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Inspired by the author's own childhood, this contemporary graphic novel paints a picture of an aspiring young artist on a mission to prove that the...

In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an...

The canonical work of cultural criticism by the "profoundly influential critic" (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist...

  Angela Davis' iconic 1985 essay on the role of art in social and racial liberation, illustrated by painter Tschabalala Self In her stirring and...

In this critical history, DeForrest Brown, Jr “makes techno Black again” by tracing the music’s origins in Detroit and beyond In Assembling a Black Counter Culture,...

  Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra...

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.Astra Magazine connects...

In a complex tangle of past and present, contemporary artists engage with the legacies of non-Western 20th-century counterculture movements   Increasingly, contemporary artists are returning...

Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines...

The court, the ball and the hoop: Barkley Hendricks paints basketball The third installment in Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery’s five-volume overview of American artist...

American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks's...

The long-awaited monograph on Barkley L. Hendricks' powerful portraits of contemporary Black subjects Barkley L. Hendricks is rightly known as one of the foremost American...

The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally...

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel...

In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri...

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we...

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...

Made at a critical juncture in Betye Saar's (born 1926) career, the enigmatic assemblage Black Girl's Window (1969) was recognized by the artist as a crucial link...