WILD THINGS ARE HAPPENING: THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK. Edited by Jonathan Weinberg. Delmonico Books/The Columbus Museum of Art, 2022. 248 pages.THE FRONT AND BACK ENDPAPERS of Maurice Sendak’s perennially beloved 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are are covered in subdued bursts of foliage in yellow, blue, green, orange, and brown. The thicket of leafy plants is overlaid by a loose grid of hatch marks that have always made me think of the fine mesh of a window screen. The reader’s face looms just before the screen, with only a view of the semi-exotic jungle beyond, but it’s a view ripe for an
We invite you to a conversation between Bridget Alsdorf, Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, and Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, about their recent books: Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France (Alsdorf, 2022); The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957-1969 (Crow, 2020); and Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 (Crow, 2018). Please click Event Details to register your RSVP.
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