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• 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

  a Memoir

  Ai, Weiwei, 1957-

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  Dissident and Ali Weiwei's wide ranging memoir reveals the struggles which made him an" important voice of freedom". At once an intimate portrait of his father's calm stoicism and the regime which repressed him and his own political…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pursuit of Art

  Travels, Encounters and Revelations

  Gayford, Martin, 1952-

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  With an Art critic's eye Martin brings us along as his traveling companion as he travels to far flung places in his quest to see art for himself. In his travelogue he shares his impressions of art with us, conversing with artists revelling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tsarina's Lost Treasure

  Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck

  Easter, Gerald, 1959-

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  A rich gripping story of Dutch artists, royal politics and maritime history intertwined with the search for a lost treasure ship and an artist’s rise and fall. In 1771 a ship carrying Dutch masterpieces destined for Catherine the Great’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hare With Amber Eyes

  a Hidden Inheritance

  De Waal, Edmund, 1964-

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  Edmund de Waal inherits a collection of exquisite netsuke (Japanese miniature sculpture) from his uncle sparking a dramatic journey into his family history. Extremely rich collectors of art with fabulous and prescient taste, they became…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pop Song

  Adventures in Art and Intimacy

  Pham, Larissa

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  Asian American pop culture critic and millennial voice Larissa Pham, brings us a collection of meditations on art in an escape essayist's exploration of her internal landscape.

• The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!

  the Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation

  Hirsch, Alan, 1959-

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  An incredible heist involving the most famous portrait of England’s greatest general and a bizarre Robin Hood character who holds it to ransom. This is the story of the oddest of robberies. Hirsch takes you to the time when it was gripping…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Renoir

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  A luscious reimagining of Renoir's later years living and painting in the south of France and the story of his last model, the woman who married his son Jean and served as muse in Jean's early films.

• The Liberators

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  The tale of a determined private detective chasing the truth about a valuable medieval art work that somehow made its way to a small town in Texas. Was it another Nazi theft or did the Americans do it? Nominated for the Gamechanger Award…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Art Thieves, Fakers & Fraudsters

  the New Zealand Story

  Jackson, Penelope, 1962-

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  A book about scandalous New Zealand art crimes. Full of amusing and unlikely anecdotes which may remind you of episodes from Outrageous Fortune. A fascinating look into the art underworld most of us didn’t know we had.

• The Woman Who Stole Vermeer

  the True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist

  Amore, Anthony M.

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  Women can do anything! In this case illustrated by the life of the wealthy and rebellious Rose Dugdale. She became the only woman so far to mastermind a major art heist, with a haul including Gainsborough, Rubens and Vermeer. It was not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Treasure Palaces

  Great Writers Visit Great Museums

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  Articulated by award winning authors, poets, editors and journalists join them as they take us on a joyous odyssey; revealing hidden treasures and unravelling what speaks to us and how we relate to and are inspired by great museums.

• Plundering Beauty

  a History of Art Crime During War

  Tompkins, Arthur

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  A leading authority on art crime New Zealander Arthur Tompkin's narrative takes us through key moments in history disclosing with poignancy what each loss has meant to the world.

• Master Thieves

  the Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

  Kurkjian, Stephen A.

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  A street kid with inside information, a crime boss, and a huge heist of 13 works from a major museum. The police are at a loss. Eventually the FBI admit they know who did it, but won’t tell. An investigative journalist of high standing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Rivalry

  Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

  Smee, Sebastian

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  Art critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Sebastian Smee examines how the connection between artists affect the trajectory of their art. Revealing their relationships with their lovers and with each other, the intimacy and competition which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good as Goldie

  the Amazing Story of New Zealand's Most Famous Art Forger

  Goldie, C. F. (Carl Feodor)

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  New Zealand’s prolific and successful art forger tells his own colourful story. Born Karl Sim, he changed his name to C F Goldie. Sim has a flare for the dramatic and a long history as a fraudster and his story is unsurprisingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation