Dorothy Kosinski’s Matisse, Painter and Sculptor reads like a curator’s close-reading: richly attentive to objects, attentive to provenance and process, and driven by a desire to show how a single artist sustained two apparently distinct practices across a long career. Kosinski’s central move — to treat Matisse’s painting and sculpture not as separate chapters of a life … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Matisse, Painter and Sculptor by Dorothy Kosinski
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Musings of a Curious Aesthete by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s Musings of a Curious Aesthete reads like the work of a practiced conversationalist who has spent a lifetime whispering provocations into the ear of design and culture. Part memoir, part aesthetic tract, the book collects short, nimble essays that move from recollection to critique with the lightness of a sketchbook and the stubborn … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Musings of a Curious Aesthete by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts reads less like a conventional monograph and more like an invitation to a practiced, patient conversation — half aphorism, half careful exegesis — with one of the thinnest and most capacious concepts in modern aesthetics. Where so many volumes try to define wabi-sabi by checklist or historical excavation, Koren treats … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers reads less like a conventional treatise and more like a pocket anthology of aesthetic instructions and provocations — a distilled program for seeing differently. Its ambition is modest and precise: to translate a notoriously slippery Japanese sensibility into language useful to makers and thinkers in the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – What Artists Do by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do reads less like a conventional handbook and more like a pocket philosopher’s lecture delivered in fragments. The book is compact, aphoristic, and intentionally spare — a series of short meditations on the activities, habits, anxieties, and tiny triumphs that make up an artist’s working life. Koren does not attempt a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – What Artists Do by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
Alexandra Kolossa’s Haring reads like a choreography of image and intimacy: at once biographical sketch, ekphrastic meditation and elegy for an era in which art made itself at the street’s edge. The book resists the tidy architecture of conventional life-writing; instead Kolossa arranges her pages as a series of glances — quick, incandescent, then gone … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon’s Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (2019) completes the informal trilogy begun with Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work. Where the earlier volumes championed the playful theft of ideas and the vulnerability of artistic visibility, Keep Going emerges as the most meditative of Kleon’s works, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
N. H. Kleinbaum’s Dead Poets Society is a curious hybrid: at once a faithful novelization of a widely loved film and an independent, readable meditation on pedagogy, adolescent longing, and the costs of inspirational speech. Working from Tom Schulman’s screenplay (and the film’s vivid visual memory), Kleinbaum translates a cinematic script into a prose text … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 19: March to War by Robert Kirkman
In The Walking Dead, Vol. 19: March to War, Robert Kirkman shifts his narrative emphasis from survival horror to political maneuvering, expanding the scope of the series into the realm of power, ideology, and collective action. This instalment functions less as a self-contained volume and more as the laying of groundwork for a broader conflict, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 19: March to War by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After is not merely a continuation of the series’ grim survival narrative but a profound study of grief, leadership, and the tenuous scaffolding of social order in a world where law has collapsed. This volume follows the harrowing confrontation with Negan in Something to Fear, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After
The New Renaissance Mindset 