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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First Sight2025 Gift GuidesFeatured Image ArchiveEvents ArchiveDATE 3/25/2026 The Strand presents George Condo in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni and Dakis Joannou for the launch of 'The Mad and the Lonely'DATE 3/19/2026 AIGA presents '50 Books | 50 Covers: The Exhibition' at Pratt Institute, BrooklynDATE 3/18/2026 Westweek 2026 kicks off with Christopher Rawlins on Fire Island and the Modernist Beach House: Its Past, Present and FutureDATE 3/15/2026 Artbook at MoMA PS1 presents Jin Mei and Chang Yuchen launching 'Jin Mei: jm'DATE 3/14/2026 Artbook at MoMA PS1 presents J. Lester Feder and Miriam Elder in conversation for the launch of 'The Queer Face of War'DATE 3/13/2026 McNally Jackson presents Oluremi C. Onabanjo in conversation with Air Afrique on 'Ideas of Africa'DATE 3/11/2026 KAWS: FAMILY is back in stock!DATE 3/9/2026 Obedience only to inspiration in 'Agnes Martin: On Beauty'DATE 3/8/2026 Textile testimony in 'Women Affected by Dams: Embroidering Our Rights'DATE 3/5/2026 Deeply strange, and deeply sympathetic: MarisolDATE 3/4/2026 Revolutionary portraiture in 'Alice Neel: I Am the Century'DATE 3/1/2026 May all your weeds be wildflowers: Staff Picks for Gardeners, 2026DATE 3/1/2026 Women's History Month Staff Picks, 2026 | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 3/11/2026 KAWS: FAMILY is back in stock!Published to accompany the exhibition currently on view at SFMOMA, KAWS: FAMILY is back in stock at last. Organized thematically around the 2021 artwork featured on the cover of the book—also titled FAMILY—the exhibition includes not only paintings and sculpture, but drawings and select products that examine the complex and often dark filial and childhood relationships and circumstances that are at the center of human experience. Separated (2021), for example, was created when the artist “heard about families being separated at the border, with children being separated from their parents as they were trying to cross over from Mexico. There was this famous image in the paper of a girl sitting in a similar pose. As someone who has kids, I was devastated at the thought of that situation.” DATE 3/9/2026 Obedience only to inspiration in 'Agnes Martin: On Beauty'Featured spreads are from Agnes Martin: On Beauty, Pace Publishing’s elegant new collection of the artist’s meditations on life, work, solitude and silence, which have influenced generations of painters. Featuring several key paintings, including debossed front and back cover images, the book is as poetic, airy and austere as Martin’s work itself. “Hold fast to your life, to beauty and happiness and inspiration, and to obedience to inspiration,” she writes in The Current of the River of Life Moves Us. “Do not imitate others or seek advice anywhere except from your own mind. No one can help you. No one knows what your life should be. No one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created.” DATE 3/8/2026 Textile testimony in 'Women Affected by Dams: Embroidering Our Rights'Created by a consortium of Brazilian women united under the Coletivo Nacional de Mulheres do Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) umbrella, arpilleras—Spanish for burlap, or scraps of fabric embroidered on jute—became a language of female agency during the Pinochet regime. Primarily created by mothers, wives and relatives of political prisoners, these works depict scenes of everyday life, repression and the struggle for rights. This 2019 arpillera, titled Privatização que mata [Privatization That Kills] and produced by women from the state of Pará, depicts a scene of chaos. A large green triangle dominates half the composition, an oblique reference to the Brazilian mining company Vale, infamous for two catastrophic dam failures: Mariana, in 2015, and Brumadinho, in 2019. Embroidered on top of the logo is the MAB slogan “O lucro não vale a vida [Profit is not worth life].” Blood drips off of the logo, down to the earth below, where a post-traumatic maelstrom plays out in the mud. A helicopter hovers above, searching for missing bodies among the scene of devastation. Groups of protestors surround the appliqué, holding placards featuring messages such as “LUTO e RESISTENCIA” to express their outrage and demands for justice. “For many people, the arpillera may seem like just a piece of art to hang on the wall. For us, the political significance of this textile testimony lies in the organization of women, in the fight for their rights and in the political proposition—of dreams, of utopias, of what we long for. It’s a denunciation, but it’s also a project of hope,” writes Daiane Höhn, a MAB activist. |
