Feline 2026 Mini Wall Calendar
Brighten up your space with vibrant cat paintings in this miniature wall calendar. This decorative yet functional wall calendar features 13 watercolor cat paintings that capture the playful and quirky personalities of our feline friends. Perfectly sized to fit in any small space, it will add a touch of charm to your home or office. Features include: 7" x 7" (7" x 14" open)--a great size for small spaces Cover design eliminates need for plastic packaging Printed on FSC(R) certified paper with soy-based ink Planning spread for September-December 2025 Spans January-December 2026 Grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time 13 playful cat paintings
In the Hands of Devotees
An exploration of how Indigenous and Black communities shaped religious imagery and navigated life in colonial Lima. Colonial Lima was steeped in Christian devotional imagery. While Spaniards set the norms for these works, it was the city's Black and Indigenous majority that engaged with them most. As members of lay societies of worshippers called confraternities, subalterns were Lima's key promoters of religious art, surpassing the colonial hierarchy. Ximena G籀mez argues that, by commissioning and exhibiting sacred images--in chapels and urban processions, adorned with clothing and accessories--Indigenous and Black confraternities created Lima's visual culture. In one case study, the Indigenous confraternity of the Virgin of Copacabana "invisibly" transforms a sculpture into an object that reflected its multiethnic Andean caretakers. Another case study, that of the confraternity of the Virgin of the Antigua, finds Black worshippers initially united in their interpretation of a Spanish image and later fracturing when some of its members applied a West African interpretive lens. Taking advantage of Lima's rich documentary record, In the Hands of Devotees centers the ritual practices of Black and Indigenous people and opens possibilities for incorporating subalterns into the history of Lima's art when limited extant visual evidence has survived.
Climate Action in the Art World
Annabel Keenan's timely and urgent book reviews the work that has been undertaken to date to create a more sustainable art world and proposes the next steps in system-wide change. It identifies the main sustainability issues for the art industry, arguing that artists and art activists have led the way in creating awareness of climate change, and evaluates progress to date on climate-action commitments by the various sectors of the art world, offering examples of best practice.Uncompromising in its messages, Climate Action in the Art World is essential reading for all art professionals, from artists to curators to art handlers, as well as for anyone seeking an accessible entry-point to a topic which is unfortunately only getting (literally) hotter.
Heard in Art
Ekphrastic poems broaden and deepen our understanding of their subjects; only the best ones, however, match their visual eloquence. In Hoyt Rogers's marvelous new volume, Heard in Art, time and again, whether addressing works from Titian or Vermeer, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, or Claesz, sublimely, with wild erudition, they do.
It's Too Late. Do It Anyway!
Hey culture worker! Are you feeling alone and afraid while the world burns? It's Too Late. Do It Anyway! is two books in one, created for cultural workers who want to get off the racial capitalist high-speed-train-to-nowhere and start structuring revolution through collective care.It's Too Late. Do It Anyway! offers two routes into a fractal support network designed to shed absurd, useless forms of artworld prestige in favor of collectively producing a world organized to support caregivers. It's Too Late tells the true story of an exhibition about care that exposed the difference between making symbolic gestures and actually doing something. Do It Anyway! serves as a manual for The Hologram, a prism-shaped collective care protocol conceptualized by artist Cassie Thornton, inspired by the Social Solidarity Clinic of Thessaloniki in Greece, and now practiced by people all over the world.In It's Too Late. Do It Anyway! multiple voices weave The Hologram into the present, the past, and the future all at once, ultimately putting the story and the tools it describes into each reader's life-wizened hands. This is not really a book; it's a pathway out of the tough spot we are all in right now. Anyone can make use of it, even you.
Maud Stevens Wagner
Maud Stevens Wagner, the "Mona Lisa of American tattoo," was an ardent individualist who left home at a young age to pursue a career as a carnival performer, a contortionist, a tattoo model, and an aerialist. She was a thoroughly modern woman who asserted her independence and her own identity. Maud and her husband, Gus (known as the "most artistically marked-up man in America"), traveled the country as the Wagner's Traveling Museum, exhibiting themselves and making tattoos around the US. This book is the second in the series Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists, detailing the lives of Gus, Maud, and their daughter, Lotteva. Author Alan Govenar brings you Maud's story with - Lotteva Wagner's oral history, - clippings and photographs from Gus Wagner's scrapbooks, - the Wagners' tattoo flash, and - newspaper articles and obituaries. As the author said, "In one sense, Gus and Maud challenged all expectations, but in another, they embodied and celebrated the can-do spirit intrinsic to American life."
