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“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often…

Signaling recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of…

Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers…

The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star…

Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today.…

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles…

Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of…

In this highly engaging and empowering book, Michael Findlay, an internationally respected art dealer, urges museum goers to unplug from the audio tour, ignore those…

Photos Day or Night is an intimate look at the life and work of early 20th-century American photographer Hugh Mangum. Mangum was born in 1877…

Join us for this special author event, including an introduction and Q+A with the Museum’s curatorial staff, author talk, and book-signing! Photos Day or Night:…

“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and…

Save Me the Waltz is the story of Alabama Beggs, a young Southern girl who meets and falls in love with David Knight during World…

My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures,…

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid…

“Stop doing, stop moving, stop twisting and turning.” These are the first steps toward inner calm and increased mental clarity, says psychiatrist and leading meditation…

What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? From museums and the art market to…

I Remember Better When I Paint conveys valuable scientific information on how Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect the brain, and how art and creative therapies…

Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends – Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, an art historian born in 1984 – look to…

For the first time in 27 years, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has authorized a book on the daring theft of 13 priceless works of…

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina’s grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold…

The American studio glass movement can be traced to 1962, when Harvey Littleton, a professor of ceramics at the University of Wisconsin, had a dream…

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic: its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement,…

Giddy at the prospect of a promotion, Charles Singulier makes the whimsical decision to buy a bowler hat. It is a satisfying, if fanciful, purchase.…

Newlyweds Sara and Gerald set forth to create a beautiful world together outside the confines of society life in New York City. In the south…

In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics, and…

Over a period of 50 years, sisters Claribel and Etta Cone amassed one of the most acclaimed collections of late-19th and 20th-century art in America.…

Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn’t get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to…

Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, takes us inside a secretive business whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front-page news almost…

What do major artists consider their best-kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In 100…

This remarkable book, the first major collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly 100 years, presents 72 traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band…

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is fictional 10-year-old Karen Reyes’s graphic diary, filled with B-movie…

First published in 1971, this essay is considered a pioneering piece of writing for both feminist art history and feminist art theory. Nochlin explores the institutional – as opposed…

This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic.…

UN/MASKED follows the surprising 25-year journey of a young, New York City actress swept off her feet by a rising movie star who carries her to…

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from…

It’s 1936 when orphaned 13-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for…

For centuries, great artists have been drawn together in friendship and in love. In Artists in Love, curator and writer Veronica Kavass delves into the…

In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with…

With her richly textured novels, Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist’s life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores…

How could looking at Monet’s waterlily paintings help save your company millions? How can checking out people’s footwear foil a terrorist attack? How can your…