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Why Your Shelf Looks Like a Gallery
Plus a book about an infamous art trafficker, an Anni Albers bio, and more.
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Our Summer Art Reading List
Whenever I’m stuck in a reading rut, I find that art books of any kind are the only ones that can rescue me. This time, it’s Kory Stamper’s True Color, a transfixing story about the man who originated Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definitions for colors. A begonia, for
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The Enigma of Alison Knowles
New tomes on Hans Holbein’s portraits, photographer Jan Staller’s studies of Manhattan construction sites, and more.
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Ai Weiwei Wrote the Book on Censorship
Plus, inside a Black Panther family album, predatory art-world relationships, and the unknown Qing Dynasty trade portraitists.
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50 Years of Chicano Photography
Art books we're reading this spring, a deep dive into Frank O'Hara's curatorial gig at MoMA, and more.
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White Girls and the Global South
Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.
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Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures
The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today.
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Reading a Biography of a Mountain
Mount Rushmore, originally known as Six Grandfathers, gets its own biography, plus Sarah Bond on museums’ approach to polychromy and whiteness.
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Art Books That Serve Up Beauty and Depth
Our favorite art books for February, the writings of Claude Cahun, and an imaginative history of Michelangelo and Titian.
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Your 2026 Art Book Reading List
Plus, a sexual history of the internet as told by sex workers and cyberfeminists.
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David Wojnarowicz in the Age of Surveillance
Books on the living tradition of Palestinian embroidery, the women artists whose legacies Picasso eclipsed, and more to kick off 2026.
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All I Want for Christmas Is More Art Books
But who has the shelf space?