Kaj - A Collection
Kaj Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark in 1932. He was a remarkable figure who excelled both as a footballer and a celebrated artist. His early professional years were marked by a passion for both sports and the arts, leading him to pursue a dual career. On the football field, Kaj was known for his skilful play and leadership, as team captain for 'B1913 Odense', earning him a place in Denmark's national team during 1963. Unfortunately whilst visiting Hungary for a game, Kaj contracted Tuberculosis and spent 9 months in hospital after which he was no longer able to play at the international level. Off the field, his artistic prowess shone through his vibrant paintings, characterised by bold strokes and vivid colours in layered oil abstract pieces amongst others. Over his lifetime, Kaj Andersen created and sold many hundreds of pieces of work before his sudden death whilst playing football for the old boys in 1995 at the age of just 62.--Kaj Andersen blev f繪dt i Odense, Danmark i 1932. Han var en bem疆rkelsesv疆rdig skikkelse, der udm疆rkede sig b疇de som fodboldspiller og kunstner. Hans tidlige professionelle 疇r, var pr疆get af en passion for b疇de sport og kunst, hvilket f繪rte ham til at forf繪lge en dobbelt karriere. P疇 fodboldbanen var Kaj kendt for sit dygtige spil og hans lederskab, som holdkaptajn for 'B1913 Odense', hvilket gav ham en plads p疇 Danmarks landshold i l繪bet af 1963. Desv疆rre, mens han bes繪gte Ungarn for at spille kamp, ​​fik Kaj tuberkulose og han tilbragte 9 m疇neder p疇 hospitalet, hvorefter han ikke l疆ngere var i stand til at spille p疇 internationalt niveau. Uden for banen, skinnede hans kunstneriske dygtighed igennem i hans livlige malerier. Kendetegnet ved blandt andet dristige streger og levende farver, i de flere lag olie abstrakte malerier. I l繪bet af sin levetid skabte og solgte Kaj Andersen mange hundrede v疆rker, inden sin pludselige d繪d, mens han spillede fodbold for "the oldboys" i 1995 i en alder af kun 62 疇r.
Slavonic & East European Review (103.2) 2025
The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. An international, peer-reviewed quarterly, it publishes scholarly articles on all subjects related to Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as reviews of new books in the field.
The Rise of Arab Art
An illustrated reader-cum-anthology of the SWANA region's burgeoning art scene, including the hottest rising stars, new museums and the buzziest fairsSince the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth, reflecting not only a rise in artistic production but also a shift in cultural infrastructure and public engagement. The Rise of Arab Art is an ideal primer for anyone interested in the foundations and structures of this phenomenon.
Woodland Wardens 2026 Mini Wall Calendar
Based on the bestselling Woodland Wardens oracle card deck, this mini wall calendar is for spiritual seekers attuned to the magical communications of nature. The monthly calendar showcases twelve gorgeously illustrated animal-plant pairs from beloved artist/author Jessica Roux along with her reflections on their symbolic significance as divined from folklore, mythology, and literature. Features include: 7" x 7" (7" x 14" open)--a great size for small spaces Cover design eliminates need for plastic packaging Printed on FSC(R) certified paper with soy-based ink Spans January-December 2026 Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Perfect gift for nature and animal lovers From the bestselling author/illustrator of Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers Wall art perfectly sized for lockers, cubicles, bulletin boards, and other cozy spots WE PLANT TREES to offset our carbon footprint and resource usage -- more than ONE MILLION and growing! NO SINGLE-USE PLASTIC -- We have eliminated single-use shrink wrap to reduce plastic pollution. RESPONSIBLY SOURCED -- Our paper is responsibly sourced from a combination of recycled materials and wood harvested from socially and environmentally sustainable forests and is FSC(R) certified.
New York in Art 12-Month 2026 Engagement Calendar
This spiral-bound weekly desk diary is filled with evocative photographs and paintings of New York City from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City and all its splendor is showcased in this weekly engagement calendar featuring 56 works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists who lived and worked in Gotham, including Jacob Lawrence, Florine Stettheimer, John Marin, and Edward Hopper. From the tip of Liberty's torch to the top of the Empire State Building, from the crowds at Coney Island to the lawns of Central Park, every week offers a new sight to enjoy as you keep track of appointments and occasions. Features include: Cover painting by Samuel Halpert (American, 1884-1930) 7" x 9" (14" x 9" open) Spiral-bound paperback Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink Plastic-free packaging Packaged in a sturdy, full-color gift box Spans 12 months from January-December 2026 Sunday-Saturday weeks Pages alternate between glossy for images and matte for calendar pages for ease of writing Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Year-at-a-glance pages for 2026 and 2027 Extra lined pages at back for notes An identifying caption and a brief descriptive historical text accompany each work of art
Translation of Vitruvius and Copies of Late Antique Drawings in Buonaccorso Ghiberti's Zibalone
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures
Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures examines the infrastructural qualities of museum work that influence the ability of cultural institutions to support participatory and socially inclusive missions.Drawing on data gathered in Scotland, Sweden, and Germany and taking an infrastructure studies approach, the book focuses on the socio-technical negotiations underpinning the everyday practices of museum staff. The book examines the work that is done behind the scenes, including the everyday tasks of collecting, archiving, displaying museum objects and retrieving information. Tran argues that while the technical components of infrastructure are necessary for memory-making and knowledge production, it is the social part of museum infrastructure that enables more open and decentralised modes of memory-making. The book shows how these negotiations affect the ability of museum infrastructures to accommodate and support growth and development, expanding access and establishing modes of connection to external partners and services. It illuminates the less visible practices of museums, which nevertheless directly affect their more public, outward-facing activities.Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures will be of interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of museums and heritage. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public participation, social inclusion, heritage management, the digitisation of collections, data aggregation, and human-centred design approaches.
