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Congrats @heni !! Robert Storr's new 'Writings on Art 2006–2021' is an @artnet Staff Pick for the New Year!⁠ ⁠ Kate Brown writes, "This new compilation of writing, published last month, pulls together 51 of Storr’s most captivating articles, essays and other texts from the past 15 years. The esteemed critic writes passionately and intelligently about 45 international artists, including El Anatsui, Francesco Clemente, and David Hammons—sometimes in texts published in English for the first time. The book is the follow-up to Storr’s essential volume one, titled 'Writings on Art 1980-2005,' which was also edited by Francesca Pietropaolo."⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings #artwriting @kate__brown⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ — https://www.instagram.com/artbook/p/CYT8wrZrIwv/?utm_medium=tumblr

Let's just say this book is a must-have for anyone interested in contemporary art or artists. Collecting Robert Storr's 'Writings on Art 2006–2021,' this is the second volume in the acclaimed series from @heni⁠ ⁠ It's a recent critic's pick @theartnewspaper.official and @brooklynrail where @william_corwin writes, "Storr’s essays gently nudge us to be our better selves. As editor Francesca Pietropaolo points out in her introduction, Storr is 'complicit' with the reader and doesn’t alienate with any authoritative hierarchy, either with jargon or dismissive tone, except maybe with Damien Hirst, but there’s an exception to every rule. Even further to that point, the author admits a certain vulnerability which makes the 51 essays even more readable: 'Most of these essays address art with which I have had problems, the sorting out of which is the true subject of my writing' he confides to us in his introduction. This is the second volume, the first having covered Storr’s essays 1980–2005. The language is beautiful: Rosalind Krauss inhabits a 'citadel' of art history, and a lively description of Kim Jones’s Mudman is deftly aligned with Hobbes’s philosophy—this isn’t writing trying to be smart, but it will make you smarter.…" ⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Please order the book from your favorite independent bookstore!⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CXopgK3pOc8/?utm_medium=tumblr

Guess what? 'Writings on Art 2006–2021,' the much-anticipated second volume of Robert Storr’s lucid, insightful chronicles of modern and contemporary art, has released this week!⁠ ⁠ Featuring the best of Robert Storr’s criticism—reviews, essays and articles, many of which are previously unpublished—from 2006 to the present day, this 716-page volume includes his texts on artists such as Gego, Carrie Mae Weems, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, El Anatsui and Francesco Clemente. Written with his signature intellect and wit, his writings range from essays on performances of femininity in Cindy Sherman’s photographic oeuvre to dialectics of race in the work of Kara Walker.⁠ ⁠ Expertly curated from his prolific output, and illustrated with 175 images to accompany 51 texts, 'Writings on Art' is the definitive collection of Storr’s multifaceted writing with his finger on the pulse of contemporary art—a must-read for curators and students, artists, exhibition-goers and all those interested in the art and culture of today.⁠ ⁠ Published by @heni Edited by Francesca Pietropaolo.⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCT5eepb4n/?utm_medium=tumblr

Robert Storr's gorgeous 672-page 'Writings on Art 1980–2005' is a NEW RELEASE this week from @heni⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Believe it or not, this monumental trove is only the first of a two-volume set, launching virtually tonight, TUES, 11/17 at 6PM ET, with a conversation between Storr and the book's editor, Francesca Pietropaolo, via @paulacoopergallery & @192books in New York. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "Writing to someone, without knowing who that someone might be, is at the heart of Storr’s critical output," Pietropaolo writes. "There is a longed-for interlocutor, unnamed and yet ever present. The invitation to the reader to engage with a text, in dialog with the writer and with themselves, is palpable even in, or perhaps because of, its elusiveness. A self-declared 'insatiable scopophiliac bedeviled by the written word,' Storr proves to be one of the most influential and riveting art writers of our time. Infused with a remarkable agility of intelligence and an uncompromising belief in the importance of art, the writings collected in this book show just that and make sparks fly."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more about the event via linkinbio⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from @192books ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CHs1kJipkpy/?igshid=1c4lpohd1orul