Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City — some 6,000 miles — to write the award-winning “The New York Nobody Knows.” Later, he re-walked most of the Bronx to create this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city’s northern borough, from Mott Haven to City Island. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journey through this fascinating, diverse, and under appreciated borough, Helmreich highlights hundreds of facts and points of interest that you won’t find in any other guide.
What We Are Reading Today: Invisible Hands by Margaret S. Graves
In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the 20th century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market.
“Invisible Hands” tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have died out with the advent of industrialization, were redirected toward a thriving new market in the colonial era: the fabrication and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.
In this stunning work of art history, Margaret Graves shakes the foundations of the discipline, challenging us to reconsider what is and is not art.
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