Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits – Fauve, Cubist,...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength" is published on the occasion of the artist's completion of "Industrial Strength Sleep", a 23-foot by 9-foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and based on hi...

Nancy Spero (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene of the 1960s and 70s, as highly regarded as famed artists Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper. With a career spanning over 50 years, Sp...

Not for sale in Estonia! At first glance, "The Puppet Show" seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses – with both humor and gravity – on the surprisingly pro...

One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he studied with Robert Henri. Following Henri to New York, Sloan joined a small circle of eight talented artists whose dissatisfaction with the dominating...

Not for sale in Estonia! Brought to you by The Ice Plant in collaboration with Shopsin's General Store, this charming, pint-sized and extremely well-designed diary, inspired by a 2006 story in The New York Times, lets you keep track of your life wi...