Adventurer of wanderlust at sea

John Moynihan, son of New York’s senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, went to work on the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University.

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The Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) art collective was founded in 2005 by Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua and Leng Lin.

The painter with a thunderstorm in his heart

Michiko Kakutani, an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, recommended Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith as one of the 10 best books of 2011.

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Tao Na reinvents the square as a formal constraint, envisioning it not as a vehicle for color, but as the ubiquitous pixel of the digital age – the building blocks of modern images. This is the first publication on her work.

The King of Calypso from Harlem

American singer Harry Belafonte tells of his twisted and exciting life in the Harlem slums, his first calypso record and his immense success in the singing world in My Song, a memoir co-written with Michael Shnayerson.

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In this book, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians sets the record straight, providing a truly comprehensive survey and analysis of 20th-century Brazilian architecture.

Strong-willed musician who wrote in his ‘own blood’

The extraordinary life and work of Gustav Mahler, a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation, is now presented as a more manageable overview in Gustav Mahler.

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By following Mahler’s every footstep from birth to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts and talking to those who knew him, cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived outside his times.

The Shakespearean drama of an unclaimed son

Michael Lindsay-Hogg, a film and Broadway director, recalls his Shakespearean drama of life as the unclaimed son of actor and director Orson Welles in his book Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond.

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This collection examines the 20th-century transformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs and art…