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Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a comparison of family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons (“Agnew’s) and London’s National Gallery.
For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the sixteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others.
The great painting and sculpture of the past is the indispensable backbone of most people's visual library, but wrangling centuries of wonderful works by thousands of artists into a digestible form that allows you to focus on their detail and direction can be tough. Enter 30-Second Great Art. It takes readers on an engrossing tour of 50 top-flight works by artists from Giotto to Marlene Dumas, including a full-page reproduction of each one, accompanied by text that puts it in the context of the world in which it was created, and adds another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of the history of art. Along the way, special spreads will offer insights into the collectors and critics of the past, as well as its creators, and a glossary for each chapter will explain specialist terms. Succinct, lively descriptions make for speedy and enjoyable reading; it's like taking a trip round the world's greatest art gallery.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.
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FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBT+ ROMANCE N.J. NIELSEN Book three in the Wardens of the Guild series Family is supposed to love you—sometimes they'd like to love you to death... Once he was a day warden to his two best friends...until one day he threw it all away. Now all Gabriel Gillis wants is it all back. He just has to make up for a century or four of trying to kill said friends. Daven Banks is a member of the guild who doesn't like change. Even more so when his day warden finds a mate and his replacement, Gabriel, is a self-confessed would-be murderer—even if he was terrible at it, thank god. It also doesn't help that Daven is attracted to him. It's time for the fey to return from their entrapment and Artemis plans on claiming his two mates, Daven and Gabriel. At the same time, he has to reconnect with his own family. Between bad shit they were already fighting and the new drama thrown at them by an evil sadistic witch masquerading as something she's not, everyone needs to pull together to get the job done. Can Gabe, Dav and Artie sort through all the bullshit to get to the heart of the problem, or will the heartstring curse end not only them, but the whole Banks family?
-Published to accompany the exhibition Visions of Paradise, The National Gallery, London, 4 November 2015--14 February 2016---Colophon.