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New Book features the best photography and style from the first four years of The Sartorialist fashion blog.

A group show combines multiple authors and media in considering the inherent subjectivity of documentary form.

Summer reading gets a playful visual revamp in a new group show featuring Jane Mount, Thomas Allen, Ed Ruscha, Tim Walker and others.

NYAB reviews the impressive companion book to one of the season’s must-see exhibitions, “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective” currently on view at the Met.

New on DVD, “The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine” by documentary filmmakers Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach gives viewers insight into Louis Bourgeois’s creative process and fascinating personal history.

Artist Michael Iskowitz debuts a solo show of intense self-portraits at the new Esopus Space.

A review of Martin Provost’s new biopic: a sensitive, atmospheric portrait of the troubled French painter Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1948).

This week NYAB checked out Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same, Jody Lee Lipes’ documentary about the off-kilter, passionate, and often goofy journey of Brooklyn-based artist Brock Enright and his girlfriend, painter Kirsten Deirup.

Despite the apocalyptic title of their new exhibition, Graffiti artists Faro, Avoid, and Bloke place more emphasis on wheat paste and acrylic than fire and brimstone.

At the Park Avenue Armory, Ernesto Neto has created a membranous arcade both primal and precise in design.