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The collected contributions from Simone Leigh's 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women's intellectual and creative laborAs a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born...

Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me...

This ground-breaking volume increases our understanding of the dynamism and richness of American art, featuring works that span a century from artist across the United States.Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection offers a re-examination of...

New York Times Notable Book"A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the '80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction."-- Village Voice A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist...

Accompanying the largest UK survey to date of work by the legendary Chicago-based figurative painterThis volume is the most extensive publication on Kerry James Marshall to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in...

'Thorough, accessible, essential' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men 'A sparkling debut. Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, Alayo Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art, museums and culture. This book will shift your...

A two part book reimagining dark matter and the darkTranstraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practices with innovative methodologies to explore themes of...

The first book from artist Danielle Mckinney, featuring 50 prompts for self-reflection written by her mother and a 44-page journal for the reader to respondDanielle Mckinney is a rising star in the art world. Her tender, intimate representations of Black...

The highly anticipated debut monograph from trailblazing artist Nina Chanel AbneyCombining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney's paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity,...

The highly anticipated first monograph on one of the most celebrated American contemporary artistsThrough portraits, social scenes, photographs, sculptures, and immersive installations, Derrick Adams has developed an artistic practice that jocundly...

The first major book about an artist of powerful significance to twentieth-century Black and American art The artist Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) was a community leader, mentor, and tireless recorder of the people and places of Boston, where he lived...

In Transatlantic Disbelonging, Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies,...