Please join us for informal book club discussions hosted by Leslie Connito.
The intention and direction of the Remix is to share fresh ideas from new and admired writers. Like a salon, this platform could bring members work together for shows by sparking new ideas through open and shared discussion.
Books and Meeting Times
Every 3rd Tuesday, 3:30 – 4:30 PM (after Art for Peace)
October 15: Ninth Street Women, by Mary Gabriel
November 19: Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts,
Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night, by Jerry Saltz
December 17: Proust was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer
January 28, 2025: How to be both: a novel, by Ali Smith
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
by Mary Gabriel
“Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting — not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come…”
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
by Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby’s Institute of Art has called him, simply, “the art critic.” …”
Proust Was A Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
“…Taking a group of artists — a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists — Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language — a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists…”
How to be both: A novel Paperback
by Ali Smith
“…How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else…”
NOTE: All Remix Autumn book descriptions were taken from Amazon.com, with no author claim attached to them and are partial excerpts spotted only for the Remix book club. Please go to amazon.com or other book websites for further descriptions and remarks.
Leslie Connito
Hosted by Leslie Connito
Leslie Connito is an artist, writer, and reader. She studied painting and art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons in Paris at the American College, and Hunter College in NYC. She taught Art Appreciation in Hoboken, NJ, and has given many lectures about her art work and her children’s books. She also wrote and performed 13 Murder Mystery dinner parties. Leslie has many hobbies including horseback riding, beekeeping, poultry keeping, gardening, skiing, sailing, and at one point, dog showing.
2023 Book Club Selections
The Cloisters, by Katy Hays, Horse, by Geraldine Brooks, The Invisible History of the Human Race, by Cristine Kenneally, The Gift, How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, by Lewis Hyde, Visual Thinking, by Temple Grandin, The Patterning Instinct, by Jeremy Lent