Juan discusses The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England: Little Gidding and the Pursuit of Scriptural Harmony by Michael Gaudio. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Helena Vilalta explores 1971: A Year in the Life of Color by Darby English. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kevin Lotery reviews Buon Fresco by Tacita Dean. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah Schaefer examines No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art by Thomas Crow. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rikki Byrd writes about Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style by Shantrelle P. Lewis. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sybil E. Gohari explores Matisse/Diebenkorn edited by Janet Bishop and Katherine Rothkopf. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Caitlin Beach looks at Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica by Charmaine A. Nelson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Charles Snyder writes about Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock by Gregory Battcock, edited by Joseph Grigely. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Tricia Y. Paik discusses Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture, Volume One, 1940–1953 by Yve-Alain Bois. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Cynthia Colburn reviews Art of Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Elizabeth Childs examines Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade by Simon Kelly and Esther Bell. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Natilee Harren explores South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rachel Boate writes about the exhibition Matisse and American Art at the Montclair Art Museum. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nadja Rottner discusses the exhibition The Transported Man at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Annie Paul considers From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism by Edward J. Sullivan. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Dorota Biczel reviews Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen by Andrea Andersson, Lucy Lippard, Macarena Gómez-Barris, and Julia Bryan-Wilson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Erin Hyde Nolan writes about Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East by Ali Behdad. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Amanda Douberley writes about Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971 by James Meyer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Laura Cleaver discusses Art of Documentation: Documents and Visual Culture in Medieval England by Jessica Berenbeim. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Julia Peters reviews Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century by Catriona MacLeod. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Karin Zitzewitz examines Visions from India by The Pizzuti Collection and Greer Pagano. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alessandra Raengo looks at the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lauren Rosenblum discusses the exhibition Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip at the Menil Collection. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Susan Danly reviews Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern by Wanda M. Corn. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Tanja Klemm explores Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sandra Zalman writes about the exhibition Sol LeWitt: Glossy and Flat Black Squares at Rice University Art Gallery. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Anya Pantuyeva examines Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place by Rebecca R. Hart. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Charlie F. B. Miller analyzes Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art by Sebastian Zeidler. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Harper Montgomery writes about the exhibition Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Phoebe Wolfskill reviews African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History by Lisa Farrington. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mark Hinchman explores The Politics of Furniture: Identity, Diplomacy and Persuasion in Post-War Interiors edited by Fredie Floré and Cammie McAtee. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ariel Osterweis looks at The Off-Staging of William Forsythe’s Dance in the Museum. Read the full review at caa.reviews.