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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 3/22/2026 ‘Tom Lloyd’ closes at Studio Museum this weekDATE 3/21/2026 The fearless self-portraiture of Frida Kahlo, timed for MoMA's Kahlo / Rivera showDATE 3/21/2026 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Eileen G’sell launching 'Lipstick'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 discussing Fire Island and the Modernist Beach HouseDATE 3/17/2026 A sticker book of vintage luggage labels from the golden age of travelDATE 3/17/2026 Sophie Calle finishes the unfinishedDATE 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' | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 3/22/2026 ‘Tom Lloyd’ closes at Studio Museum this weekFeatured image, of Tom Lloyd on the opening night of his solo show Electronic Refractions II—the inaugural exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1968—is from Tom Lloyd, the exhibition catalog to the museum’s current exhibition, which closes March 22 to great critical acclaim. “An early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium, Tom Lloyd developed a highly experimental and technologically advanced art practice in the 1960s that set him apart from many of his fellow artists,” curator Connie H. Choi writes. “Employing a purposely limited but defined vocabulary of colors, forms, and shapes, Lloyd challenged not only understandings of art at the time but, perhaps more important, the definition of art made by Black artists. He thereby promoted a relationship between abstraction and blackness that was greatly debated during the 1960s, and one that continues to animate conversations around artistic practices.” DATE 3/21/2026 The fearless self-portraiture of Frida Kahlo, timed for MoMA's Kahlo / Rivera showMy Grandparents, My Parents, and I (1936) illustrates the transnational roots of Frida Kahlo’s family tree. Kahlo’s maternal grandparents, of mixed Indigenous and Spanish descent, are projected above the Mexican mountain ranges while her German paternal grandparents float over the Atlantic Ocean. Kahlo painted this work a year after Nazi Germany enforced the Nuremberg Race Laws—in effect stripping German Jews of their civil rights and prohibiting interracial marriage—falsely substantiated by a genealogical chart that determined who was Jewish according to bloodlines. Kahlo’s interpretation of a family tree is a counter to such violent, supremacist ideas. Today, as we see families ripped apart due to their national origin, Kahlo’s work takes on a profound new dimension as a denunciation of state violence and imposed borders. My Grandparents, My Parents, and I is reproduced from Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, forthcoming from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to accompany Frida and Diego: The Last Dream, on view at MoMA from March 21 through September 12, 2026. This expanded hardcover edition of the MoMA classic includes additional illustrations and photographs, and features a die-cut front cover. DATE 3/17/2026 A sticker book of vintage luggage labels from the golden age of travelThis week, Letterform Archive releases a book like no other on our list. A sticker book collecting 330 vintage luggage labels from the golden age of travel, spanning from 1920 to 1970, today, “these small relics of early twentieth-century wanderlust” recall steamer trunks and intercontinental voyages by ocean liner and sleeper train. “The luggage label collection at Letterform Archive in San Francisco numbers in the thousands,” the editors write. “Many of its specimens came from a local source: San Francisco’s own historic Huntington Hotel, a luxury accommodation first opened in 1922, where a binder of treasured labels was assembled by a concierge whose name has also slipped from record. Acquired by the Archive as examples of appealing type and lettering from across the globe, these pieces of print ephemera attest to advertising’s early heyday, when stunning illustration, inventive letterforms and novel color printing made every surface—no matter how small—a vehicle for transport to a far-off land, if only in the imagination.” |
