Guide
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
Jasmine Weber
Book Review
Barkley L. Hendricks’s Studio Was a Wonderland of Inspiration
A photo book documenting the late artist’s colorful, cluttered studio shows an amalgamation of decades’ worth of inspiration.
News
Frank Wimberley, Artist of Controlled Accidents, Dies at 99
His life was marked by a devotion to experimentation and an excitement for creative possibility.
Guide
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
Features
Alison Saar’s Artistic Revolution
The artist talks to Hyperallergic about being raised by strong Black women, creating with abandon, and the full-circle significance of receiving the David C. Driskell Prize.
Art Review
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
Guide
8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month
Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.
Books
10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer
The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.
Art
Five New York City Art Shows We Love This Week
Among our favorite shows at the moment are ones that feature strong, talented women, like Patty Chang, Myrlande Constant, and Amy Sherald.
Art Review
Amy Sherald’s Parables of Black American Life
Sherald knits historic, cinematic, and literary references into many of her artworks, embedding their legacies into the distinct visual world she’s created.
Book Review
The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter
The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.
Art
Five Shows to See in New York City Right Now
Nick Cave leaves behind his Soundsuits, Ericka Beckman reimagines a fairy tale, American Artist explores the sci-fi world of Octavia E. Butler, and more.