My Cart
Gift Certificates

ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 6/25/2025

Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'

DATE 6/22/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Dawoud Bey, Michelle Kuo and Joseph Logan on 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger'

DATE 6/21/2025

ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'

DATE 6/15/2025

Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025

DATE 6/13/2025

In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it all

DATE 6/12/2025

'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!

DATE 6/9/2025

Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce Davidson

DATE 6/8/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'

DATE 6/7/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'

DATE 6/5/2025

A love letter from Robert Frank

DATE 6/2/2025

Exact Change launches Chris Marker's 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version'

DATE 6/1/2025

Inspiration for now in 'Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough'

DATE 6/1/2025

Pride Month Staff Picks 2025!


IMAGE GALLERY

Featured spread, captioned "27/8/18, Skiathos, morning thunder coming. Slightly down the hill from Agios Nikolaos," is reproduced from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/12/2019

Anne Desmet's 'A Greek Journey' is dazzling in its simplicity

Featured spread, captioned "27/8/18, Skiathos, morning thunder coming. Slightly down the hill from Agios Nikolaos," is reproduced from A Greek Journey, the Royal Academy’s charming sketchbook-like collection of Anne Desmet’s watercolor drawings made during three Greek summers spanning thirty-four years. The first series was made when Desmet was an art student, in 1984, traveling the Northern Sporades and Aegean Sea with a friend, her uncle and her brother. The second was made in 1985, while traveling with her mother and brother on Alonissos. “One balmy night found us, with my uncle and Greek fishermen friends, on the uninhabited island of Pelagos eating barbequed octopus on the seashore beneath the shining Milky Way and a myriad shooting stars,” she writes. The final series was made in 2018, while traveling with her husband and young children. “The cheerily painted wooden caïques were long gone—replaced by sleek tourist yachts and cruisers—the streets were crowded, whitewashed buildings more numerous. But the landscape and its dazzling colors were unchanged and evoked nostalgic memories. Thus the thirteenth anniversary of my wonderful uncle’s death saw us drinking a toast to his memory from a bar in Patitiri harbor, which seemed to bring my Greek journey full circle.”

Anne Desmet: A Greek Journey

Anne Desmet: A Greek Journey

Royal Academy of Arts
Hbk, 6 x 4 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color.





From Mucha to Manga

DATE 3/31/2025

From Mucha to Manga

Long live 'STUFF'!

DATE 3/27/2025

Long live 'STUFF'!

This week, we gather!

DATE 11/28/2024

This week, we gather!

Photorealism lives!

DATE 11/24/2024

Photorealism lives!

Know your propaganda!

DATE 11/11/2024

Know your propaganda!

Halloween reading

DATE 10/31/2024

Halloween reading

Denim deep dive

DATE 10/27/2024

Denim deep dive