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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 5/19/2026 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Pieter Henket and Justin Gaspar in conversation for the launch of 'Birds of Mexico City'DATE 5/7/2026 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2026 ICP Photobook FestDATE 5/3/2026 Craftsmanship, creativity, change: 'Fashioning Chinese Women' captures twentieth-century fluxDATE 5/2/2026 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller launching 'Tracy Hills'DATE 5/2/2026 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at CONTACT Photobook Fair, TorontoDATE 5/1/2026 'Mathew Wong: Interiors' — radiating the light of dreamsDATE 4/27/2026 Internal lyrical motives in Frida Kahlo’s ’Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair’DATE 4/25/2026 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Derek McCormack for the LA launch of 'The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide'DATE 4/24/2026 Lost City Books presents Yumna Al-Arashi and Farrah Skeiky on 'Aisha'DATE 4/23/2026 Garden passion and the passing of timeDATE 4/21/2026 ‘Carol Bove’ is new from Guggenheim New YorkDATE 4/20/2026 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chris Wiley, Nan Goldin, and Robert Swope on 'Michel Hurst: Órale'DATE 4/20/2026 Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore presents Jane Fulton Alt, Susan Page Tillett and James Baraz on 'Still Life' | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/19/2026Rizzoli Bookstore presents Pieter Henket and Justin Gaspar in conversation for the launch of 'Birds of Mexico City'Tuesday, May 19, at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents a conversation between photographer Pieter Henket and editor Justin Gaspar to celebrate Henket's new book, 'Birds of Mexico City,' a collection of beautiful portraits of young people in Mexico City, interweaving themes of gender, sexuality, heritage and self-expression. The talk will be followed by a signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/7/2026Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2026 ICP Photobook FestJoin us Thursday, May 7, from 6–9 PM, for the VIP Preview of the ICP Photobook Fest and come back Friday through Sunday to dive deeper into our very best new, classic and forthcoming photobooks.  JACK TEEHAN | DATE 5/3/2026Craftsmanship, creativity, change: 'Fashioning Chinese Women' captures twentieth-century fluxDespite considerable cultural significance, the period of dynamic transformation from dynastic to republican rule in Chinese fashion has long been overlooked by Western art museums. New release Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity—published to accompany the eponymous LACMA exhibition opening in June—seeks to demystify and redefine the patrimony of transnational Chinese communities through a material exploration of the attire of a “society in flux.” The garments from this corpus come via a 2020 donation from Berkeley-based artist Chere Lai Mah, whose familial collection of twentieth-century Chinese women’s clothing reflects the changing social mores and increased influence of Western culture during the transition from late Qing dynasty up to the Cultural Revolution. Evolving at an unprecedented speed, fashion during this period, particularly women’s clothing, became a barometer of social norms, and was central to passionate debates regarding the female body and women’s roles—both highly contested issues related to a new Chinese modernity and national identity. Consumer illustrations, such as the February 1935 cover of Liangyou (The Young Companion) magazine, shown here, depict young women sporting this new style while engaging in modern activities, such as riding bicycles or playing tennis. These images evince a fresh sense of physical autonomy and vividly express the emerging feminist sentiment that advocated for the liberation of women from their traditional domestic roles. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/2/2026Join Artbook | D.A.P. at CONTACT Photobook Fair, TorontoSaturday, May 2, from 11 AM–5 PM, please join us for the fifth edition of Toronto's CONTACT Photobook Fair, bringing together independent publishers and leading contemporary photographers from around the world to present newly released publications.
