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A Photographer’s Uncanny Images of Amusement Parks at Night
After the sun set and the amusement park closed, photographer Stefano Cerio documented the surreal scenes of its vacant rides.
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Crosscutting Tales: Donald Breckenridge's Novel And Then
Satisfying both on the level of story and style, And Then is a thoughtful meditation on the residue that remains: the ghosts that people our lives, the dead we cannot forget.
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Molly Nesbit Chases the Big Ideas
“I’m interested in how ideas function in the world, in questions of practice, not just theory,” Nesbit told me. “I’m not interested in theory per se, but rather in thinking.”
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The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters
The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.
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Eerie Photographs of Solitary Cars in 1970s New York
Cars: New York City, 1974–1976 collects 115 photographs by Langdon Clay of cars both beautiful and battered in the nighttime.
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E.E. Cummings’s Long-Forgotten Artist’s Book
Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings's visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.
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Staying Up with Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book
Buffam’s A Pillow Book is a smart, funny, provocative collection of lists, research into pillows and sleeplessness, and details about all kinds of people, including famous insomniacs.
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How Artists Strive to Make Sense of the Archive in the “Middle East”
The ambitious volume Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East in many ways responds to the post-1990s archive fever, but from a specific geographic locale.
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The Indulgence of an Anthology of Erotic and Horror Comics
Mirror Mirror II, the second annual collection from 2dcloud, is like a porn stash you’d find in the cupboard of a medieval demon.
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A Book Gathers Botanical Sketches from Across the Centuries
Botanical Sketchbooks is a compendium of the diverse ways plants have been observed, studied, and immortalized in centuries of art.
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The Regal, Bloody, and Fiery History of the Color Red
Michel Pastoureau's new book tackles the complicated history of the color red, from regal hue of kings to scandalous shade of harlots.
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Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees
Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.