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David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College
By Ed Lin.

Shortlisted for CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2021

“You’re not allowed to have a girlfriend until college,” my mother warned. “And you’d better get into an Ivy League school!”

In David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030627
US $18.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/28/2020 In stock

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists
Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden.

A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick

This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the >>more

D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884590
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/22/2020 In stock

Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
Edited with text by Darby English, Charlotte Barat. Text by Mabel O. Wilson, et al.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019

This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art is the first substantial exploration of MoMA’s >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450349
US $65.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 488 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock

Last of Her Name
By Mimi Lok.

Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030610
US $16.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
Introduction by Jacqueline Francis, Stephen G. Hall. Foreword by David Adjaye. Contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and photographs (taken by >>more

Redstone Press
ISBN 9781942884538
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Flexi, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
Edited by Liz Munsell, Greg Tate. Text by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, Carlo McCormick.

In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468713
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 05/05/2020 In stock

Get Out
By Jordan Peele. Text by Tananarive Due.

A New York Times 2019 holiday gift guide pick

Jordan Peele’s powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and >>more

Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753286
US $19.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 224 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
By Bo-Young Kim. Edited with afterword by Sunyoung Park. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Joungmin Lee Comfort.

Longlisted for National Book Award in Translated Literature, 2021

Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030719
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/25/2021 Out of stock

Basquiat's "Defacement"
Text by Chaédria LaBouvier, Nancy Spector, J. Faith Almiron, Greg Tate. Contributions by Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Scharf, Fred Braithwaite, Michelle Shocked, et al.

Jean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring’s studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police >>more

Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892075485
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock

Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, Sam Contis, Jennifer Greenhill, Lauren Kroiz, Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips, Wendy Red Star, Christina Sharpe, Robert Slifkin, Rebecca Solnit, Tess Taylor.

Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’... can be fortified by words.” Though Lange's career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451049
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 75 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
Edited with text by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson. Preface by Robin D. G. Kelley. Text by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Adrienne Brown, Sekou Cooke, Milton S. F. Curry, J. Yolande Daniels, Charles L. Davis II, Felecia Davis, Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Aruna D’Souza, Ifeoma Ebo, Tonya M. Foster, Mario Gooden, Dianne Harris, Walter J. Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, Justin Garrett Moore, David Naguib Pellow, Jennifer Newsom, Audrey Petty, Christina Sharpe, Carla Shedd, Roberta Washington, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Amanda Williams. Photographic portfolio by David Hartt.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451148
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2021 In stock

The Soul of a Nation Reader
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Allie Biswas. Afterword by Zoé Whitley.

A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick

What is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this >>more

Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366325
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 628 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 In stock

Hokusai’s Landscapes
Text by Sarah E. Thompson.

The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works—the color woodblock landscape prints issued in series—were >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468669
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock

Love, Icebox
Edited with text by Laura Kuhn. Photography by Emily Martin.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019

These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the >>more

The John Cage Trust
ISBN 9781942884385
US $24.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock

The Sleeve Should Be Illegal
Edited by Michaelyn Mitchell. Foreword by Adam Gopnik. Preface by Ian Wardropper.

A cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond, The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the Western tradition—among them Bellini, Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Whistler—installed in >>more

DelMonico Books/The Frick Collection
ISBN 9781942884798
US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2021 In stock

The Image of Whiteness
Edited with text by Daniel C. Blight. Interviews with David Roediger, George Yancy, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Claudia Rankine.

From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary “white savior” social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, >>more

SPBH Editions/Art on the Underground
ISBN 9781999814496
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 204 pgs / 52 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Out of stock

The New Woman Behind the Camera
Edited with text by Andrea Nelson. Foreword by Kaywin Feldman. Preface by Andrea Nelson & Mia Fineman. Text by Elizabeth Cronin, Mila Ganeva, Kristen Gresh, Elizabeth Otto, Kim Sichel.

During the 1920s the New Woman was easy to recognize but hard to define. Hair bobbed and fashionably dressed, this iconic figure of modernity was everywhere, splashed across magazine pages or projected on the silver >>more

National Gallery of Art
ISBN 9781942884743
US $60.00 CAN $84.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 288 pgs / 8 color / 269 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/10/2020 In stock

Luchita Hurtado
Introduction and interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Afterword by Manuela Wirth. Edited by Karen Marta.

Over the course of her long and rich life, Venezuelan-born American painter Luchita Hurtado created a stunning body of work that only received the widespread attention it deserves toward the end of her life. In >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915609
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock

In Search of African American Space
Edited with text by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone. Foreword by Tina M. Campt. Text by Sara Caples, Radiclani Clytus, Yolande Daniels, Ann Holder, Everardo Jefferson, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Marisa Williamson.

