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Congratulations to the University of Alaska Press and authors James Barker, Ann Fienup-Riordan and Theresa Arevgaq John for their win this weekend for Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup’ik Ways of Dancing! “A significant literary contribution to the understanding of Alaska and Alaskan history,” the book was selected for the Alaska Library Association’s 2011 Alaskana award.

The Center for Books and Paper Arts at Columbia College will host a panel Thursday on the role of chance in visual art and literary practices. Instigating Accidents: Chance as Strategy and Aesthetic will feature Meredith Malone, curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and editor of Chance Aesthetics (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2009), along with artist Robin Price and poet Judith Goldman. This discussion of historic and contemporary uses of randomness, moderated by art historian Simon Anderson of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 17, at 1104 South Wabash Ave on the second floor.

Image Credit: Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance V, 1951. Collage on paper, 39 x 39". Collection of Ellsworth Kelly.

David Craven, editor of Dialectical Conversions: Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism will be on hand at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York this Friday to sign copies of his new book out this month with Liverpool University Press. Prior to the signing, there will be a presentation and discussion of the book, which includes contributions by more than two dozen artists, critics, and historians, including Anselm Kiefer, April Gornik, Rudolf Baranik, and Georg Baselitz.

For more information, please see the gallery’s press release.

The new issue of the Atlantic has a stunning two part feature on the work of architect Louis Sullivan, which is now fully collected beside the work of his colleague Dankmar Adler in a catalog raisonne published by the Richard Nickel Committee.

Read the review by Ben Schwarz and see the slideshow of some of the Midwest's most extraordinary architecture.