A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications
Earl Kemp
Exploring the subcultures of mid-20th-century America, this encyclopedia comprehensively documents the huge quantity of cult magazines that thrived beneath the mainstream. Chronicling the period...
Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers — from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford — lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The...
A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Edward Dolnick
As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's...
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Michael Gross
"Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime." With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first...
A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West
Erin Hogan
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless-steel poles, a gash in a...
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The...
