Amanda Benchley News Today

Most of the 2023 year-end book lists we’ve been reading are categorized by genre. Not this one. This impressive list of books published in 2023 will be sorted into categories that those of us who visit and live on the Vineyard spend quality time debating. The three categories for this list of books have to […]

Here it is, right in front of us, the Great American Feast, Thanksgiving, the beacon that next comes the gift-giving holidays, a sharing of things we hope others will love as much as we love giving them. There is nothing I love giving more than books, sharing ones I’ve discovered over the past year.  And […]

There should be a warning on the cover of Tamara Weiss, Amanda Benchley, and Elizabeth Cecil’s new book, “Vineyard Folk: Creative People and Places of Martha’s Vineyard,” that reads, “Not just a gorgeous coffee table book.” It is testimony and a treatise for why we should all be working not just to preserve the land, […]

Make this Easter an art-filled one with Thomas Demand and Open Studio The German artist likes to get creative with eggs. Here’s how he does it, and how you can do it too No one thinks of the German artist Thomas Demand as a simple illustrator. Indeed, our book Open Studio characterises him as “a self-described conceptual artist.” “He has become internationally famous for making life-size paper and cardboard sculptures that are reconstructions from photographs of actual spaces, like Jack...

19 Fashion Coffee Table Books All Footwear Fanatics Should Own Allie Fasanella If you have a shoe lover in your life or consider yourself to be one, the book world is filled with fun footwear-themed titles — from designer monographs and sneaker collectors’ guides to artsy photo books perfect for the coffee table. Ahead, our 20 favorite shoe-centric coffee table boots and where to find them. “Sneakers” Esquire contributing editor Alex French and Wall Street Journal contr...

Watch the Haas Brothers in their studio The Californian artists shared their working space and practices with Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Amanda Benchley, authors of our new book Open Studio We can’t drop in on artists’ studios at the moment, but last week Phaidon and RxArt offered the next best thing, when Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Amanda Benchley, authors of our new book Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects By Contemporary Artists, hosted a talk with the Californian siblings and arti...