Summer Reading Recommendations
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The summer season is nearly here, and hopefully, that means you'll have time to catch up on your reading. In case you need some recommendations, here are 13 art books that the Art Calendar writers and editors are currently enjoying:

Seven Days in the Art World

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Seven Days in the Art World
by Sarah Thornton


Journalist Sarah Thorton looks at seven aspects of the art marketplace. Eye-opening stuff.

Who’s Reading it: Eric Maisel, Ligaya Figueras and Elizabeth Brady Robinson

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thomposon
Who’s Reading It: Ligaya Figueras and Elizabeth Brady Robinson

Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece, Money, Politics, Collectors, Greed, and Loss by Cynthia Saltzman
Who’s Reading It: Matthew Daub

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Who’s Reading It: Renée Phillips

The Undressed Art: Why We Draw by Peter Steinhart
Who’s Reading It: Diana Moses Botkin

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Who’s Reading It: Steve Meltzer

Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell
by Joan Stauffer
Who’s Reading It: Jack White

Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins
Who’s Reading It: Ligaya Figueras

Sister Wendy’s 1000 Masterpieces by Sister Wendy Beckett
Who’s Reading It: Annie Strack

The Triumph of Modernism, The Art World, 1985-2005 by Hilton Kramer
Who's Reading It: Stephen Knudsen

You Can Do a Graphic Novel
by Barbara Slate

Who’s Reading It: Jeffrey Lipsky

Art Without Compromise by Wendy Richmond
Who’s Reading It: Louise Buyo, Art Calendar Assistant Editor

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
by Leonard Shlain

Who’s Reading It: Kim Hall, Art Calendar Editor

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