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Celebrating James Baldwin's Radical Beauty
In God Made My Face, artists and critics reflect on seeing themselves through the late metamorphic writer’s work.
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10 New Art Books to Read This Pride Month
Celebrate June with titles on James Baldwin, queer artists and political action, Warhol film star Candy Darling, strippers and performance in San Francisco, and more.
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The Smoky Visual History of Censers
From Mesoamerican rituals to royal Asian courts, Holy Smoke explores incense vessels and their rich network of makers, biotic substances, and knowledge.
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How the Black Meme Turns a Trope Into a Trap
Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.
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The Anti-Spectacle of the Black Avant-Garde
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style considers the political utility of Black abstraction and related forms to refute false narratives of progress.
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14 Art Books to Read This Summer
From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.
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This Art Book Is About You!
Much has been written about artists, curators, and art historians. Oskar Bätschmann’s The Art Public: A Short History is dedicated to the spectators on the other side.
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A New Keith Haring Biography Leaves Out Half the Story
Radiant is a bountiful source of information about the late queer artist’s life and career, but it says oddly little about his art and its enduring legacy.
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Palestine Solidarity Shines at the New York Art Book Fair
This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere.
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Snapshots of Everyday Palestinian Life Before the Nakba
Archival photography in Against Erasure ranges from uprisings to olive tree cultivation and an open-air cinema.
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How Big Cats Once Symbolized France’s Colonialist Ambitions
Myth and Menagerie urges us to view lions as sentient beings and not as timeless, passive objects of representation for 19th-century French artists.
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The Scholar Who Rewrote Black Brazilian History
Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.