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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 5/2/2026 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at CONTACT Photobook Fair, TorontoDATE 4/11/2026 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Eve Wood and Shana Nys Dambrot on 'Diane Arbus Goes Shopping'DATE 4/8/2026 Maï Lucas reception and book signing at Dashwood ProjectsDATE 4/5/2026 For Catherine Opie, "Without representation, there is no visibility"DATE 4/5/2026 In this season of rejuvenation, a meditation on loss and revivalDATE 4/1/2026 Hiroshi Sugimoto's terrestrial celestial masterpieceDATE 3/29/2026 Celebrating Women's History Month and Frida-mania in NYCDATE 3/27/2026 Gateways to other realms in 'Uman: After all the things'DATE 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 3/24/2026 Back in stock! 'Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules'DATE 3/23/2026 Head Hi presents a double-header book launch for 'We the Bacteria' and 'Sick Architecture'DATE 3/21/2026 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Eileen G’sell launching 'Lipstick'DATE 3/21/2026 The fearless self-portraiture of Frida Kahlo, timed for MoMA's Kahlo / Rivera show | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 4/5/2026 For Catherine Opie, "Without representation, there is no visibility"With a distinctly empathetic gaze, Catherine Opie’s Portraits series (1993–7) captures the vibrancy and humanity of her Queer community. Inspired by sixteenth-century painter Hans Holbein the Younger, Opie constructs a royal family of her friends to challenge normative views of gender and sexuality. Sitters are depicted frontally against a solid background. For Opie, the visual language of courtly portraiture offers a rhetoric of liberation: “There was an equality to [Holbein’s] paintings—they weren’t demigod portraits, they were just incredibly detailed and real.” It is testament to Opie’s eye for nuance and the trust she builds with her sitters that she brings out such psychological complexity. Opie's photography redefines portraiture, probing the complex questions of who we are, how we present ourselves and why representation matters. Portraiture has always been about “being seen”—and a collaboration between sitter and portraitist to this end—but Opie has re-evaluated it as inclusive, intimate and reciprocal. “Chloe” (1993) is reproduced from Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, published to accompany the eponymous exhibition on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, through May 31, 2026. The publication features more than 100 color images and a tactile quarter-bound cover, designed in close consultation with the artist. DATE 4/5/2026 In this season of rejuvenation, a meditation on loss and revivalFeatured spreads are from new release Still Life: A Photographer’s Journey Through Grief and Gardening, Jane Fulton Alt’s response to the sudden loss of her husband, whose garden she learned to tend from scratch as she moved through the stages of mourning. "I was never a gardener," she writes. "Then my husband died, leaving behind an extensive, newly planted native garden. His radical transformation of the green space around our home was stunning. He worked tirelessly and methodically as he pulled up our lawn and seeded a sanctuary. In the autumn of his life, he planted a garden for the future. I asked him one day, 'When you are gone, who is going to take care of these gardens?' He just looked at me and smiled. Little did I know these gardens were to be the greatest gift he could have given to me. The garden and the camera have been loyal and constant companions, a potent combination in adjusting to this new life. These photographs and thoughts represent the start of my journey." DATE 4/1/2026 Hiroshi Sugimoto's terrestrial celestial masterpieceHiroshi Sugimoto is known throughout the world for his mastery in photography and architecture. But fewer people know that he has long been a collector (and once a dealer) of Japanese antiquities, in addition to practicing as a sculptor and maker in the performing arts. In 2009, he purchased a twelve acre citrus grove overlooking Sagami Bay on the coast of Odawara, Japan, and thereafter began the meticulous design and planning of his terrestrial celestial masterpiece, Enoura Observatory. In this new book designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, Sugimoto documents his journey, in context of his life as an artist, in a remarkably personal, genuine and subtly humorous style that is a pleasure to read. Pictured here, the rising sun seen through the stone torii gate of the Uchōten Tea House. Sugimoto had it built to greet the spring equinox. |
