National Network for Equitable Library Service

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. From sidewalks to the climate crisis, Living Disability brings together the vibrant perspectives of thirty-five disabled writers. They explore disability justice, analyze urban systems, and propose more equitable approaches to city building. Essays and interviews push the conversation about accessibility beyond policy papers and compliance checklists to show how disabled people are already creating more inclusive spaces in cities of all sizes.

New York Times bestseller. Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). An "exquisite" (The Washington Post) "hauntingly beautiful" (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year, but only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny.

Retour sur l'éclosion d'une artiste qui aura révolutionné la sculpture et la place des femmes dans l'Art. Tout semble dit ou écrit sur Camille Claudel, sauf sur ses jeunes années où éclot sa vocation à la sculpture qui deviendra une passion dévorante. Très tôt, « l'artiste de la famille » comme son frère Paul l'appelle, observe, dessine ses proches, ramasse de l'argile et du plâtre dans les carrières pour modeler de petites statues.

"Comme vous, je suis désolé de ne pouvoir exposer cette année la série des Nymphéas... Je suis très difficile pour moi-même, c'est peut-être vrai, mais cela vaut mieux que de montrer des choses qui sont médiocres." Figure-phare du mouvement impressionniste, auteur du tableau-manifeste Impression, soleil levant, Claude Monet (1840-1926) chercha sa vie durant - du Havre à Giverny, de Paris à Venise - la nuance de couleur juste.

Biographie de l'une des femmes les plus marquantes de l'ère révolutionnaire mexicaine. Rebelle dès son jeune âge, Frida Kahlo mène sa vie avec force et passion. Engagée dans le combat politique, proche des idéaux communistes, elle est l'une des femmes les plus marquantes de l'ère révolutionnaire mexicaine. Émancipée, elle ne veut pas suivre le chemin tout tracé de la femme mexicaine du début du siècle. Elle veut étudier, elle veut voyager, elle veut la liberté et le plaisir !

1921, Florence. Guccio Gucci ouvre son premier magasin et fonde un véritable empire familial. Trente ans plus tard, ses trois fils, Aldo, Vasco et Rodolpho, poursuivent son œuvre en imposant mondialement la marque tant sur le plan artistique que sur le plan commercial. La troisième génération donne à cette réussite exemplaire des allures de véritable roman. Les Gucci et leur famille vivent dans l'opulence, multiplient aventures sentimentales, fêtes et défis sportifs.

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair. Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary.

"Mesmerizing account of an amateur artist who made millions selling forged paintings to art-obsessed Nazis and business tycoons" (Kirkus, starred review). New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Staff Pick. "Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the twentieth century... An incomparable page turner." — Boston Globe. As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later.

A collection of forty-five true-crime stories about the visual arts in Australia: art theft, art forgery, art censorship, art vandalism, and protest art. The title comes from the famous artnapping of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the artnapper's demands was an art prize called 'The Picasso Ransom'. While that crime is famous, other stories of crimes, from the colonial to the contemporary, have faded from memory.

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.