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A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.

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Black Cube, a Nomadic Art Museum, Releases Limited-edition Hardcover Monograph

The book surveys site-specific art projects produced by Black Cube in unusual places like abandoned bus terminals, gold mining towns, iconic modernist chapels, and even cars.

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On Site: 50 Years of Public Art of the University of Houston System Highlights 40 of the Collection’s Most Notable Works

This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of Public Art of the University of Houston System and features public artworks by artists including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Margo Sawyer, Alyson Shotz, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.

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Elizabeth Otto Unlocks History in Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Her recent book offers an investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus’s signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.

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Tate Launches Its New Online Research Publication Modern American Art at Tate 1945-1980

This publication is devoted to post-war American art in Tate's collection, revealing the richness and complexity of the museum’s involvement with art from the United States during this period.

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Art, Architecture, and Philosophy in Aesthetics Equals Politics Edited by Mark Foster Gage

This book looks at how aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

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Exploring the Cultural and Philosophical History of Neon in Luis De Miranda’s Being and Neonness

The book looks at a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.

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Plastic Capitalism by Amanda Boetzkes Examines Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste

The book links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking.

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An Autobiography in Pictures, Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003

The book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by the artist.

Artwork from Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell.

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Ria Brodell’s Butch Heroes Recovers Forgotten Queer History

Katherina Hetzeldorfer was tried and then drowned in the Rhine, for a crime that didn’t have a name in 1477.

Andy Warhol U.S.A., 1928–1987. Contact Sheet, [Andy Warhol photo shoot with Liza Minnelli and Victor Hugo, John Lennon], 1978

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Andy Warhol’s Photography During the Last Decade of His Life, Examined for the First Time

In Contact Warhol, Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer analyze never seen before contact sheets calling it Warhol's final body of work.