This fine showcase of Japanese art displays in clear photographs pottery that is on par with famous paintings and sculptures. The Asian art collection of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has long been known as one of the best such... Read More

Alice Steer Wilson’s art is displayed, and stories told, with a curator’s eye and a daughter’s love. Victor Hugo once wrote, “To love beauty is to see light.” This quote sums up the rich life and luminous work of the late... Read More

This well-researched biography is as visually delightful as one of the Haders’ books. Children’s book lovers and collectors have a wonderful new present, as brightly and invitingly packaged as any childhood birthday gift, with the... Read More

Five hundred professional photographs of jaw-dropping artworks that were conceived and created for a particular location, from Canada to Patagonia. Read More

Nature photography at its highest level serves to both overwhelm our senses and deepen our relationship with this planet, our home. To describe this book as anything less than the end-all coffee-table book would be an injustice. Read More

Fifty million people visited Manhattan last year, and those who put a museum on their itinerary probably chose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Halpern and Harvey Applebaum have nothing against the Met, but they’d like you to know... Read More

It’s the dead of winter: time to get out of town. Most folks will think beach, but National Geographic’s latest coffee-table offering inspires creativity. Why not celebrate snow instead of flying away from it? Quebec City’s Winter... Read More

In the 1870s, Americans began buying books as prestigious decorative objects (as well as literature), and publishers invested grandly in top artists and expensive production methods. The one-hundred-plus covers herein are stunning works... Read More