Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.

A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.

The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.

The life of Dr. Edith Farnsworth was long distorted by her dealings with Mies van der Rohe, who designed her glass house in Illinois. Almost Nothing asks us to take a closer look.

A book of oral histories about the now-shuttered venue takes us through those who came before, made it big, and died too soon.

Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.

Time Machines reveals entanglements between the largely forgotten optical telegraph and artistic movements in 19th-century France.

Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.

Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and exploration.

Echoes from the Borderlands, which transcribes a sound installation tracing the border, insists on the land’s inextricability from the history to which it bears witness.

A visit to Michaels craft store helped restore book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund during a deep bout of depression.

A new book pulses with artistic forms by Puerto Rican artists born of necessity, urgency, collaboration, and activism.

Beyond Adornment explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo.

In The Buried City, the director of the archaeological park brings a more humane and soulful version of the site to life.

Sue Prideaux’s new biography of the artist reveals both a discomfort with his complex legacy and that, in 2025, redemption arcs sell.

Like an art history detective, Mei Mei Rado mines textiles and techniques to reveal cross-cultural Chinese-European liaisons driven by nationalism and a keen interest in design.

Craig Thompson’s rhizomatic new graphic novel about the root’s farming industry exposes the paradoxes of Trump’s America.

Readers might enjoy the gross and gory fairy-tale quality of this new book — or its parallels to the Trumpian internet.

A new comic book is as much a social history of photography and its relationship to culture during the 19th century as it is one man’s life story.

Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.

In Surreal, Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition.

A new book sets its sights on the artist’s lesser-known post-war career and her negotiations of identity.

Rife with descriptions of “seductive” works, the former “New York Times” Paris bureau chief’s book reads more like a travel guide than the impartial reporting of a journalist.

No Man’s Land, Pakistani artist Amin Gulgee’s first comprehensive monograph, maps his interest in exploring ritual, science, grief, and healing in a visual language all his own.

A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.

In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Iskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined.

The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.

With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches.

This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster. 

Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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.

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.