Virtual Library

A collection of select reading + podcast recommendations for artists!

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Essays + Select Texts:

• “Decide Who You Are” by Adrien Piper

• “Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the art assignment” - Excerpts by Mira Schor + Rochelle Feinstein

• “Empathy and Abstraction (Excerpts)” by Doug Ashford

• “In Praise of Shadows” from Six Drawing Lessons by William Kentridge

• “Materials and Miscellanea: A Philosophy of Craft” from The Language of Drawing by Edward Hill

• “Painting per se” by Merlin James

• "On Failure + Anonymity” by Mira Schor

• “There is no single ‘best’ way to write about art” from How to Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams

• “Women Artists: The Creative Process” from Art on My Mind by bell hooks

• “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin [Catherine Haggarty’s Pick]

• “Why are there no great women artists?” by Linda Nochlin [Catherine Haggarty’s Pick]

• “Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture” (1978) by Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff [Hilary Doyle’s Pick]

• “Positive Obsession” (1995) from Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler [Leeza Meksin’s Pick]

• “Drawn to that Moment” by John Berger

• “Further Notes on Shape” by Amy Sillman
  

Institution’s Virtual Libraries - Hundreds of art books + catalogues to view online!

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

• The Getty Museum

Podcasts:

Sound & Vision

Pep Talks for Artists

Field Pod (A New Podcast by Field Projects!)

The Great Women Artists Podcasts

The Amy Beecher Show

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Only Artists

The Week in Art

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