CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/22/2025

Enlightening 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' is Back in Stock!

Published to accompany the Hammer Museum’s groundbreaking and wildly popular recent Alice Coltrane exhibition, this beautifully designed and lovingly assembled clothbound hardcover with gold stamped lettering and tipped-on cover image sold out almost immediately. We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new printing! Pairing Coltrane’s work and cultural legacy with works by 19 contemporary artists—including Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and Jennie C. Jones, among others—Monument Eternal is an exquisitely considered and produced design object as well as a must-have volume of scholarship for collectors of books on art, music, Vedic religious practices or Black cultural history. Named after Coltrane’s iconic 1977 book (written in order to “fulfill a divine command”), Monument Eternal “calls forth her important autobiography and brings together a collective of contemporary Black American artists who are influenced by her cultural impact and production,” Erin Christovale writes. She concludes, “I believe Coltrane’s legacy resonates with so many, specifically with the group of artists included in this exhibition, because her story offers a self-paved path toward liberation and pursuit of the divine.”

Photo: Alice Coltrane, c. 1978. Courtesy of the John & Alice Coltrane Home.