Edited by Leah Dickerman and Elsa Smithgall. With contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakka, Jodi Roberts, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams, and Kevin Young. In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, made a series of sixty small tempera paintings on…
To look inside this book, click here. By Lucy Gallun Traveling through New Orleans on a cross-country road trip in 1955, the Swissborn photographer Robert Frank snapped a picture of a passing streetcar. The result, Trolley—New Orleans, is a searing image of everyday racism. The streetcar’s riders, framed by the vehicle’s windows, are divided…
Edited by Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García with Karen Grimson and Michaëla de Lacaze. With contributions by Inés Katzenstein, María Amalia García, Mónica Amor, Irene V. Small. Interview with Luis Pérez-Oramas, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Glenn D. Lowry Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished…
Edited by Erica Papernik-Shimizu. With contributions by Erica Papernik-Shimizu and Gloria Sutton Shigeko Kubota was one of the first artists to commit to video in the early 1970s, drawn to its freedom from precedent and its expressive potential. Treating recently introduced portable video equipment like a “new paintbrush,” she interwove conceptual concerns and formal experimentation…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose. With contributions by Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, b. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, and Stuart Hall Riot is an intellectual autobiography of the artist Isaac Julien, whose trail-blazing career has pushed…
Edited by Inés Katzenstein. With a contribution by Julia Detchon Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond brings together a diverse array of artworks whose mobilization of Latin America’s varied histories animates both their politics and their poetics. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The…
Edited by Paola Antonelli, Anna Burckhardt, and Paul Galloway Every interaction in our onscreen lives—with ATMs, vending machines, retail websites, and video calls—takes place through an interface. Sometimes buggy and confusing, sometimes inviting and accessible, these interfaces, like other everyday tools, are seldom the object of critical examination, and often we don’t even notice…
Edited by Anne Umland with Francesca Ferrari and Alexandra Morrison. With contributions by Cindy Albertson, Anny Aviram, Lee Ann Daffner, Michael Duffy, Emilie Faust, Starr Figura, Erika Mosier, and Rachel Mustalish In the summer of 1921, on the west wall of his improvised garage studio in Fontainebleau, France, Pablo Picasso painted two large-scale and…
By Jodi Hauptman Over the course of seven decades, the American artist Ellsworth Kelly produced a vast body of work—paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and even an architectural commission—devoted to the investigation of shape and color. His landmark 1951 painting Colors for a Large Wall was the culmination of an extraordinarily productive moment in Kelly’s early career,…
Edited by Christophe Cherix with Ana Torok and Kiko Aebi. Additional contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Donna De Salvo and Linda Norden, Michael Govan, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Tobias, Andrew Perchuk, and Jeffrey Weiss Spanning sixty-five years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, Ed Ruscha / Now Then…
Edited by Ann Temkin and Dorthe Aagesen Created in 1911, Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA’s galleries since 1949, depicts the artist’s studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, filled with…
By Carolyn Lanchner Unique among the pioneers of modern art, Fernand Léger adopted the trappings of modernity as a primary subject of his work. This newer addition to the MoMA Artist Series features ten paintings selected from The Museum of Modern Art’s substantial Léger collection. Together they trace the artist’s career, illustrating his early…
By Carolyn Lanchner Robert Rauschenberg revolutionized postwar modernism with his experimental approach to the materials and content of art, setting the scene for Pop art, Conceptualism, and other movements that emerged in the 1960s. This book features nine pieces by Rauschenberg selected from The Museum of Modern Art’s substantial collection of his work, including…
Edited by Christian Rattemeyer, Lynne Cooke, and Mark Godfrey. With contributions by Claire Gilman and Jason Smith Published to accompany the first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti’s work outside Italy in over a decade, this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti’s broad oeuvre—including…
Edited by Ana Janevski. With contributions by Gilles Almavi, Jérôme Bel, Cosmin Costinas, Bojana Cvejic, Tim Etchells, Mark Franko, Gabriella Giannochi, Adrian Heathfield, Noémi Solomon, Peter Tolmie, Christophe Wavelet, and Catherine Wood Boris Charmatz is one of the key protagonists in recent revolutions in modern dance. Born in 1973 in Chambéry, France, Charmatz made…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Vladimir Kulic and Wolfgang Thaler. With contributions by Bogdan Bogdanovic, Vladimir Kulic, and Martino Stierli Bogdan Bogdanović (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor, and one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the…