by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim (1998)
Selected papers from a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1990 in conjunction with the exhibition entitled "African reflections; art from north-eastern Zaire". Selected papers del specifically with late 19th and early 20th century collecting.
Martha Cooper, Joseph Sciorra
*R.I.P.* —assembling the very best of a vibrant street art wave— contains colour photographs of memorials from Harlem and the Lower East Side, the South Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as the moving stories behind them.
Dimitri Bogazianos
"In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the equivalent of a few sugar packets--had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on various sources to examine the profound consequences of America's reliance on this punishment structure, tracing the rich cultural linkages between America's War on Drugs, and the creative contributions of those directly affected by its destructive effects. Focusing primarily on lyrics that emerged in 1990s New York rap, which critiqued the music industry for being corrupt, unjust, and criminal, Bogazianos shows how many rappers began drawing parallels between the "rap game" and the "crack game." He argues that the symbolism of crack in rap's stance towards its own commercialization represents a moral debate that is far bigger than hip hop culture, highlighting the degree to which crack cocaine--although a drug long in decline--has come to represent the entire paradoxical predicament of punishment in the U.S. today."--
Katharine Weber
The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
Barbara Paul
Discusses Hugo von Tschudi's career as director of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin and of the Bayerische Stadtgemäldesammlungen in Munich, focussing particularly on Tschudi's influence in the collecting of new/contemporary French painting for German museums ; also discusses public and critical reaction to his initiatives.