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The Artbook Holiday Gift Guide, 2021

Check out our list of hand-picked staff favorites for everyone on your list—from the hardcore art lover to the film buff, photographer, musicologist or gardener!

FROM THE BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/8/2021

SFAI presents the launch of Jordan Stein's 'Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo's Estocada and Other Pieces'

Wednesday, December 8 at 6:30 PM PST, the San Francisco Art Institute and Soberscove Press present a reading, screening and celebration marking the publication of Jordan Stein's new book, 'Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo's Estocada and Other Pieces.

LACY SOTO | DATE 12/11/2021

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore & Aperture present a book launch and signing with photographer Philip Montgomery for 'American Mirror'

Saturday, December 11 at 3 PM PST | 6 PM EST, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore and Aperture present the launch of 'American Mirror,' both inside the Bookstore and live-streamed on Instagram @artbookhwla. Photographer Philip Montgomery will present the book in discussion with actor, producer, director, inventor and author Jamie Lee Curtis, followed by a signing.

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/14/2021

Cooper Hewitt presents 'The Architecture of Health,' a Virtual Talk with Michael Murphy and Michael Kimmelman

Tuesday, December 14 at 6PM EST, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, presents a virtual book talk with 'The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity' author Michael Murphy, Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, in conversation with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for 'The New York Times.'

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/30/2020

See Book Trailers, Artist and Author Talks and Flip-Through Videos on our YouTube Channel!

At least the pandemic's been good for one thing! Over the past two years, we've steadily been adding videos to our YouTube Channel, which now features dozens of book trailers from our publishers, artist and author talks and flip-through videos from our in-house team.

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/23/2021

Read an excerpt from 'The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes'

This week, we're highlighting some recommended reading from 'The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes,' the first comprehensive selection of writings by the noted British art theorist known for his synthesis of aesthetics and psychoanalysis. The product of more than a decade of devout research by editor Thomas Evans, it is the first broad introduction in almost half a century.

ARTBOOK D.A.P. CATALOG

Find museum exhibition catalogues, art and photography monographs, artist's books and photo books at ARTBOOK.COM, alongside titles on architecture, design, urban studies, visual culture, and experimental writing. We are a division of Distributed Art Publishers, the world's largest distributor of art books and museum exhibition catalogues. D.A.P. is the exclusive trade representative of leading museums and international art and photography book publishers.

CURATED ART LIBRARIES

Art History, Architecture, and Photography Book Libraries

A Relational Aesthetics Bookshelf

A Sustainable Design Bookshelf

Black Art & Culture Monographs, Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Artist's Books, Photo Books and Art Surveys

Collage & Photomontage Library

Contemporary Figurative Painting

Contemporary Sculpture Library

Danish Design and Architecture Books:
Ten Key Themes in Danish Design

History of Photography Reference Books

Modern and Contemporary Drawing

Curatorial Essays, Monographs and Museum Exhibition Catalogues by Curator

Superb 400-page 'Afro-Atlantic Histories' is NEW from DelMonico Books and Museo de Arte de São Paolo

"Gene" (1970), by Jamaican artist and religious leader Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds (1911–1989), is reproduced from Afro-Atlantic Histories, published to accompany the exhibition currently on view at MFA Houston, en route to the NGADC and LACMA in 2022 and 2023. In addition to being one of our Staff Pick Holiday Gift Books of 2021, this monumental, panoramic, 400-page survey spanning the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries is also one of the coolest looking books on our list, period, thanks to vivid graphic design by Paula Tinoco at Estúdio Campo, São Paulo, where the originating museum, MASP, is located. This is also one of Artforum's Best Books of 2021, an honor we don’t take lightly. Joan Kee writes, "Borrowing from Paul Gilroy’s construct of a 'Black Atlantic' while also recognizing slavery’s afterlives, Afro-Atlantic Histories, raises the stakes of so-called global modernism by boldly setting forth the conditions of an art history that is for, rather than against, a global majority—a majority with which existing institutional structures have only just begun to reckon."

Kaya Press

Publisher of Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name, the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Kaya Press is an independent not-for-profit publisher of innovative fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from the Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas. Kaya presents books that feature unique voices, new and alternative perspectives, accomplished experimental writing, and beautiful, thoughtful book design. Publishers Weekly calls Last of Her Name an "impressive debut… Lok is an expert at peeking into the souls of those who have been displaced or disregarded… this touching collection is easy to pick up and hard to put down.'

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

Located at Hauser & Wirth LA in the historic arts district of downtown Los Angeles, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents a wide selection of current publications on contemporary art and the humanities to contextualize art practice and criticism in unexpected and compelling ways. By reflecting cultural trends worldwide and complimenting Hauser & Wirth's exhibitions, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore is vibrant source for cutting-edge contemporary art publications. Artbook’s extensive event program features book signings, readings, screenings, discussions and experimental talks by artists, curators, performers and critics, serving as a hub for current culture.