Edited by Suzanne Barbezat, Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters is a collection of the artist’s correspondence illuminated by Kahlo’s unique spirit. Barbezat was inspired to compile a selection of Kahlo’s correspondence while researching... Read More

"Toi Te Mana" is a definitive survey of Māori art written by three Māori scholars and artists—Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis, and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. The assumption of art history—that an artwork is more than a beautiful object;... Read More

In his memoir "Portrait in Red", L. John Harris pursues multiple avenues (and delightful detours) in an attempt to solve an art mystery in Paris. Harris, who attended art school at Berkeley in the 1960s, arrived in Paris on magazine... Read More

This stunning monograph highlights “matriarch of Indigenous fashion” Dorothy Grant’s work, which blends traditional Pacific Northwest Indigenous designs and shapes with haute couture. The book accompanies a retrospective exhibition... Read More

With its vibrant and bespoke images, "Edithe Beutler" is an eye-catching biographical art book. C. J. Cook and Robert L. Harned’s conscientious biography of an artist who made the South Pacific her home, "Edithe Beutler", traces the... Read More

Amy Lyford’s interpretive biography "Exquisite Dreams" covers artist Dorothea Tanning’s life and remarkable range of work. Born in 1910, Tanning recalled her Galesburg, Illinois, childhood as being a “good one.” She later found a... Read More

Writing ignites “a politics of attention” in Danielle Dutton’s literary, unconventional essay collection "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other", whose entries are bound by energy, sharp awareness of the world’s dangers, family... Read More

In "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa", Noah Charney reveals fascinating details about the beguiling masterpiece’s artistic and social history, including its infamous 1911 theft and two years’ absence from the Louvre. The book includes... Read More