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Multimedia paintings and drawings from Pendleton's acclaimed Untitled (WE ARE NOT) and Black Dada series and moreThe catalog for Adam Pendleton's (...

In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton's MoMA show, the artist behind "Black Dada" fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protestAda...

The long-awaited first major monograph on the iconic portraitist of Black AmericansThis is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter A...

"Suss' paintings attend to the genealogy of caretaking and the everyday shapes that care takes: ordinary fabrics, simple language, routine." -The N...

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

On Ellis' ingenious, heartfelt explorations of memory and disillusion through multimedia photographyDuring his short career, Bronx-born Darrel Elli...

American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in t...

The product of more than 30 years of research, this astounding and authoritative volume reveals the political metaphors underpinning El Anatsui's m...

The first museum survey of the visionary polymath from Côte d'IvoireThe Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré created an unmistakable and entirely ...

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time Recalling a charc...

The first book on Chicago-born Hebru Brantley, the preeminent African American pop artist of his generation, whose work is hot and in demand in the...

The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural ...

On Whitten's pioneering 1970s series marking his move away from gestural paintingThe first publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten's Greek Al...

Transnational cultural hybrids of the Afro-AtlanticThe first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus (born 1973), this pub...

This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors wit...

How Basquiat transformed his sources and brought a raw, fresh energy to the art of paintingJean-Michel Basquiat's (1960-88) formal vocabulary was i...

Packed with allusions to art history and full of rambunctious cartoon energy, Green's paintings eviscerate the gruesome imagery of racismBronx-base...

An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American artPope.L is a consummate thinker and ...

With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive artThe definitive volume on the ever-evol...

The first ever book on Ellison's lifelong photography practice, from New York scenes to domestic vignettesRalph Ellison is a leading figure in Amer...

Working in video, sculpture, photography, and text-based artworks, Smith draws attention to American systems of inequityThis is the first major mon...

New insights into Picasso's Blue Period, through innovative technology that reveals hidden compositions, motifs and alterations, plus hitherto unkn...