ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 2/15/2025 Palm Springs Modernism Week presents Christopher Rawlins on 'Fire Island Modernist,' new editionDATE 2/15/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland launching 'The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism'DATE 2/13/2025 Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'DATE 2/12/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/11/2025 Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'DATE 2/9/2025 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!DATE 2/7/2025 CARA presents Simone Fattal launching her new monograph in conversation with Negar AzimiDATE 2/5/2025 A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'DATE 2/2/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York 2025DATE 2/1/2025 Celebrate Black History Month, 2025 | IMAGE GALLERY![]() DATE 2/9/2025 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!Published to accompany the Hammer Museum’s highly anticipated exhibition on view through May 4, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is out now and going fast. Pairing Coltrane’s work and cultural legacy with works by 19 contemporary artists—including Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and Jennie C. Jones, among others—this clothbound hardcover with tipped-on cover image 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. After the immeasurable grief from the loss of her husband John and son John Jr., who died in an accident at the age of seventeen, Coltrane actively took on the mourning processes, knowing that beyond grief there is transcendence. Her intimate knowledge of this process and her understanding of a higher power fostered a cultural output that still remains to be fully understood.”Photo: Alice Coltrane, c. 1978. Courtesy of the John & Alice Coltrane Home. ![]() DATE 2/5/2025 A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'“There is magic everywhere if you stop and look and listen. … Everything is strange. I think it’s a scream we’re here at all … don’t you?” So the under-published midcentury Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie is quoted in hot new release, The Whole World is a Mystery, published to accompany the Abercrombie retrospective on view now at the Carnegie Museum of Art, en route to Colby College Museum of Art and Milwaulkee Art Museum through July 2026. Featured image is Demolition Doors (1964).![]() DATE 2/1/2025 A memorable first monograph from Nydia BlasNew from the photobook lover-savants of Image Text Ithaca Press, Love, You Came from Greatness is the first major monograph on rising photographer, community organizer and Atlanta-based educator Nydia Blas. Born in Ithaca, New York, Blas returned to her hometown to explore her past and present roots, going back more than a century. This quietly profound artist’s book blends new and archival photographs to produce a meaningful portrait over generations. “It is so important to keep saying that there is power in looking, and that your viewpoint is really important,” Blas is quoted. “And that what you have to say is really important. For Black women, we’ve learned not to take charge or not to think that the things that we are making, or the things that we have to say, are important. So, there’s this really special authority that happens when you have a camera because you’re in charge, you’re the boss, you’re the one in control.” The ingenious production of the book is also worth noting. Perfect-bound with silkscreen on gold paper and cloth-wrapped boards, it is all and only its own. Pictured here, “Ithaca, New York, 2013. Rosario Williams, my daughter.” |