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The Other Almanac Is Your Artsy Field Guide for 2025
This annual publication inverts the almanac form, offering art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, writing by Naomi Klein, and poems elegizing the plants of Gaza.
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Before Black, There Was Blue
In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation.
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Relational Art in the Time of Tech Oligarchy
In a convulsing world with dwindling digital spaces for connection, can Relational Art offer lessons on building community and meaning?
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Scheming Dealers, Auction House Collusion, Pub Gossip, Oh My!
A new book spills the tea on the 20th-century London art scene.
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An Exhibition of Non-Existent Books
It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.
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The History of Blackness Is Entwined With Blue
Manet’s portrait of Jeanne Duval reveals how racism trains us to see colors in particular and sometimes contradictory ways.
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Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right
The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.
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Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking
The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.
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Bold New Books in Art and Visual Culture From the MIT Press
Deep explorations of Ray Johnson, Ridykeulous, Tony Smith, Steina, Ruth Asawa, graffiti as monument, the art of mourning, and more.
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The Pasadena Bookstore Taking Cues From Octavia E. Butler
Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.
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New Graphic Novel Tackles Thorny Questions Around Animal Cruelty
Dog Days examines the complexity of human-canine relationships in light of intergenerational tensions in South Korean society.
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Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.