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 – 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art by Susan Mowery Kieffer
In 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art, Susan Mowery Kieffer undertakes the ambitious task of distilling the vast, multivalent world of basketry into a single, arresting volume—an endeavour that, on its face, might seem quixotic. Yet Kieffer’s curatorial eye and writerly sensibility ensure that this is far more than a mere “coffee-table” compendium. Here, baskets become more than … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art by Susan Mowery Kieffer
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Pain and Passion by Andrea Kettenmann
Andrea Kettenmann’s Frida Kahlo: 1907–1954 – Pain and Passion stands as one of the most perspicacious art‐historical studies of Kahlo’s life and work. Merging rigorous archival scholarship with a sensitive reading of visual and textual materials, Kettenmann offers readers not simply a chronology of events, but a nuanced portrait of an artist whose identity was inextricably bound … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Pain and Passion by Andrea Kettenmann
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors by Jane Kallir
In Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors, Jane Kallir offers not merely a catalog of Schiele’s extraordinary draftsmanship but a nuanced exploration of the artist’s tumultuous inner life, aesthetic evolution, and the historical milieu that shaped him. Kallir, herself heir to Vienna’s Sezessionist legacy, brings a curator’s eye and a scholar’s rigour to her analysis, guiding the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors by Jane Kallir
The New Renaissance Mindset 