Published: June 2010

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was famously charming and famously hard to really know. Arguably one of the three most influential 20th-century U.S. dealers (Alfred Stieglitz and Sidney Janis are the other two), he brought a European elegance and grace to a profession that is all too often home to the egotistical and sharp-elbowed.

Published: September 2009

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Once elaborate maps were rare and precious—vital, often state-owned documents considered key to war and exploration. Now you can locate any address you like on Google Earth, and be continuously guided there by GPS. While maps have changed in precision and accessibility, they remain fraught with cultural and individual meaning. In her striking new book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, freelance author Katharine Harmon brings together a wide selection of maps clearly meant to be more psychologically expressive than geographically correct.

Published: October 2009

Publisher: Yale University Press

Sotheby’s sale in November of Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting 200 One Dollar Bills, for $43.7 million, was a signal not only that the art market is roaring back but that fascination with Warhol has never gone away.

Published: March 2010

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

During the third quarter of the 20th century, the New Yorker—characterized by intellectual assurance, cultural breadth and refreshing clarity—played a central role in defining late modern taste. Affiliated writers such as Whitney Balliett, Arlene Croce, Janet Flanner, Brendan Gill, Pauline Kael, Lewis Mumford, Harold Rosenberg and Edmund Wilson frequently upended conventional thinking and promoted vanguard experimentation.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

First published in 1858, Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical secured its author, Henry Gray (1827-1861), an enduring place in the annals of medicine and the history of art. A standard reference on the structure of the human body, the book is available today in its 40th print edition and in an abridged version online.1 In The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame, Ruth Richardson now illuminates the context from which this famous tome emerged in Victorian London.