Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For April the featured pairing is "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac and Art of the 1950s and '60s. When published, "On the Road" was hailed by The New York Times as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest, and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'"

Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For March the featured pairing is "Art as Therapy", by Alain de Botton and A Revisionary Museum Tour. De Botton's book suggests a new approach to looking at art and investigates how certain works may have clues related to managing the tensions, joy, and confusion of life. Re-imagine the Museum's galleries along the lines de

Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For February the featured pairing is "Next Year in Havana", by Chanel Cleeton and The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art. Cleeton's novel tells the story of a Cuban-American woman who travels to Havana after the death of her beloved grandmother. There she discovers the roots of her identity--and

Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For January the featured pairing is "Foursome" by Carolyn Burke and Georgia O'Keefe: Living Modern. Burke researched the correspondence among artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Rebecca Salsbury and Paul Strand, "to reveal how each of them inspired, provoked and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation." The book discussion is paired with

Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For December the featured pairing is "The House of Broken Angels," by Luis Alberto Urrea and The Body Says I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art. In this bestselling epic saga, Luis Alberto Urrea tells the story of the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border celebrating two of their

Book + Art is a series that connects the public with reading and visual arts. For November the featured pairing is "The Age of Light," by Whitney Scharer and WHO? A Brief History of Photography through Portraiture.