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Tania Tribe discusses El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics edited by Clémentine Deliss and Yvette Mutumba. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Will Rea reviews African Masters: Art from the Ivory Coast edited by Eberhard Fischer and Lorenz Homberger. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Andrea Korda examines Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Catherine Roach. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Robert Williams discusses Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action by Julian Brooks. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Julia K. Murray discusses Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) by Elizabeth Kindall. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kara Fiedorek reviews In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 by Anne Nishimura Morse and Anne E. Havinga. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Adrian Anagnost writes about Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s by Abigail McEwen and Susanna Temkin. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

David G. Wilkins discusses The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Carol Troyen writes on The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting by René Brimo. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah J. Scott discusses Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

William Truettner reviews A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians by Sascha T. Scott. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kathryn Simpson writes on The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris by Mary Hunter. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Fred S. Kleiner discusses Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis Near Pompeii edited by Elaine K. Gazda and John R. Clarke. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jennifer P. Kingsley writes about A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe edited by Martina Bagnoli. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Elena Phipps discusses The Andean Science of Weaving: Structures and Techniques for Warp-Faced Weaves by Denise Y. Arnold and Elvira Espejo. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Courtney Pedersen reviews the Cindy Sherman exhibition at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mechtild Widrich writes about Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography by Susan Best. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nathan Arrington and Carolyn Yerkes discuss The Plaster Cast Gallery at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Gillian Elliot reviews Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe: Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context edited by Gerardo Boto Varela and Justin E. A. Kroesen. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Alison Syme writes on John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion by Bruce Redford. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

David Pullins reviews Les Jombert: Une famille de libraires parisiens dans l’Europe des Lumières (1680–1824) by Greta Kaucher. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Philip Kelleher writes about the exhibition Francis Alÿs: The Fabiola Project. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Aaron Slodounik discusses The Deaths of Henri Regnault by Marc Gotlieb. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Hanneke Grootenboer reviews Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking by Ernst van de Wetering. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Katie Hornstein discusses Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790–1830 by Sue Ann Price. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

K.L.H. Wells reviews Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community by Jenni Sorkin. Read the full review at caa.reviews .

Christina Fail writes about Activating Democracy: The “I Wish to Say” Project edited by Sheryl Oring. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kate Warren writes on TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Monica Bravo takes a look at Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 edited by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, and Renato González Mello. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Joseph Hammond reviews Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism by Tom Nichols. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Akela Reason writes on Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950 by Sarah Kate Gillespie, Janice Simon, Meredith E. Ward, and Kimberly Orcutt. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kathleen Chapman reviews Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Inspiration and Transformation edited by John B. Ravenal. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jane Chin Davidson discusses Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience edited by Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy C. Rowe and Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies edited by Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jessen Kelly discusses Jan Gossart and Invention of Nederlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jordan A. Fenton reviews The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo by Cécile Fromont. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Vivek Gupta writes on Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India by Heidi Pauwels. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jane Tynan writes about The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katherine Doniak discusses Terry Fox edited by Arnold Dreyblatt and Angela Lammert. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Allison Leigh reviews The Russian Canvas by Rosalind P. Blakesly. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

SooJin Lee writes about Yayoi Kusama by Midori Yamamura. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Christina Neilson discusses Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” by Amy Bloch. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah Gordon reviews Nature’s Truth by Anne Helmreich. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nancy Scott on The Civil War in Art and Memory edited by Kirk Savage can be found in full at caa.reviews.

Judah Cohen writes about Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean, an exhibition at the Wyatt Gallery. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Audrey Goodman discusses Enchanting the Desert by Nicholas Bauch. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah Cohen reviews The Cry of Nature by Stephen Eisenman. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Diana Kleiner writes about The Genesis of Roman Architecture by John North Hopkins. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mark Rosen discusses Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence by Lia Markey. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Stephanie Porras reviews Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale by Elizabeth Alice Honig. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Luis E. Carranza discusses Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, on view at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 6–September 18, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Billie Follensbee reads La Ofrenda 4 de La Venta by Diana Magaloni Kerpel and Laura Filloy Nadal. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lelia Packer visits Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition, on view at Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 31–September 25, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Laura J. Whatley reviews Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscripts of the Bohum Family by Lucy Freeman Sandler. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Anne Mahady-Kneller discusses Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist edited by Richard J. Powell. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Zeynep Kezer reviews Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire by Ahmet A. Ersoy. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ellen Shortell reads Villard de Honnecourt: Architecte du XIIIe siècle by Jean Wirth. Read the full review at caa.reviews.