 LACY SOTO | DATE 5/2/2026Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller launching their publication, 'Tracy Hills'Saturday, May 2, at 3 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller in conversation with Daniella Vujovic for the launch of their publication, 'Tracy Hills.' Q & A, followed by a signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/1/2026'Mathew Wong: Interiors' — radiating the light of dreams“Vertigo” (2019) is reproduced from new release Matthew Wong: Interiors, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, opening next week at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi to coincide with the 2026 Venice Biennale. “Many of Wong’s interiors mark time,” Nancy Spector writes in the catalog, published by The Matthew Wong Foundation. “Apparently, he painted furiously, on occasion making up to three works per day, so there could conceivably be morning, afternoon and evening canvases. Like the Impressionists—another central source for his practice—the artist was keenly aware of the changing effects of light throughout the day and how that could impact the optical effects of color. But his paintings were created indoors, a product of the imagination. The light described is thus an inner light, the kind that radiates in one’s dreams.”Matthew Wong. VERTIGO, 2019. Oil on canvas. 36 x 30 in. / 91.4 x 76.2 cm. © 2026 Matthew Wong Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Alex Yudzon.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/27/2026Internal lyrical motives in Frida Kahlo’s ’Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair’On view through September 12, 2026, the MoMA blockbuster Frida and Diego: The Last Dream showcases works by two titans of twentieth-century art, equally known for their passionate but tumultuous relationship. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera, features a set design by Jon Bausor, who designed the opera El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, scheduled to open May 14 in New York. One of the central works of art in the MoMA show is Kahlo’s iconic “Self-Portrait witih Cropped Hair,” painted in 1940 in the wake of the artist couple’s infamous divorce. It is a painting unlike any other by Kahlo, and it is the subject of a new, expanded hardcover edition of Jodi Roberts’ classic study, Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair—featuring 40 reproductions, including the artist’s most celebrated self-portraits, additional illustrations and photographs—and a die-cut front cover. “Her self-portraiture, the genre she favored above all others, seems to divulge the subjective experience of an artist keenly attuned to her deepest psychological urges and core emotional truths,” Roberts writes. “Kahlo insisted that her paintings flowed from an interior source: ‘My work consisted of eliminating everything that did not come from the internal lyrical motives that impelled me to paint.’” CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/25/2026Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Derek McCormack and Bruce Hainley for the LA launch of 'The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide'Saturday, April 25, at 3 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents 'The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide' author Derek McCormack in conversation with critic, writer and poet Bruce Hainley. A jewelry collection designed for punk vampires in attendance at the Grand Ole Opry, McCormack's first foray into art and object-making is characteristically both absurd and obscene! Q & A, followed by a signing. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/24/2026Lost City Books presents Yumna Al-Arashi and Farrah Skeiky on 'Aisha'Friday, April 24, from 7–8 PM, Lost City Books presents the Washington DC launch of Arab American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's 'Aisha,' published by Edition Patrick Frey. Al-Arashi returns to her hometown for this enlightening conversation with fellow Arab American photographer and creative director Farrah Skeiky. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/23/2026Garden passion and the passing of timeThis month, as delicate greens shoot through the earth and cherry blossom petals cover the ground, we’ve gathered our Spring 2026 Staff Picks for Gardeners and lovers of all things botanical. Hilary Pecis’ "Hopie in the Garden" (2021) is from new release Gardens and Imagination: Framing Nature in Art, published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at MFA Boston. Gathering artistic representations of gardens spanning from ancient Egyptian serving vessels to contemporary Diné photography, this 6.75 x 7.75-inch clothbound volume features 150 color reproductions and a tipped-on cover image. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/21/2026‘Carol Bove’ is new from Guggenheim New YorkOffenbach Barcarolle (2019) is reproduced from Carol Bove, the Guggenheim Museum’s slip-cased, two-volume catalog to the artist’s current retrospective, on view in the rotunda through August 2, 2026. Published to accompany the first museum survey of Bove’s multidisciplinary work, volume one is a catalog of scholarly essays with supplementary visual material, while volume two is an artist’s book of details and collaged elements, conceived by Bove. Beyond this already generous presentation, each book features a unique diamond-shaped paper element, hand-cut by the artist, attached to the slipcase beneath a die-cut void. Of the “collage sculptures,” curator Katherine Brinson writes, “Channeling the romantic connotations of the runi, the hunks of scrap function as gestural marks, arranged by the artist in unfurling, almost ecstatic gestures that evoke the winged Nike of Samothrace or the outflung energy of Baroque marble figures. Imprinted by their onerous life in the world, the rusted steel sheaves selected by Bove index the toll of labor and the passage of time.” CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/20/2026Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chris Wiley, Nan Goldin, and Robert Swope on 'Michel Hurst: Órale'Monday, April 20, at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents a conversation with Chris Wiley, Nan Goldin and Robert Swope to celebrate the debut book of late photographer Michel Hurst, 'Órale: Love and Death in Mexico City,' a collection of photographs made in and around his adopted home of Mexico City over a period of eight years.