The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.

Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.

A new book features over 200 photos of the beloved owl who escaped from his enclosure in Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo.

Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms.

This annual publication inverts the almanac form, offering art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, writing by Naomi Klein, and poems elegizing the plants of Gaza.

In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation.

In a convulsing world with dwindling digital spaces for connection, can Relational Art offer lessons on building community and meaning?

A new book spills the tea on the 20th-century London art scene.

It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.

Manet’s portrait of Jeanne Duval reveals how racism trains us to see colors in particular and sometimes contradictory ways.

The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.

The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.

Deep explorations of Ray Johnson, Ridykeulous, Tony Smith, Steina, Ruth Asawa, graffiti as monument, the art of mourning, and more.

Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.

Dog Days examines the complexity of human-canine relationships in light of intergenerational tensions in South Korean society.

As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.

Propagandopolis, a globe-spanning selection of visual persuasions from the early 20th century to now, is a travelogue to disinformation’s past. 

This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists.

For the so-called “1.5 Generation,” music allowed an escape from the binary between home and school, Vietnamese traditions and American culture.

Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.

Characters in fairy tales “are white not by chance, but by design,” Kimberly J. Lau writes in a new book.

Despite its ambition to expand our definition of the creature to include other winged, hybrid beasts, Griffinology is hemmed in by a European framework.

“When it comes to the unspeakable facts in the history of America, it's largely the artists who've been willing to show us what others would not,” the art historian said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

A new catalog invites us into the artist’s interest in smell and the role of perfumes during the Renaissance, with bonus recipes for those with a nose for fragrance.

A new book spans artists from the 1970s through today around 15 themes, including body art, queer politics, ecofeminism, and the North American diaspora.

The two-day event was a welcome cure to holiday-season fatigue, with accordion zines, rare books, and copper wire-bound short stories.

Adrian Tomine’s new book answers questions from his readers, a gesture of acknowledgment and even gratitude delivered from a safe distance.

In the wake of the 1964 race riots, the Black feminist writer collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller on a never-realized project to reimagine the neighborhood's public housing.

Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, authors who also make art, and the delight of writing fiction.

This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s Suffrage Song.

In a new book, the novelist and essayist writes in parallel to, rather than directly about, art.

Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass.

Corky Lee’s Asian America is a stunning glimpse into the fight for racial justice over the last half-century — one many Americans haven’t seen.

Author Nina Edwards weaves a seamless tale of the social, visual, and economic dimensions of the hidden garments that literally underpin our lives.

Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her nonagenarian life story.

A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month.

One of the great joys of Endpapers is how author Jennifer Savran Kelly folds the search for artistic and gender identity into the elements of the book form.

Galician artist Bea Lema navigates themes of generational trauma and healing, tenderly illustrating the story of a daughter who desperately wants to protect her mother.

As a new book shows, the school’s teachings continue to influence creative practices.

Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.

Indian artist Jitish Kallat translated an installation based on the South African leader’s daily logs during his incarceration into an intimate book.

John Craxton would see the animal mid-action and think, that’s another picture. On the occasion of National Cat Day, here are some of his most fantastic felines.

An exhibition at the New York Public Library shows that these modes share deep roots. 

Identifying “dark forests” as digital havens from mainstream gamification, a new book plumbs the depths of the Internet and what it means for creatives today.

Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy.

The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day.

The subject of festivals and even a Warhol painting, the beloved comic is available at last in a published compilation for cartoonists to study and absorb.

A new book provides an ideal introduction to a Renaissance painter largely known only to specialists, but who was counted among the most important of his generation.

Reflecting on her own reactions to Chantal Akerman’s namesake film, Christine Smallwood muses on the personal baggage we inevitably bring to the art we consume.

Rachel Spence succinctly explicates the power struggles that brought us to this point, though her insistence that the art ecosystem is at an all-time low left me unconvinced.