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The Notebooks
(Artist Archives)
A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooksBrooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure...
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The Prints of Derrick Adams
Echoing the bright, graphic and collage-like aesthetic of his painting practice, Adams' prints are playful expressions of Black joy Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams (born 1970)...
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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 $175.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $175.00The Rihanna Book
Limited Edition (Fenty X Phaidon) Featuring a Tattooed Hand Stand (Special Order +1-2 weeks)
The Rihanna Book
Limited Edition (Fenty X Phaidon) Featuring a Tattooed Hand Stand (Special Order +1-2 weeks)
Clear the coffee table! Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography that comes with a limited edition stand created in collaboration...
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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 and cultural overview of skateboarding through more than 65 profiles of the biggest names in the sport from one of the...
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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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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail
(Pre-order, Sep 29 2026)
The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail
(Pre-order, Sep 29 2026)
The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail is a provocative collaboration between Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri and renowned artist Rosemary Clunie. Pushing the possibilities of...
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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
Sold outThe 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 $36.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $36.00The Wonderful World That Almost Was:
A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
The Wonderful World That Almost Was:
A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
"As official narratives everywhere strain and crack, Peter and Paul—and Durbin—offer a desperately needed alternative way of seeing and being." —Benjamin Moser, author of Susan Sontag:...
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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
The World of Black Film
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah
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, July 14 2026)
Theaster Gates
A Clay Sermon (Pre-Order, July 14 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
Sold outTheaster Gates
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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