One for the true bibliophile, this volume features Liu’s famous paintings of books—from Bauhaus classics to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.

In this illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Ofili portrays Othello in twelve etchings, with an introduction by theorist and poet Fred Moten.

This title focuses on Kusama’s poetry, which the artist has consistently produced alongside her work in other mediums.

At 1,056 pages, Donald Judd Writings is a comprehensive collection of new and previously unpublished essays, notes, and letters that give insight into the artist’s critical writing practice.

Tracing the artist’s career—from early paintings to immersive installations—this book chronicles the developments that led Wheeler to be recognized as a pioneer of the Light and Space movement.

Documenting the more recent work of this towering figure of the op art movement, this book covers Riley’s experimentation with basic shapes, patterns, and color.

Bringing together two radically different painters, this book considers Albers and Morandi’s rarely-observed similarities (they both had a thing for repetition, for example) as they worked through the twentieth century.

With essays by Teju Cole and Hal Foster, History of Painting explores how Marshall’s paintings contend with the history of art and its implication in narratives of gender and race.

A skinny on political art created in the last 150 years, critic and curator Viveros-Fauné’s book contextualizes fifty artworks and their historical impact.

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

This biography of Neel—who stuck to her guns amidst immense changes and challenges—is a formidable story of what it means to be an artist on your own terms.

Not a painter herself, Woolf wrote about art seriously and widely, offering insights on the relationship between the artist and society.

As a young writer, Rilke sought advice from Rodin on how to live as an artist; decades later, he would mentor an emergent Balthus, in letters filled with encouragement and wisdom.

Making a Great Exhibition by Doro Globus and Rose Blake

A 2-in-1 gift for both the newish parent in your life and their child to enjoy—an illustrated, behind-the-scenes journey through the art world, with all its colorful characters.

Painted and sculpted over the course of the pandemic in 2020, Ancart’s trees, pools, mountains, and seas offer “portals into open air” after a long year stuck indoors.

For the more abstract-minded, give the gift of Mitchell’s landscapes—florid, bold strokes of color and feeling.

A master of appropriation, Levine’s work refuses patriarchal norms by reproducing and representing stereotypically male images, challenging accepted notions of authorship and ownership.

A staple of 1960s and ’70s San Francisco counterculture, R. Crumb’s complex comics rebel against traditional forms of art and being, addressing sex, religion, politics, and the obscenities of daily life.

A catalogue of Yuskavage’s small-scale paintings, Babie Brood demonstrates the artist’s transgressive paintings that challenge conventions of figurative painting and notions of subject and object, high and low, sacred and profane.  ●