Richly illustrated with vintage adverts, maps, posters and architectural plans, and organized thematically, this anthology, edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff at the Pratt Institute in New York, is divided into three sections. The >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786338
US $30.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock

Félix Vallotton
Text by Dita Amory, Philippe Büttner, Ann Dumas, Patrick McGuinness, Katia Poletti, Christian Rümelin, Belinda Thomson.

By the end of the 19th century, Paris was the unrivaled capital of the Western art world. Impressionism had transformed the visual arts and post-impressionism was flourishing in its wake; new boulevards and parks had >>more

Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520046
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 184 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock

AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
Edited by Jeffreen Hayes. Foreword by Chana Sheldon. Text by Leslie Guy.

A Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a group of five young Black artists. Today, it is >>more

Gregory Miller/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
ISBN 9781941366301
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/05/2021 In stock

Landscape Painting Now
Edited by Todd Bradway. Text by Barry Schwabsky. Contributions by Susan A. Van Scoy, Robert R. Shane, Louise Sørensen.

Although the fact may be surprising to some, landscape painting is positively thriving in the 21st century—indeed, the genre has arguably never felt as vital as it does today. The reasons why, if speculative, surely >>more

D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884262
US $55.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 10.25 in. / 368 pgs / 420 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock

Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Edited with text by Anita Haldemann. Foreword by Kara Walker. Text by Maurice Berger, Aria Dean.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021

This gorgeous 600-page volume, with a printed cloth-over-paper binding, provides an exciting opportunity to delve into the creative process of Kara Walker, one of the >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645574
US $65.00 CAN $91.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 600 pgs / 722 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock

Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
Text by David Dawson, Joseph Koerner, Jasper Sharp, Sebastian Smee.

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them “revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless.” It was advice that the artist >>more

Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520060
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 12/03/2019 In stock

Raphael
Edited by Marzia Faietti & Matteo Lafranconi.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020

On the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the Uffizi in Florence has assembled one of the world’s most ambitious exhibitions to honor the High Renaissance >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857243092
US $65.00 CAN $92.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 544 pgs / 464 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock

Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde
Edited with text by Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, Philippe Peltier. Text by Cécile Bargues, Yaelle Biro, Anna Blaha, Megan Fontanella, Claudine Grammont, Joan U. Halperin, Charlotte Hellman, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Patricia Leighten, Léa Saint-Raymond, Élodie Vaudry, Marnin Young.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020

“It would not be a commonplace portrait at all, but a carefully composed picture, with very carefully arranged colors and lines. A rhythmic and angular >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451018
US $65.00 CAN $92.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 228 color.
Pub Date: 05/05/2020 In stock

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
Edited with text by Isabella Maidment, Andrea Schlieker. Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
A New York Times critics' pick
A Publishers Weekly 2020 holiday gift guide pick

Taking inspiration from the techniques of historic European portraiture, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings could almost >>more

D.A.P./Tate
ISBN 9781942884651
US $55.00 CAN $76.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 12/08/2020 Out of stock

Hayao Miyazaki
By Jessica Niebel. Foreword by Toshio Suzuki. Text by Pete Docter, Daniel Kothenschulte.

A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick

For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences of all ages. His animated films, often featuring children navigating unfamiliar and challenging worlds, offer timeless explorations >>more

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781942884811
US $55.00 CAN $74.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 288 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock

Hilma af Klint: Visionary
Edited by Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage, Margaret Ax:son. Introduction by Daniel Birnbaum. Text by Julia Voss, Tracey Bashkoff, Isaac Lubelsky, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Marco Pasi.

The 2018 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, introduced the general public to the abstract mystical masterpieces of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Based on >>more

Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789163972034
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 67 color.
Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock

Bernadette Mayer: Memory

A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick

In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. >>more

siglio
ISBN 9781938221255
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color.
Pub Date: 06/09/2020 Out of stock

Godless Utopia
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Roland Elliott Brown.

“We’ve finished the earthly tsars and we’re coming for the heavenly ones!” Thus spoke the Soviet Union’s first atheist propagandists as they declared war on “the opium of the people” across the USSR. Soviet atheism >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780995745575
US $34.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 190 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock

Fabric of a Nation
Edited with text by Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley. Preface by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468768
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 In stock

Nan Goldin: The Other Side
Text by Nan Goldin, Bea Rogers. Interview by Sunny Suits, Joey Gabriel.

One of Time Magazine's best photo book of 2019

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958296138
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10.75 in. / 140 pgs / 100 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 Out of stock

David Hockney: Drawing from Life
Text by Sarah Howgate.

Published to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney’s drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters >>more

National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147973
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2020 In stock

A to Z of Caribbean Art
Edited with introduction by Melanie Archer, Mariel Brown. Text by Melanie Archer, Monique Barnett-Davidson, Pat Ganase, Therese Hadchity, Katherine Kennedy, Indra Khanna, Geoffrey MacLean, Keisha Oliver, Adam Patterson, Marsha Pearce, Rob Perrée, Veerle Poupeye, Letitia Pratt, Judy Raymond, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Natalie Urquhart.

