We're taking twelve weeks to read this painting-related book, from summer solstice to fall equinox.

We host a live chat every week to talk about things we've read, although reading is not required to participate in the conversation.

Join our chats and listen to all of our talks here.

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Fall 2022: The Mirror and the Palette, by Jennifer Higgie

Listen to all of our recorded chats for this book. The audio is free. Any web browser can be used to listen.

• Alice Neel
• Naked, Chapter 7
• Translation, Chapter 6
• Solitude, Chapter 5
• Hallucination, Chapter 4
• Allegory, Chapter 3
• Smile, Chapter 2
• Easel, Chapter 1
• Prologue
  

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Summer 2022: This Dark Country, by Rebecca Birrell

Listen to all of our recorded chats for this book. The audio is free. Any web browser can be used to listen.

• Women Artists, Still Life, and Intimacy.
• Dora Carrington, Chapter 1.
• Carrington, Chapter 1, Part 2.
• Edna Waugh, Chapter 2.
• Ethel Sands, Chapter 3.
• Mary Katharine Constance Lloyd, Chapter 4.
• Gluck, Chapter 5.
  
• Winifred Gill, Chapter 6.
• Vanessa Bell, Chapter 7.
• Gwen John, Chapter 8.
• Nina Hamnett, Chapter 9.
• Helen Coombe, Chapter 10.

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Spring 2022: The Eleven Associates of Alma Marceau, by The Old School Writers Circle

Take a listen at all of our recorded chats for this book. Audio is free. You can listen from any web browser.

• Art School Reveries / Winning an Art Prize.
  
• The Wireless Club and Dead Technology.
• Art: The Perfect Currency of the Bourgeois Bohemians
• Think Long and Hard of a painting Before Speaking About it.
• Painting the Invisible: Representing versus Visualizing.
• Painting from Photographs: Indispensable or Derivative?
• Sprezzatura in Painting: Try Less Hard.

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Winter 2021: James Elkins' WHAT PAINTING IS

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Fall 2021: Patti Smith's JUST KIDS

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Summer 2020: Mary Schmidt Campbell's AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY

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Spring 2020: Olivia Laing's THE LONELY CITY

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Winter 2019: Sarah Hall's HOW TO PAINT A DEAD MAN

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Fall 2019: Barbara Bourland's FAKE LIKE ME

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Summer 2019: Patrick White's THE VIVISECTOR

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Spring 2019: Ali Smith's HOW TO BE BOTH

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Winter 2018: Donna Tartt's THE GOLDFINCH

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