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Following the chapters on specific art intentions, in the chapter "Transforming the Hospital Experience Through Art", Rollins tackles some of the practical considerations of art acquisition and installation, stakeholder contribution, specific considerations for patient spaces compared to public areas, and methods for evaluating visual art programs. By placing curiosity at the center of the art experience, Rollins is challenging practitioners to think beyond narrow confines of design specifications that often limit art selections and foreclose the viewer's experience of art. Design professionals will find not only new ways to make art useful in healthcare settings, as well as a rich set of examples to consider, they will locate value in the "common thread" of curiosity theory that Rollins identifies throughout. [Extracted from the article]

Some essays discuss urban processes, construction technologies in Bagan cities, and the continuation of urban centers from the Pyu period, while others look at either a single religious motif at a temple in Bagan or religious symbols in architecture or the presence of Bagan-style architecture outside Bagan. He also takes issue with the question of the layout of Bagan, critiquing Hudson's thesis that the development of Bagan did not represent an evolution from Pyu culture. [Extracted from the article]

In the long list of scholarship regarding C. G. Jung's ([2]) I Liber Novus i , better known as I The Red Book, i Jill Mellick's book, I The Red Book Hours: Discovering C. G. Jung's Art Mediums and Creative Process i , is unique. As she says, "for Jung..., creative process I was i a form of contemplation and meditation.... [His] art was more than art; it was his life's spiritual practice" (Mellick, 2018, p. 386). The Red Book Hours: Discovering C. G. Jung's Art Mediums and Creative Process(2018). [Extracted from the article]

But how might BEB compare to encyclopaedias for other prominent religious traditions, such as the I Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World i (Oxford, 2009), which is available both in print and online? I Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism i (BEB) is an ambitious undertaking, aiming to describe the full range of classical Buddhism in a topical fashion. There are a fair number of contemporary scholars who have done substantial work on this Yuezhi translator, including people directly involved with this encyclopaedia project. [Extracted from the article]

The fifth publication in the Getty Conservation Institute's (GCI) series, I The Artist's Materials i is dedicated to the American artist Sam Francis. In the case of Francis, the book makes accessible not only the beauty of what we see as the final image of the artwork, but also the fascinating complexity of what is behind it. It also contains archival photographs of the different studio settings where the artworks were created and of the materials used by Sam Francis as well as images of the artist at work, which, as we learn from the authors, are rare, since he didn't like very much to be observed while working. [Extracted from the article]

Russell, Catherine, Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices. Russell sheds a new light on some of the more previously under-visited works of Benjamin, applying them to a film and new media context in unique ways. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui," by Alison Goldberg, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon, is presented.

By failing to clearly distinguish "ethnic/ethnologic dance" from "international dance", Kowal at times unintentionally reproduces one of the key problems she is actually criticizing -- namely, the role globalist projects often played in reinforcing notions of US culture grounded in whiteness. Dance historian Rebekah J. Kowal's latest book expands her ongoing investigation of how dance participated in the making of US political culture and ideology in the mid-twentieth century. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book “Making Art from Maps: Inspiration, Techniques, and an International Gallery of Artists,” by Jill K. Berry, is presented.

Butoh, an avant-garde art form developed in 1960s Japan that expanded into a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century, has received more attention in English-language scholarship than any other dance practice from East Asia. Numerous book-length studies, including most recently two by the editors of this volume, examine in detail the artistic I oeuvres i of major butoh or butoh-adjacent artists such as Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Eiko and Koma, and others, while also examining the histories, artistries, and politics of butoh in Japan and around the globe. One highlight for me in reading this book was the attention it pays not only to the development of butoh as an artistic practice but also to the competing interpretive discourses that surround it. [Extracted from the article]

Opposing art implements must learn to coexist in the same space and create together as one adds while the other subtracts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]