Weekly New Releases

“Desert Plant” (1965) is from Ruth Asawa: The Tamarind Prints, published as a gem-like accompaniment to the full career retrospective on view now at MoMA. Collecting the entire portfolio of 54 prints made by Asawa during a 1965 residency at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, which have never been published before as a complete series, this elegant 64-page hardcover has been produced in celebration of the artist’s 2026 centennial. “Each material has a nature of its own,” Asawa is quoted in the book, “and by combining it and putting it next to another material, you change or give personality to it without destroying either one.… It’s the same thing that you don’t change a person’s personality, but when you combine them with other people, other personalities, they take on another quality.… The intent is not to change them, but to bring out another part of them.”

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Reed Kelly, Zoe Friedman and George Kocis in conversation with Arthur Lubow on 'Rodney Smith: Photography between Real and Surreal'

Friday, November 7, from 6–8 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents a panel discussion on new release, 'Rodney Smith: Photography between Real and Surreal.' Photography critic and author Arthur Lubow will moderate a conversation between models Reed Kelly and Zoe Friedman and Staley-Wise Gallery director George Kocis. The conversation will be followed by a signing.

The Cooper Union presents 'Archigram: Making a Facsimile'

Tuesday, October 14, through Thursday, November 6, The Cooper Union presents an exhibition on the making of 'Archigram: The Magazine,' a complex and ambitious architectural publication—initiated by D.A.P. publishing and Designers & Books in February 2024—that would bring about the first full facsimile of one of the most formally inventive, conceptually daring and historically consequential small-press magazines of the postwar era.

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Sandy Skoglund with René Paul Barilleaux for the launch of 'Enchanting Nature'

Wednesday, November 12, from 6—8 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents a conversation with Sandy Skoglund to celebrate the publication of her new book, 'Enchanting Nature,' a playful and enthralling collection of the artist's signature unconventional dreamlike scenes and images. She will be in conversation with René Paul Barilleaux, followed by a signing.

Featured spreads are from new release The Hollywood History of Art, the newest collaboration between renowned film historian Sir Christopher Frayling and publisher Reel Art Press. Examining artists and artworks represented in mainstream cinema, this is both a scholarly deep-dive and an accessible gift book for lovers of both art and film. Across these particular pages, you see, at top, a publicity photo of Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 feature, Lust for Life, clutching van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887), across from the real thing. At center, original artworks and archival photographs related to Julie Taymor’s 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic, Frida, alongside shots of Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina recreating these scenes as Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And at bottom, Martin Scorsese photographed on set with Nick Nolte, in character as painter Lionel Dobie, in Life Lessons, the opening segment of New York Stories (1989).

Whether it’s Halloween or Day of the Dead that you celebrate, you can’t do better than Wes Lang: The Black Paintings, published by Heni. “Something grabbed me about the skull when I was in elementary school and it was so inexplicable to me,” Lang is quoted by essayist Wallace Ludel. “It was like they were talking to me immediately and I just couldn’t let it go. I don’t want to call it an obsession because it wasn’t unhealthy, but I had to keep exploring it and coming back to it.… I keep following it and it keeps providing new insights. The skulls in these works are so alive, there’s so much happening and they’re living and moving through these different worlds and scenes. I see them as fully functioning, realized beings.” Pictured here, “Coronation” (2023).

New from siglio, Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a book that defies all conventions—now, as it did in 1930, when it was first published by the French avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour. Both a memoir in cypher form and an act of resistance in keeping with the author’s life as an under-the-radar queer Surrealist and (eventually) imprisoned anti-fascist revolutionary, it is published here in the legendary, out-of-print 2007 Tate/MIT Press English translation by Susan de Muth. A remarkable feat of independent publishing at the ever-shifting border between art, literature and activism, it is not just food for thought, but a feast. “As soon as I get to know them, each one a ferocious beast, they speak out against my most precious treasure,” Cahun concludes the volume. “Against the unique unnamable. Against my indefinable reason for being. Nonetheless, I allow them the advantage. But their thirst for prey cannot be appeased; their hunger for my flesh is insatiable. They don’t do this with the least nastiness. It’s just too strong for me.
I feel them come at speed. A gesture, a word, a nothing—mostly indirect—reveals me to them. They gorge themselves on my tears. They don’t leave me even with the wherewithal to suffer. I only have the heart to weep when I have fled from them.
Dear Strangers, keep your distance: I have only you in the world.
‘And me? What about me?…’ someone shouts: myself.
My beautiful future, the unhoped for reserve, comes to me. Present already past, you who evade me, one moment more of respite…
Provided that it’s not too late.”

Photomontage by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, originally published in 1930 in Aveux non Avenus, now translated by Susan de Muth as Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) by Claude Cahun, published by siglio in 2025. Image courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Trust.

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