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/20/2026Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore presents Jane Fulton Alt, Susan Page Tillett and James Baraz on 'Still Life'Monday, April 20, from 7–8:30 PM, Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore presents the Berkeley, California, launch of Jane Fulton Alt's new book, 'Still Life: A Photographer’s Journey Through Grief and Gardening,' published by MW Editions. In conversation with Susan Page Tillett and James Baraz, the author will discuss how her late husband’s unfinished native garden was central to discovering the interconnectedness with all life. A signing will follow the conversation. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/19/2026Morbid Anatomy presents 'Divine Color' author Laura Weinstein on 'Gods in Living Color: Hindu Devotional Lithographs and the Birth of Modern Indian Visual Culture'Sunday, April 19, from 3–4 PM EST, Morbid Anatomy presents a free online talk with MFA Boston curator Laura Weinstein, to explore a transformative yet often overlooked chapter in South Asian art history: the explosion of popular devotional art through lithographic printing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata).  LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 4/18/2026Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a Zine-Making Workshop with Lauren Simkin BerkeSaturday, April 18, from 2–3 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a zine-making workshop with educator and artist Lauren Simkin Berke, author of the forthcoming book, 'Zine Making and Bookbinding: A Beginner’s Guide in 25 Projects.' This event will take place during the MoMA PS1 Block Party, which runs all day, 10 AM–6 PM. JACK TEEHAN | DATE 4/17/2026Watershed moments in Australian Aboriginal modernismDrawn exclusively from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Stars We Do Not See offers a rare opportunity to experience some of the most significant examples of modern and contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Charting watershed moments in Indigenous art from the late nineteenth century to the present, this exhibition reveals a rich history of creativity that far predates colonial contact. Dhambit Munuŋgurr’s bark painting Djirikitj-Wop! (2020) is emblematic of the innovations of contemporary aboriginal artists. It is customary that artists from Munuŋgurr’s community only paint using ochres from their ancestral lands, but after a 2005 car crash, with community experts agreeing she could no longer be expected to grind traditional ochres used for bark painting because of limited dexterity in her right hand, Munuŋgurr began working in acrylic paint. Starting with tones of red, orange and yellow, reminiscent of natural ochre, Mununggurr came to her now famous bright blue acrylic in 2019. Depicted in this artwork is djirikitj, the quail, who in Ancestral times picked up a burning twig from a fire and flew away with it, dropping it at a paperbark swamp to symbolize sacred fire, rebirth and renewal—a testament to the resiliency of aboriginal creativity. Published to accompany the exhibition opening at the Denver Art Museum this weekend, The Stars We Do Not See features a glossary of Indigenous Australian language terms, a 5000-word essay on the history of Indigenous Art in Australia, and texts on more than 150 pivotal First Nations works of art.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/17/2026Spoonbill Books presents 'Aisha' author Yumna Al-Arashi in conversation with Céline SemaanFriday, April 17, from 6–8 PM, Spoonbill Books presents Arab-American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi in conversation with Lebanese-Canadian designer, writer, speaker and advocate Céline Semaan in celebration of Al-Arashi's recent photography book, 'Aisha,' published by Edition Patrick Frey.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/16/2026'The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art'—alive and in the present“For many First Nations people, both in Australia and around the world, the past is not something distant or inaccessible,” curator and editor Myles Russell-Cook writes in new release, The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art; “instead, it is intricately woven into our present reality. Time is a cycle in which interactions within Ancestral realms continue to influence the culture of the contemporary era. This understanding allows Indigenous peoples to maintain a deep connection with heritage and tradition, ensuring that history remains very much alive and in the present.” Published to accompany the major traveling exhibition of Australian Indigenous art that opens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in October 2025, this 320-page hardcover spans from the late nineteenth century to today, and includes more than 200 artworks. Featuring striking black paper edges and a fold-out map of Indigenous Australia at the back, it reproduces work by more than 130 artists, including Wakartu Cory Surprise, Alik Tipoti and Kuruwarriyingathi Bijarrb Paula Paul, whose work is shown in detail here, from top to bottom.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/14/2026The essential companion to MoMA's monumental 'Marcel Duchamp'Last week, MoMA’s highly-anticipated Marcel Duchamp survey opened at last, and the echoes have not ceased to reverberate throughout the city and the international art world—with no end in sight. The first North American retrospective of the artist’s work in more than fifty years—featuring the world’s largest collection of Duchamp’s work—this historic exhibition travels to Philadelphia in the fall, where iconic pieces like Fountain (1950 replica, after a lost 1917 original), featured here, will reunite with several works that are too delicate or entrenched to be moved, including the Large Glass, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915–1923) and the haunting (perhaps haunted) assemblage, Étant donnés (1946–1966). Certainly, this is a show that many art lovers will want to see more than once. We congratulate the curators, Anne Tempken and Michelle Kuo from MoMA and Matthew Affron from the PMA. The full breadth of their work, their research and their scholarship can perhaps only be appreciated in the definitive exhibition catalog, featuring 1000 color reproductions over 360 pages. LACY SOTO | DATE 4/11/2026Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Eve Wood and Shana Nys Dambrot on 'Diane Arbus Goes Shopping'Saturday, April 11 at 3 PM PST, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents 'Diane Arbus Goes Shopping'—Eve Wood's four-part collection of poetry illustrated with her thirty-year signature series of darkly humorous drawings and paintings—new from DoppelHouse Press & Smart Art Press. A conversation between Wood and Shana Nys Dambrot will be followed by a book signing.CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/11/2026A long lost archive documenting life at the Chelsea Hotel, 1969–71
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