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The Quick
The Quick publication is the compendium monograph, and supplemental site of collaboration, to the exhibition of the same title curated by Ashley Stull Meyers featuring the...
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The Rihanna Book
From her Barbados childhood to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion moments to private time with friends and family, the book showcases intimate photographs of...
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Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00The Skateboard Life
Movers, Shakers, Makers & Rulebreakers: The Quintessential Story of Skateboard Culture
The Skateboard Life
Movers, Shakers, Makers & Rulebreakers: The Quintessential Story of Skateboard Culture
A highly-visual celebration of skateboarding through the voices of the biggest names of a sport that is more popular and culturally relevant than ever. ...
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The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol....
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The Social Movement Archive
This color art book highlights political art and ephemera, including zines, stickers, posters, and memes, and sheds light on archiving social movements. The book features...
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Regular price $39.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $39.95The Soul of a Nation Reader
Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960 - 1980
The Soul of a Nation Reader
Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960 - 1980
A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black...
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Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.00The Swans of Harlem
Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
The Swans of Harlem
Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. At the height of...
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"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava...
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Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism
The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism
Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...
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Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $45.00The Time Is Always Now
Artists Reframe the Black Figure
The Time Is Always Now
Artists Reframe the Black Figure
Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary artists"There is never a time in the future...
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Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $32.00The Trembling Hand
Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
The Trembling Hand
Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our...
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for the art historian
Regular price $150.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $150.00The Wanda Coleman Songbook EP
Limited-Edition Vinyl
The Wanda Coleman Songbook EP
Limited-Edition Vinyl
52 Walker presents THE WANDA COLEMAN SONGBOOK EP, produced by Cauleen Smith on the occasion of her exhibition at 52 Walker, New York, on view...
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Regular price From $19.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $19.95The War of Art
A History of Artists' Protest In America
The War of Art
A History of Artists' Protest In America
How artists have changed America through direct actionArtists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of...
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Regular price From $14.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $14.99The Whole Picture
The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It
The Whole Picture
The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is...
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The Wonderful Towers of Watts
The incredible artwork of an Italian immigrant who followed his dream of monumental proportions in the impoverished Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles is revealed in...
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Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $45.00The World of Black Film
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah (Pre-Order, Feb 17 2026)
The World of Black Film
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah (Pre-Order, Feb 17 2026)
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....
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Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $50.00Theaster Gates
A Clay Sermon (Pre-Order, Feb 03 2026)
Theaster Gates
A Clay Sermon (Pre-Order, Feb 03 2026)
The artist as activist, archivist, pedagogue, urban planner and maker: on the multifarious activities of Theaster Gates This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates...
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Regular price $55.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $55.00Theaster Gates
Black Madonna
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Black Madonna
A clothbound compendium of Theaster Gates' interdisciplinary exploration of artistic and religious representations of the Black Madonnas For his Kuntsmuseum Basel exhibition, Chicago-based multiartist Theaster...
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Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $65.00Theaster Gates
Every Square Needs a Circle
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Every Square Needs a Circle
Documented in this attractively designed slipcased volume, Theaster Gates' latest work explores his commitment to Chicago and the work of W.E.B. Du Bois In Every Square...
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Regular price $69.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $69.99There's Light
Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being
There's Light
Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being
There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being is a collection of over sixty artworks from contemporary art legends and emerging talents,...
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Regular price $36.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $36.95This Bridge Called My Back
Writings by Radical Women of Color (40th Anniversary Edition)
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Writings by Radical Women of Color (40th Anniversary Edition)
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth...
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Regular price $8.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $8.99This Is What I Know About Art
(Pocket Change Collective)
This Is What I Know About Art
(Pocket Change Collective)
In this powerful and hopeful account, arts writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew reminds us that the art world has space not just for the...
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Regular price $39.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $39.95This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer's activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a...
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Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $35.00This Must Be the Place
An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
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An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
An oral history of the Latin American artists who moved to New York in the late 1960s and pioneered a new conceptualism informed by migrant...
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