CAA News Today

Erin Silver discusses Jennifer L. Shaw’s Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Megan Driscoll reviews Henry Taylor: The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of My Momma Was Stolen, with contributions by Zadie Smith, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Charles Gaines, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

John Muse delves into the exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Michele Valerie Ronnick reviews Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today by Denise Murrell. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jason Nguyen writes about Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, edited by Cynthia Burlingham and Allegra Pesenti. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Elizabeth Benjamin explores Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872–1887 by Michael Marrinan. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Hazel Clark reviews Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color by Valerie Steele. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Lisa Claypool reviews Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937 by William Schaefer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katherine Shingler writes about Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book by Kathryn Brown. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Yang Wang discusses The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China by Shelley Drake Hawks. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Frances Blythe reviews Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, edited by Gary Garrels, Jon-Ove Steihaug, and Sheena Wagstaff. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katie Knowles reviews the exhibition Dior: From Paris to the World. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Deborah Ziska writes about Intentional Practice for Museums: A Guide for Maximizing Impact by Randi Korn. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katie Geha discusses Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? by Michael Rooks. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Amy Bryzgel explores Left Performance Histories: Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe, edited by Judit Bodor, Adam Czirak, Astrid Hackel, Beata Hock, Andrej Mircev, and Angelika Richter. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

 Thomas Crow reviews Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again by Donna De Salvo. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mary Thomas writes about La Raza by Colin Gunckel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Constanze Graml reviews The Art of Libation in Classical Athens by Milette Gaifman. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Katie MJ Larson writes about Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists by Martha H. Kennedy. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi explores Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, edited by David J. Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Debra Schmidt Bach discusses Chippendale’s “Director”: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Chippendale’s “Director”: A Manifesto of Furniture Design by Morrison H. Heckscher. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jonathan P. Ribner reviews Delacroix by Sébastien Allard, Côme Fabre, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Michèle Hannoosh, Mehdi Korchane, and Asher Miller. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rebekah Compton writes about Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy by James Grantham Turner. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Nancy Kellar discusses Real Fake: The Story of a Zapotec Urn, edited by Justin Jennings and Adam T. Sellen. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Carl Lounsbury writes about Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830 by Conor Lucey. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Meredith Gamer reviews Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias by Mia L. Bagneris. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Christine Giviskos reviews The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor by Freyda Spira and Peter Parshall. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Ginger Elliott Smith reviews Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, edited by Kim Conaty. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Caroline Levitt writes about A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture by Sharon Hecker. Read the full review at caa.reviews.