Whenever French 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is mentioned, it’s almost always as a counterpoint to her better-known “rival,” Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

In Border Wisdom, Ahmad Almallah embraces the fissures that language cannot mend.

After being afflicted with cataracts, the late critic and novelist reflected on the mechanics of sight.

Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.

If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.

A new book by former Met Museum archivist Jim Moske assembles a haunting and hilarious revue of artist obituaries from 1906 to 1929.

Nikesha Breeze’s A Mutiny of Morning reclaims African voices from the controversial novel.

Miss Chief, artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego, narrates the story of Turtle Island not as a settler allegory but from the perspective of the land itself.

Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock responded to Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain’s watercolors of his homeland, crafting an intimate portrait of the occupied region’s past and future.

In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.

Meret Oppenheim’s poetry, Pao Houa Her’s first monograph, the journals of Charles Burchfield, subway art around New York City, and more.

Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective.

Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking

Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.

In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.

He needed money to live, so that he could search New York City for paper airplanes.

A new monograph hones in on the artist-couple’s collaboration.

Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history.

Judging a Book by its Cover at Manhattan's Grolier Club pays homage to the highly specialized art form.

A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds.

In Nothing Ever Just Disappears, Hester wanders in search of kinship with queer bohemians such as James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and Kevin Killian.

Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.

Paul Thomas Murphy’s Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art provides a snapshot of the founding litigation of modern art.

In A Time of Witness brings poets, essayists, and authors to reinterpret pieces in the Stanley Museum of Art’s collection.

Leo Lionni’s wide-ranging practice was kaleidoscopic and rooted in a strong sense of justice.

Artificial Intelligence may efficiently sort images but loses out to a humanistic approach.

Art Monsters reassesses controversial feminist artists who turned to body-focused art to rebel against the societal norms eager to suppress them.

Though at times a puzzling read, artist Rasheed Araeen’s latest book critiques Western scholarship that ignores Islam’s influence on modern art.

Rose Marasco: At Home surveys the photographer's experimentations with everyday objects like shoes, cutlery, and a vegetable peeler.

In Filterworld, Kyle Chayka proposes that the algorithmically driven, primarily digital nature of how we consume culture has rendered culture homogenous.

Drawing on Blue provides a glimpse into the genesis of the tinted paper as a new vehicle for expression in European art.

From an artist’s moving children’s book to an index of Indigenous North American type, add these art titles to your 2024 reading list.

The secret life of doubles is rich fodder for storytelling, as Twinkind thoroughly demonstrates.

Our editors and contributors select their top art books of this year, featuring Pacita Abad, Nan Goldin, Marina Abramovic, Wendy Red Star, and more.

Erika Doss's new book Spiritual Moderns retells the story of modern art with a more honest look at how religion shaped it.

Kerry James Marshall and Simone Leigh monographs, a visual compendium of Russian-Soviet dachas, the story of a prolific art thief, and more. Hyperallergic readers can take 10% off all titles with discount code HYPERHOLIDAYS23.

Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.

Sonya Clark’s latest catalogue, the case for decolonizing drag, Coco Fusco speaks truth to power, a memoir of Brooklyn’s underground performance scene, and more.

In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.

The Book by Design is a real page-turner for people interested in how we came to turn pages.

In his final book, art historian B.N. Goswamy sketches a portrait of the Indian cat, drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim fables.

Fyodor Savintsev’s photographs of the small wooden cottages capture the aesthetics and ethos of “a slower, more traditional pace of life.”

Recently discovered work demonstrates DeFeo's status as a major contemporary photographer.

The New Brownies' Book promises to provide an experience any child can enjoy, but one designed especially for those of color.

KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell takes readers on a vibrant tour through the life of the filmmaker, activist, and transmedia futurist. 

Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, Nan Goldin’s new catalogue, a visual biography of Marina Abramovic, and more.

“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.

Dyed garments were once treasured items whose colors could take significant time, long distances, and untold fortunes to produce.

A new book explores collector of natural essences Mandy Aftel’s interactive archive of scent in Berkeley.

The curator, writer, and teacher’s memoir winds its way through his four-decade career, arriving, geographically and conceptually, back where he started.