Sculpture of Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Their Workshop
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
Abstract Art 2026 17 X 12 Small Monthly Deskpad
Infuse your workspace with creativity using this deskpad calendar, featuring vibrant abstract art and ample space for schedules, notes, and tasks. Perfect for jotting down important dates and notes, this deskpad is a versatile addition to your workspace.
Urban Chic 2026 17 X 12 Small Monthly Deskpad
Add a touch of modern sophistication to your workspace with this deskpad calendar, featuring a sleek urban chic design and ample space for your schedules, notes, and to-dos. Perfect for jotting down important dates and notes, this deskpad is a versatile addition to your workspace.
Botanical Garden 2026 17 X 12 Small Monthly Deskpad
Bring the beauty of nature to your workspace with this deskpad calendar, featuring elegant botanical illustrations and ample space for schedules, notes, and to-dos. Perfect for jotting down important dates and notes, this deskpad is a versatile addition to your workspace.
Basic 2026 17 X 12 Small Monthly Deskpad
EFFORTLESS ORGANIZATION - Stay organized with this practical deskpad calendar featuring a clean, minimalist design. Perfect for jotting down important dates and notes, this deskpad is a versatile addition to your workspace.
Marc Quinn
This striking exhibition book features photography that showcases Marc Quinn's new and existing sculptures, paintings, drawings, and evocative frozen works. Light into Life encompasses monumental sculptures in the Kew landscape alongside a gallery exhibition that examines our complex and often challenging relationship with the natural world. It includes newly conceived artworks inspired by Kew's archives, scientific research, and horticulture. These are accompanied by a selection of existing pieces, many of which explore the idea of nature as a fundamental part of humanity, a prominent focus of Marc Quinn's practice since the 1990s. Together, the works explore our common biological origins and reflect on humanity's capacity to both preserve and destroy nature. Quinn's reflective artworks are well-presented in the exhibition book's gloss paperback format, with stunning imagery seamlessly spanning multiple pages, alongside an essay by Francesca Gavin and contributions by Prof. William J. Baker and Dr. Melanie-Jayne Howes. The saddle stitch binding allows the book to lay flat, showcasing this spectacular body of work.
Collecting the "Other Americas"
The term "Pre-Columbian art" once described the material culture produced in the Americas, mostly south of the US-Mexico border, prior to the arrival of Europeans. Museums across the United States now refer to these departments as "the Americas" or "the ancient Americas." A few individuals and museums began collecting in this area already in the late nineteenth century, but many others did not embark on it until well into the twentieth. A range of figures brought these collections into being: A handful of dedicated curators, pioneering directors, and passionate collectors and patrons engaged dealers, archaeologists, scholars, and governments to amass artworks and present them to students and the public alike. During this time, many art museums insisted on displaying these materials not as ethnographic or anthropological objects but as finely crafted works of aesthetic value--as art. During the latter half of the twentieth century, more concern arose over acquisition methods and standards as well as the ethics of collecting objects of cultural heritage and import. Stewards of these collections in American art museums have begun to confront the changing meanings and import of what Nelson Rockefeller once described as the "Other Americas." This symposium volume captures the history of collecting and display of ancient American works in art museums, a history surprisingly poorly documented until now, and their significance for communities today. With additional contributions by: Susan E. Bergh, former Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Kristopher Driggers, Associate Curator of Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art Rex Koontz, Moores Professor of Art History, University of Houston, and Consulting Curator of the Art of the Indigenous Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Mary E. Miller, Director of the Getty Research Institute Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Elizabeth Irene Pope, Senior Research Associate with the Arts of the Americas and Textiles departments at the Art Institute of Chicago Matthew H. Robb, Mesoamerican specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Nancy B. Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator and Chair of the Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum
John Young
History as unfinished business--a definitive guide for an artist's recent practiceBetween 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created eleven art series that he called "The History Projects." This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an "ethical responsibility" toward the past. Featuring more than four hundred images and a wide variety of texts--including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist's reflections, and diary pages--this book is a definitive reference for Young's transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
The Adventures of Merlin the Pit Bull Wizard
