The summer season is nearly here, and hopefully, that means you’ll have time to catch up on your reading. In case you need some recommendations, here are 13 art books that the Art Calendar writers and editors are currently enjoying:
1. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
Who’s Reading It: Ligaya Figueras and E. Brady Robinson
Who’s Reading It: Matthew Daub
Who’s Reading It: Renée Phillips
4. The Undressed Art: Why We Draw by Peter Steinhart
Who’s Reading It: Diana Moses Botkin
5. Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Who’s Reading It: Steve Meltzer
6. Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell by Joan Stauffer
Who’s Reading It: Jack White
7. Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins
Who’s Reading It: Ligaya Figueras
8. Sister Wendy’s 1000 Masterpieces by Sister Wendy Beckett
Who’s Reading It: Annie Strack
9. The Triumph of Modernism, The Art World, 1985-2005 by Hilton Kramer
Who’s Reading It: Stephen Knudsen
10. You Can Do a Graphic Novel by Barbara Slate
Who’s Reading It: Jeffrey Lipsky
11. Art Without Compromise by Wendy Richmond
Who’s Reading It: Louise Buyo, Art Calendar Assistant Editor
12. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain
Who’s Reading It: Kim Hall, Art Calendar Editor
