Books Newsletter
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.
Books Newsletter
Books Newsletter
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.
Books Newsletter
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?
Books Newsletter
Louise Bourgeois’s Newest Biography
The countdown to 2026 — and the deluge of end-of-year lists — has begun in earnest, but we're not quite done with 2025 yet. This week, our reviewers tackled two colossal subjects: monuments and the late great Louise Bourgeois. Monumental by Cat Dawson invites us to contemplate a world of