Your entire family will fall in love with the big-hearted, goofy, gentle red-nosed pit bull who has the most beautiful green eyes and whose tail is like a wand with magical powers. When Merlin goes into a playful bow, then raises his tail over the top of his head, a green laser light that matches the color of his eyes shines out from the tip of his tail, and that's when something magical is going to happen. Merlin also has the ability to understand what humans say, which tends to get him into trouble at times. Merlin has two best friends, Miracle and Rocky, both rottweilers who live with him at the ranch, and they do everything together. Merlin uses his powers to help a rottweiler in trouble at a shelter, who turns out to be Miracle, and saves the life of a newborn calf, which are a few of the adventures Merlin has. There are many mysterious things that happen out on the ranch that Merlin has to face along with his two best friends. Merlin also has a very close relationship with the guardian and feels he needs to protect her as well. Merlin has other friends that show up from time to time, a husky named Kiya, who is Merlin's wizard elder and provides him guidance, and a big barn Owl that keeps showing up. Merlin's magical tail will also help defend against the dangers that meet up with him, as well as the dangers that lie ahead. He will not have to fight these alone, however; the guardian and his friends will be right there beside him. So join Merlin as he goes on some
Criticisms on Art, With Catalogues of the Principal Picture Galleries of England. Edited by His Son. 2d Series
The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, Satins, &c. in Oil Colours
The Adventures of Merlin the Pit Bull Wizard
Your entire family will fall in love with the big-hearted, goofy, gentle red-nosed pit bull who has the most beautiful green eyes and whose tail is like a wand with magical powers. When Merlin goes into a playful bow, then raises his tail over the top of his head, a green laser light that matches the color of his eyes shines out from the tip of his tail, and that's when something magical is going to happen. Merlin also has the ability to understand what humans say, which tends to get him into trouble at times. Merlin has two best friends, Miracle and Rocky, both rottweilers who live with him at the ranch, and they do everything together. Merlin uses his powers to help a rottweiler in trouble at a shelter, who turns out to be Miracle, and saves the life of a newborn calf, which are a few of the adventures Merlin has. There are many mysterious things that happen out on the ranch that Merlin has to face along with his two best friends. Merlin also has a very close relationship with the guardian and feels he needs to protect her as well. Merlin has other friends that show up from time to time, a husky named Kiya, who is Merlin's wizard elder and provides him guidance, and a big barn Owl that keeps showing up. Merlin's magical tail will also help defend against the dangers that meet up with him, as well as the dangers that lie ahead. He will not have to fight these alone, however; the guardian and his friends will be right there beside him. So join Merlin as he goes on some
Passive Tranquillity
This is a print on demand publication. Born in 1698, Della Valle came to Rome in 1725 upon the death of his master, Giovanni Foggini. There he remained until his death in 1768. The phrase "passive tranquillity" refers both to the style of Della Valle's sculpture & the ambiance of 18th-cent. Rome, &, further, serves to distinguish Della Valle from his better known precursors, Gianlorenzo Bernini & Michelangelo. Theirs was a sculpture of the heroic & expressive. Della Valle's sculpture represents figures of an introverted, serene type. In its demonstrations of the ways in which Della Valle's art could have been formed by the institutions & cultural currents of 18th-cent. Rome, the text seeks to account for that sense of quiescence & composure common to the arts of settecento Rome. Illustrations.
Reading Mediated Life Narratives
Calling attention to the unseen mediation and re-mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this ground-breaking exploration uncovers the ever-changing strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in these texts. Concentrating on contemporary life texts found in the material book, museums, on social media and archives that present perceptions of individuality and autonomy, Reading Mediated Life Narratives exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives. Amy Carlson asks such questions as what agents act upon these narratives; what do the text, the creator, and the audience gain, and what do they lose; how do constantly evolving technologies shape or stymie the auto/biographical "I"; and finally, how do the mediations affect larger issues of social and collective memory? An examination of the range of sites at which vulnerability and intervention can occur, Carlson does not condemn but stages an intercession, showing us how it is increasingly necessary to register mediated agents and processes modifying the witnessing or recuperation of original texts that could condition our reception. With careful thought on how we remember, how we create and control our pictures, voices, words, and records, Reading Mediated Life Narratives reveals how we construct and negotiate our social identities and memories, but also what systems control us.
