General Art

"Sound demands a listener, text requires a reader, and performance necessitates that others be present for the experience. Without those presences, the circuit isn't complete, the charge will not travel through, the work will not become active in the...

West African combs: a hundred sublime pieces from an exceptional private collection. A tribute to sculpture and personal adornment. This book is put together like a jewel and contains a carefully chosen selection of around 100 West African combs from one...

My Brother Ashley Clark Has Broke It Down To What Black Film Was, Is Present Day, And What The Future Might Be. BLAK IZ BLAK. YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF. Enjoy This BLAK CINEMATIC SCIENCE. - Spike Lee This book belongs on the shelf of every film lover, every...

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book, filled with illustration, graffiti and graphic art, features an amazing collection of over 200 specially commissioned sneaker stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti artists from around the world...

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer future In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department and the death of Regis...

When Rutgers professor Amber N. Wiley began teaching her African American Art class in 2018, she and her students made a shocking discovery. While the university's Zimmerli Art Museum had over seventy thousand artworks in its collection, only one of the...

Piper examines the social construction of race and Blackness through conceptual projects questioning her own identityThis book grows out of the first European retrospective in more than 20 years dedicated to celebrated Berlin-based American conceptual...

Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewis's legacy...

A career retrospective of a singular voice in contemporary American art, featuring six decades of artwork that chronicles his vision of the Black American experience New Orleans-based artist, community organizer, and cultural provocateur Willie Birch (b...

Forms of Blackness examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. C?cile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret...

W.E.B. Du Bois and the interplay of data, technology, and race in the twenty-first century. Data Consciousness brings together original essays and an interview exploring W.E.B. Du Bois and his contributions to sociology, art, and aesthetics from the...

For centuries, Black artists across the African diaspora have been architects of cultural innovation, resilience, and transformation. Their art, music, literature, and activism have profoundly shaped the world. But behind these celebrated figures stands...