Publications

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love

The most enticing of the ancient divinities, Aphrodite also remains the most enigmatic. Worshipped and celebrated, she has been depicted in ways both...

Ellsworth Kelly
Wood Sculpture

Ellsworth Kelly describes the thirty wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his “totems.” This small body...

Degas and the Nude

While Edgar Degas is celebrated for his portraits and his dancers, his nudes are frequently overlooked. Degas and the Nude explores the artist’s...

Artful Adornments
Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A mode of self-expression that can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, jewelry can be as culturally revealing as it is stunningly beautiful...

Lethal Elegance
The Art of Samurai Sword Fittings

As the soul of the samurai, the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the West, is...

Chihuly
Through the Looking Glass

Arguably the most famous glass artist since Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dale Chihuly has been credited with elevating blown glass from delicate decorative...

Art and Artifice
Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era

These photographs reveal an astounding virtuosity—not only in composition but also in the technique of color retouching, which brought views of...

Scaasi: American Couturier

From his meteoric rise in the late 1950s through his heyday in the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful...

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese
Rivals in Renaissance Venice

For nearly four decades in the 16th century, the careers of Venice’s three greatest painters overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter...

Splendor and Elegance
European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection

Spanning 18th century French and English decorative arts, Old Master drawings, and paintings, the Brock Collection is dedicated above all to the...

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Editorial Reviews and Awards

“With gorgeous images and accessible text, [Fashioned by Sargent] is highly recommended for audiences interested in fine art in relation to fashion.”
—Sandra Rothenberg, Library Journal

About Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence: “Accompanied by a catalog that masterfully interweaves historical biography with individual image analysis, the exhibition is a welcome addition to the scholarship devoted to the artist and a unique exploration of systems of artistic influence.”
—Ashley Busby, Art & Antiques Magazine

“Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories reveals a rich, complex and often overlooked history of North America as told from individual experiences manifested within the tradition of quiltmaking. The book illustrates how quilts are more than material objects of comfort and aesthetic beauty. They are archives of social, political and cultural histories.”
—Art Libraries Society of North America

“In this pandemic year of missing most everything, we’ve been trained to look for silver linings wherever possible. So here’s mine: [Cy Twombly: Making Past Present], which I got a few months back, is gorgeous.”
—Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe

“In these flattened times, Writing the Future conveys motion. The book, a companion to a suspended exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is about Basquiat, his contemporaries, and early hip-hop culture, but it’s also about the movements and rhythms of New York City—'the work of the subway writers became as optically and optimally omnipresent as the Manhattan skyline,' Greg Tate writes. And in its dynamic blend of art, history, and analysis, it has a movement of its own.”
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair

About Writing the Future: “To leaf through this prodigy’s oeuvre intermingled with photos of what he called 'just … you know, my friends and stuff'; of their tags brightening storefronts and subway cars, of the boomboxes and leather jackets and reference books they at once desecrated and elevated, is to hold in your hands the record of a place and a time and a togetherness we can only hope one day to experience again.”
—Lauren Christensen, ​The New York Times Book Review

“[Casanova is] one of the flat out best art books of the year. Don’t miss it—you’ll read it like a novel with pictures.”
—Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes podcast

“The handsome volume [Hokusai’s Lost Manga] includes dozens of lively, lovely images, showcasing Hokusai’s skill at capturing movement, in swirling garments, in water, in wind, in bodies in motion at work, spinning pots on a wheel, making paper, washing a horse, trekking up a hill.”
—Boston Sunday Globe

“[The Priest, the Prince, the Pasha is] a feat of storytelling that makes ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ look like kid stuff.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“[In Holland on Paper, Cliff] Ackley has, in this stunning volume, contributed significantly to the larger project of opening up to the English-speaking world an intriguing chapter in what has until recently been among the best kept secrets of modern art. With the appearance of this splendidly illustrated and valuable book, the secret is out.”
—Joan E. Greer, Art in Print

“The large reproductions in [John Singer Sargent Watercolors], several with accompanying details, offer some of the best viewing of his work in printed form. Seduction will lead to Dazzle.”
—Carl Little, Art New England

”[She Who Tells a Story] may well go down as a landmark in the worlds of contemporary photography and graphic arts. In addition they illuminate the subtle but explosive changes now transforming Middle Eastern societies.”
—John G. Morris