BOOK REVIEW: “Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe
On the occasion of Tom Wolfe's death, Hamptons Art Hub revives a book review written by James Croak for "Back To Blood," Wolfe's final...
Book Reviews
Book Review: Critic A.O. Scott Explores Criticism & Critical Thinking in New Book
“Don’t pay any attention to the critics, don’t even ignore ’em,” bellowed Jerry Lewis to an interviewer who suggested that...
BOOK REVIEWS: Raising, and Spending, Mega-Dollars in the Arts
Three books released by leading players paint a somewhat desperate picture of the crisis in arts leadership. This is not beach reading...
Hollander’s Philosophy Revealed in “The Good Garden”
“If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life.”
—Jarod Kintz
The landscape schemes by Edmund Hollander Design grace...
The Path to Understanding Pollock Could Go Through the Stomach
Brace yourself, honey.
We’ve been invited to dinner with Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. You remember the last time. This could...
BOOK REVIEW: Design Interventions – Authenticity vs. Nostalgia
“It features three laundry rooms!” the broker gushed. I was wandering through one of the massive Shingle Style houses that have...
BOOK REVIEW: “A Daughter’s Memoir” Takes On Peter Selz and Modern Art
“My father who sparkled like a firecracker, whom I craved, idolized, but didn’t really know.” – Gabrielle Selz in “Unstill...
BOOK REVIEW: Gimme Shelter: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
I have a weakness for large books, I don’t mean a Janson History of Art or Webster’s Third International, I mean the real bad...
BOOK REVIEW: Looking Beyond the Brain To Find The Mind
“The great problem confronting neuroscience is how the brain becomes the mind. How that three-pound knitting ball makes you feel...
BOOK REVIEW: Rethinking Curating – Art After the New Media
Hegel noted in his Ästhetik that “art had worked itself out” and was being displaced by rational inquiry, a continent drift from...
BOOK REVIEW: Sunburn – “Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe
“SPEAK ENGLISH YOU PATHETIC IDIOT” screamed the last WASP in Miami in a losing fight to slot her planet–saving “Green Elf”...
BOOK REVIEW: Spank Him! – “Bad Boy” by Eric Fischl
The improbable literary hit of the summer is “Bad Boy,” a book written jointly by artist Eric Fischl and journalist Michael Stone....
BOOK REVIEW: Steve Martin, the Novelist
The 1136 History of Kings of Britain mixed fact and fantasy in such a delightful way that it fooled historians for centuries, Geoffrey...