Collection: Art

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...

SKEW is Level Ground’s experimental art + dialogue magazine. Building on last year’s precedent, SKEW 03 is cooperatively owned by this issue’s curators, designer, and...

The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James...

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a...

The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily...

Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and...

Critchlow’s portraits of Black women transform Western portraiture and conflate kitsch with tradition Somaya Critchlow’s canvases and sketchbooks log an ongoing process of world building....

More than 50 elders share their remarkable experiences of being Black in America in a collection of powerful photographs and interviews   For so long,...

  A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences...

The debut monograph on the haunting, tenebrous figuration of the acclaimed Maine painter Maine-based painter Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) explores storytelling and visual metaphor,...

Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process....

A painterly kaleidoscope of Black queer life Bright paint, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers: the paintings of Pittsburgh-based artist Devan Shimoyama (born 1989) resemble midsummer night...

This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and...

An expanded edition of Parks' classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and texts. This expanded edition of Gordon Parks: Segregation Story includes...

An investigation into Saar's lifelong interest in Black dolls, with new watercolors, historic assemblages, sketchbooks and a selection of Black dolls from the artist's collection...

A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-artists famed for their mutual explorations of race, class and power Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae...

Themes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to...

Ringgold's most formative and influential political works are gathered in this beautifully designed clothbound volume. Alongside reproductions of key works made between 1967 and 1981, Faith...

Replete with complexities, abjection, beauty and joy, Women Painting Women offers new ways to imagine the portrayal of women, from Alice Neel to Jordan Casteel A thematic...