CAA News Today

Delia Cosentino reviews The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Lori Boornazian Diel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Natalie Dupêcher discusses Susan Laxton’s Surrealism at Play. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Jessi DiTillio writes about the exhibition catalog Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, edited by Raphaela Platow and Lowery Stokes Sims. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Joyce S. Cheng discusses The Forces of Form in German Modernism by Malika Maskarinec. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nikolaus Dietrich reviews The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., edited by J. Michael Padgett. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Max Koss writes about Jenny Anger’s Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Emily Joyce Evans reviews the C/O Berlin exhibition Boris Mikhailov: Before Sleep/After Drinking. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lyle Massey considers The “Fabrica” of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions by Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, and Stephen N. Joffe. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Marcus B. Burke discusses Felipe Pereda’s Crime and Illusion: The Art of Truth in the Spanish Golden Age. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

 Angela Andersen discusses Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity, edited by Kıvanç Kılınç and Mohammad Gharipour. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kiara M. Vigil reviews Emily Burns’s Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jillian Hernandez discusses the show Per(sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana, from the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank reviews the exhibition Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain at San Diego Museum of Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Adrienne Rooney covers the Menil Collection’s Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Liza Oliver reviews the British Museum exhibition Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Catherine H. Lusheck considers the show Early Rubens, currently on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rebecca L. Twist writes about Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Actor Prints at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Amy Knight Powell discusses Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image by Christopher P. Heuer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Luke A. Fidler reviews the exhibition and catalog Jonathas de Andrade: One to One. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ian Verstegen discusses Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words, edited by Peter Mack and Robert Williams. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Aaron Wile writes about Enchanted Islands: Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France by Mary D. Sheriff. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Peter Scott Brown reviews Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy by Christopher R. Lakey. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ariel Evans discusses Margo Natalie Crawford’s volume Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Emma Merkling reviews Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Tracy E. Cooper writes about Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, an exhibition that showed in Venice and Washington, DC. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Laura E. Parodi discusses From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire by Chanchal B. Dadlani. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kathleen Christian reviews the compilation A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Claudia Swan writes about Netherlandish Art in Its Global Context, edited by Thijs Weststeijn, Eric Jorink, and Frits Scholten, and the exhibition and catalog Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Martha Scott Burton discusses three exhibitions that showed concurrently at McNay Art Museum, San Antonio: Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, Andy Warhol: Portraits, and TransSanAntonian: Examining Trans Identities and Gender Fluidity in the Archives. Read the full review at caa.reviews.