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• All the Beauty in the World

  the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

  Bringley, Patrick,

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  A former New Yorker staffer spends a decade as a museum guard while coming to grips with his brother's illness.

• Get the Picture

  a Mind-bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

  Bosker, Bianca,

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  A fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey inside the secretive world of art and artists, as the author works for an artist, in a gallery and more.

• Adventures in the Louvre

  Sciolino, Elaine,

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  A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation while sharing her favorite artworks.

• The Monuments Men

  Allied Heros, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

  Edsel, Robert M,

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  At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. In a race against time, a special force of American and British museum…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chasing Beauty

  the Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Dykstra, Natalie,

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  The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America's most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art.

• Ninth Street Women

  Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

  Gabriel, Mary

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  An immersive group biography of Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell—eclectic, free-spirited painters who, with their artist husbands and partners, shocked the art world in the 1940s and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art Thief

  a True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

  Finkel, Michael,

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  Stephane Breitwieser was the most prolific art thief of all time, pulling off over 200 heists. But he never sold a piece, keeping it all in his attic bedroom until everything came to a shocking end.

• The Lost Painting

  Harr, Jonathan

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  Tells of painter Caravaggio's wild and tragic life while relating the discovery of a painting that had been missing for two hundred years.

• The Lady in Gold

  the Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

  O'Connor, Anne Marie, 1959-

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  One of Gustav Klimt’s most celebrated paintings (sold to Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million in 2006 and now in the Neue Galerie in New York City) encapsulates a fascinating, complicated cultural history of fin-de-siècle Vienna, its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Picasso's War

  How Modern Art Came to America

  Eakin, Hugh,

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  In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Keeping An Eye Open

  Essays on Art

  Barnes, Julian,

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  In these sharply observed essays, English novelist Barnes, levels his fine critical eye at the visual arts, principally focusing on French painting and the transition from romanticism to modernism.

• Seven Days in the Art World

  Thornton, Sarah

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  A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.