Book Reviews
“Wasted Beauty” By Eric Bogosian
Least known is Bogosian, the author of books. But his new novel, Wasted Beauty, is in no way the smallest of his accomplishments. A sordid account of lives gone awry, it begins with two seemingly disparate story lines: Reba and Billy are recently orphaned siblings who are forced to try to salvage their parents’... »
“John Szarkowski: Photographs”
John Szarkowski is widely known as a career maker. As director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1962 to 1991, he introduced some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. But long before he accepted that position, he was a photographer — not an amateur, but a... »
“Andres Serrano: America and Other Work”
Photographer Andres Serrano joined an ever-growing list of maligned and misunderstood artists when his notorious “Piss Christ” was singled out in 1989 by U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms as proof that the artist was “taunting the American people.” »
“Vanished Splendors: A Memoir” By Balthus
Balthus came from an intellectually privileged environment. His father was a Polish art historian, painter and critic whose close friends included Andre Gide and Pierre Bonnard. Two years after his parents separated in 1917, his mother became the lover of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. »