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From Triangle to Tiger, a Handbook for Understanding Symbols
Mark Fox and Angie Wang's Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing is a guide to the evolution of symbolism using 400 examples from art history.
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Photographing Palm Springs Modernism by Moonlight
Tom Blachford's photographs in Midnight Modern were taken between midnight and 5am in Palm Springs, illuminated only by the moon.
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A Comic Whose Characters Swim in Apathy and Cynicism
A comic written by Pete Toms is peopled with bleak characters in a state of resigned existential crisis.
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From Seminal Fluid to Sassy Scribbles: The "Non-Art" Works of Marcel Duchamp
Even after digesting this considerable amount of ostensibly transitory disclosure, Duchamp remains an unadulterated, irreverent enigma.
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Reader’s Diary: The Potential Novel of a Conceivable Algeria
The 1950s through the mid-1970s were the great era of the unreadable novel. Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma was one of the first and most remarkable of these.
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A New Louise Nevelson Biography Picks Apart the Artist's Contradictions
Laurie Wilson, practicing psychologist and art historian, has penned a new biography of the ground-breaking artist Louise Nevelson.
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Reader’s Diary: It Was a Colorful Year
Darby English’s new book 1971 decries black nationalist demands for a unified artistic community in favor of abstraction, individualism, and personal autonomy.
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In Its Own Faint Language: On Don Mee Choi’s 'Hardly War'
Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”
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Build a Miniature Brutalist London Out of Paper
By crafting tiny paper replicas of brutalist London buildings, the design studio Zupagrafika encourages a better appreciation for concrete architecture.
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The Artist as Acerbic Critic: Donald Judd's Writings
A new volume of Donald Judd's art criticism contains previously published essays, rejected ones, and choice passages from his notebooks.
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Tracing Beatrix Potter's Artistic Evolution, from Fungi to Peter Rabbit
A new book chronicles Potter's evolution from a precocious naturalist to an expert artist with a scientific eye to a wildly successful author of children's books.
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The Improbable Nature of the Gowanus Canal, Photographed at Night
Since 2012, photographer Miska Draskoczy has explored the urban ecology of the toxic yet gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood.