Watch out, Brooklyn Public Library — there are approximately five dozen intriguing art books coming out this season I’d love to get my hands on. But today, my fellow editors and I narrowed our list down to 15 forthcoming titles we think you should read this fall. From a catalog on Kent Monkman’s response to a Vermeer painting to essays by Elizabeth Alexander, find your next art book below.
More reads for your Labor Day weekend, including Matt Stromberg’s dispatch from the ill-fated Lucas Museum in Los Angeles and a glimpse into Rujuta Rao’s portable, modular studio.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
15 Art Books for Your Fall Reading List
Christine Sun Kim’s archive of deafness in pop culture, Guadalupe Rosales’s East Los Angeles memoir, Kent Monkman’s pulls back the curtain on a Vermeer painting — it’s choose your own adventure in art books this fall. We’ve got far too many novels, catalogs, essay collections, and photography books coming out over the next three months to pick from, but these 15 caught our eye. Read on for a story within a story, an artist’s take on Moby-Dick from our resident Mellville fan, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang, and much more. Happy reading! —Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
Nordic Textile Takeover: The Cold Stitch
Opening September 4 at Scandinavia House, this exhibition, workshop series, and symposium program returns in its third iteration alongside New York Textile Month.
News
Excavation efforts are set to begin within the next two weeks for President Donald Trump’s controversial “Great Triumphal Arch.“
Los Angeles
LA’s Lucas Museum Displays “Narrative Art” for the Few, Not the People
Friction, dissonance, and multiplicity are overall avoided in favor of superficial unity and a flattening of difference at George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s new institution. | Matt Stromberg
Community
A View From the Easel: Rujuta Rao
“My studio is presently portable, modular, and itinerant.”
Member Comment
—Lincoln Cushing on “15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall“
Hyper Links
- Anne Carson muses on the spiritual experience of attending a Rosalía concert — the crossover we didn’t know we needed.
- Novelist Barbara Kingsolver reflects on the wisdom and lessons of poet Wendell Berry, who passed away last week.
- A day in the life of the US Open’s unsung heroes: the ball crew.
From the Archive
What Was Hiroshima Like Before the Atom Bomb?
Wakaji Matsumoto’s photographs provide a glimpse of a world in the midst of transition into the next stage of global capitalism and Westernization. | AX Mina
Hamiltonian Artists and American University — Hamiltonian Teaching Artist Residency
A new Spring Semester Teaching Artist Residency offers practicing visual artists a paid MFA-level teaching post plus fully funded housing and studio space in Washington, DC.
Deadline: Priority deadline September 15 | hamiltonianartists.org
