ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/30/2024 Danny Lyon at Photobook AustinDATE 4/30/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Roger A. Deakins with James Ellis Deakins and Matthew Heineman on 'Byways'DATE 4/25/2024 Joshua Charow's 'Loft Law' documents the last of NYC's original artist loftsDATE 4/25/2024 Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024!DATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow in conversation with Wendy Goodman for the launch of 'Loft Law'DATE 4/24/2024 Bungee Space presents Set Margins’ 6-Book Launch and Get TogetherDATE 4/21/2024 Time & Space Limited presents "Memory as Various: Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/20/2024 Heads up on 4/20!DATE 4/18/2024 Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive presents Pyramid Pioneers with 'We Started a Nightclub' signingDATE 4/18/2024 A birthright and a legacy in Ivan McClellan's 'Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture'DATE 4/14/2024 Vintage 'Audio Erotica' from Jonny TrunkDATE 4/13/2024 Unnameable Books presents "Reading from Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/13/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth presents Heather McCalden and Cyrus Dunham launching 'The Observable Universe: An Investigation' | BOOKS IN THE MEDIAMADDIE GILMORE | DATE 2/22/2017Small Wonders: Late Gothic Boxwood Microcarvings from the Low CountriesSmall Wonders came right on time (even if it is going to sell out immediately). Published on the occasion of an exhibition that opened today at the Met Cloisters, which will travel to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, this book and the tiny treasures it holds offer up the perfect dose of amazement and escape during a time in which our daily tasks can seem unbearably large. Small Wonders is all about prayer nuts: miniscule boxwood carvings from the late-Gothic period that depict religious scenes and texts. Though the heyday for prayer nuts was nearly 500 years ago, dozens remain in the watchful possession of museums, many of which are included in this remarkable volume. |