> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # David Wojnarowicz in the Age of Surveillance - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/david-wojnarowicz-in-the-age-of-surveillance/ - Published: 2026-01-12T20:06:33.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-12T20:06:33.000Z - Description: Books on the living tradition of Palestinian embroidery, the women artists whose legacies Picasso eclipsed, and more to kick off 2026. - Author: Lakshmi Rivera Amin - Tags: Books Newsletter, Newsletter Happy New Year! Our first book reviews of 2026 are here, beginning with critic Bridget Quinn. There's a special place in hell for Pablo Picasso, but you probably already knew that. Because the conversation tends to stop there, what you may not have known are the names of some of the women whose artistic legacies have long been overshadowed by his: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. They're the subject of a new book by historian Sue Roe, *Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Life*. Well, sort of. Quinn writes that Roe's portraits are less about the partners Picasso frequently mistreated and the rich creative lives they led and more about "the love-bombing creature of conquest and control" himself. Maybe the book's subtitle is a clue after all. Catch up on Quinn's review, Lavinia Liang on David Wojnarowicz in the age of surveillance, and more, including our list of the [**best books of 2025**](https://hyperallergic.com/our-favorite-art-books-of-2025/)! —*Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor* --- ## From Our Critics [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/picasso.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-women-who-were-more-than-just-picassos-loves/) ### [The Women Who Were More Than Just Picasso’s Loves](https://hyperallergic.com/the-women-who-were-more-than-just-picassos-loves/) Sue Roe explores the agency and victories her subjects experienced as women who, we are repeatedly reminded, ardently loved Picasso. | Bridget Quinn --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/david.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/david-wojnarowicz-lessons-in-the-age-of-surveillance/) ### [David Wojnarowicz’s Lessons in the Age of Surveillance](https://hyperallergic.com/david-wojnarowicz-lessons-in-the-age-of-surveillance/) The artist’s photographs of a masked Arthur Rimbaud touring New York offer timely insights about visibility and resistance. | Lavinia Liang --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/LDN-Hyperallergic-Ad-FINAL.jpg)](https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/louis-de-niverville/?ref=hyperallergic.com) ****New Monograph Explores the Life and Work of Louis de Niverville, Painter of Dream Worlds** A long period of isolation during childhood influenced the work of Canadian painter and collagist Louis de Niverville. [**Pentimenti*](https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/louis-de-niverville/?ref=hyperallergic.com) surveys his wide-ranging body of work, which abounds with vivid, dream-like imagery, and reveals his uncanny ability to probe fantasy, myth, and his own subconscious. [Learn more ](https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/louis-de-niverville/?ref=hyperallergic.com) --- ## Features [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/native-threads.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-contemporary-relevance-of-palestinian-embroidery/) ### [The Contemporary Relevance of Palestinian Tatreez](https://hyperallergic.com/the-contemporary-relevance-of-palestinian-embroidery/) “When people wear Palestinian embroidery, it’s not just decorative. It's beautiful, of course, but it is saying something,” says author Joanna Barakat. | Greta Rainbow --- ## ICYMI [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/29-Connor_Bail_Jump_19352546201446.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-rembrandt-thief-who-came-out-on-top/) Myles Connor, cuffed and escorted by police (image courtesy the Associated Press) ### [The Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top](https://hyperallergic.com/the-rembrandt-thief-who-came-out-on-top/) Who better to dissect the decades-long career of an art thief than art crime professor Erin L. Thompson? She's written about several heists before, but this one's a doozy: Myles Connor estimates that he has stolen from 30 museums and private collections. Thompson walks us through the story of one of his most notorious jobs in Anthony M. Amore's new book, *The Rembrandt Heist* (2025). --- ## Other Books I’m Reading This Week ***The Message* (2024) by Ta-Nehisi Coates** is already worth the wait (which was several months on the Brooklyn Public Library hold list). \[[Bookshop.org](http://bookshop.org/a/539/9780593230381?ref=hyperallergic.com)\] ***The Secret History* (1992) by Donna Tartt** offers a perfect cocktail of psychological thrill and proto-dark academia over some 500 pages. I'm attempting to finish it within the next month; wish me luck. \[[Bookshop.org](http://bookshop.org/a/539/9781400031702?ref=hyperallergic.com)\] --- ## From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/press-3.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/diza-noole-stories-of-undocumented-indigenous-women-in-los-angeles/) Photographed by June Canedo de Souza in collaboration with Odilia Romero and Janet Martínez (image courtesy CIELO and June Canedo de Souza) ### [Honoring the Stories of Undocumented Indigenous Women in Los Angeles](https://hyperallergic.com/diza-noole-stories-of-undocumented-indigenous-women-in-los-angeles/) *Diža’ No’ole* (2021) walks a line between revealing and concealing, respecting the women’s decision to keep some things hidden. | Matt Stromberg