A to Z of Caribbean Art is a visual overview of Caribbean art, from the beginning of the 20th century to now, and serves as a resource of information on some of the greatest artists >>more

Robert & Christopher Publishers
ISBN 9789769534490
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 11/12/2019 In stock

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Text by Jan Marsh. Contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Alison Smith.

When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibited their first works in 1849 it heralded a revolution in British art. Styling themselves the “Young Painters of England,” this group of young men aimed to overturn stale Victorian artistic >>more

National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147270
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 Out of stock

Modern Artifacts
Edited with text by Tod Lippy. Text by Michelle Elligott. Contributions by Mary Ellen Carroll, Rhea Karam, Mary Lum, Clifford Owens, Michael Rakowitz, Paul Ramirez Jonas.

An LA Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020

Modern Artifacts includes all 18 installments of the series, copresented with Esopus and the Museum of Modern Art >>more

Esopus Books
ISBN 9780989911771
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 SDNR40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 354 pgs / 235 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2020 Out of stock

MoMA Now
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry. Text by Quentin Bajac, Christophe Cherix, Stuart Comer, Rajendra Roy, Martino Stierli, Ann Temkin.

In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 90th anniversary with the reopening of its extensively renovated and expanded midtown campus. Published to accompany the reopening, MoMA Now is an enlarged and expanded >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451001
US $75.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 424 pgs / 375 color.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock

Judd
Edited with text by Ann Temkin. Text by Erica Cooke, Tamar Margalit, Christine Mehring, James Meyer, Annie Ochmanek, Yasmil Raymond, Jeffrey Weiss.

Published to accompany the first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd’s sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450325
US $75.00 CAN $108.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 03/17/2020 In stock

Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Glenn D. Lowry. Text by Nicole Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson.

A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick

When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been >>more

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation
ISBN 9783958296961
US $50.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 60 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/16/2020 In stock

Cy Twombly: Making Past Present
Edited with text by Christine Kondoleon, Kate Nesin. Text by Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes, Mary Jacobus.

Cy Twombly's first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for classical culture that is everywhere present in his art. Painted canvases, works on paper and small-scale sculptures reveal the historical >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468744
US $65.00 CAN $91.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 264 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 08/25/2020 Out of stock

Festac ´77: 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Text by Alioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, Audre Lorde, Dominique Malaquais, Marilyn Nance, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Betye Saar, Wole Soyinka.

Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984498
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 352 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock

MFA Highlights: Arts of Africa
Text by Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch.

The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468645
US $22.50 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock

Philip Guston Now
Text by Harry Cooper, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, Kate Nesin. Contributions by Jennifer Roberts, Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli, Trenton Doyle Hancock, William Kentridge, Glenn Ligon, David Reed, Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Art Spiegelman, Rirkrit Tiravanija.

A Wall Street Journal 2020 holiday gift guide pick

Philip Guston—perhaps more than any other figure in recent memory—has given contemporary artists permission to break the rules and paint what, and how, they want. His winding >>more

D.A.P./National Gallery of Art
ISBN 9781942884569
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 280 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2020 In stock

member: Pope.L, 1978–2001
Edited with text by Stuart Comer. Text by Naomi Beckwith, Mark H.C. Bessire, C. Carr, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Danielle A. Jackson, Adrian Heathfield, EJ Hill, Thomas J. Lax, André Lepecki, Yvonne Rainer, Martine Syms, Martha Wilson.

Pope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums—including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video—utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Published in >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450868
US $40.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock

Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 1946–1964
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of São Paulo’s Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers founded in >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450844
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 184 pgs / 200 duotone.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock

Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start
Edited with text by Cara Manes. Text by Alexander Calder, Alexander S. C. Rower.

Alexander Calder’s work first appeared in the Museum of Modern Art’s galleries in 1930, in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. Over the next decades the artist’s connection with the Museum would be >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451162
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 113 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2021 In stock

Looking at Photography
By Stephen Frailey.

In 1973, John Szarkowski, the revered director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, published his classic volume Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862087025
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/07/2020 In stock

Leonard Freed: Black in White America
Edited by Michael Shulman, Tony Nourmand. Foreword by Eli Reed.

A Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick

In 1961, Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. He photographed a Black soldier standing in front of the wall. The irony of this soldier defending the USA >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526778
US $59.95 CAN $84.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/17/2020 In stock

Giovanni Bellini: The Last Works
By David Alan Brown.

An emblematic master painter of the Quattrocento, Giovanni Bellini remained active beyond that period and into the era now known as the High Renaissance. While his colleagues died or faded from view, Bellini, in the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857239965
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 400 pgs / 368 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock