Collection: Art

An illustrated history that celebrates the legacy of Black actors, films, and filmmakers from the silent era through today and explores the deeply embedded racism...

Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement brought together...

Originally published in 2000, Reflections in Black was the first single-volume work to collect the images of leading African American photographers--from the daguerreotype to the digital age....

'To explore a history of Black communities across centuries of art is a love letter to the practice, a gift of knowledge and an ode...

Lydia Hudgens’s debut photo book, featuring only plus-sized models: a first in fashion publishing.In a landscape where magazine covers are still dominated by skinny bodies...

The astonishing debut monograph from contemporary abstract expressionist painter Genesis Tramaine   Gimme Some Sugar is the much-anticipated first monograph from Genesis Tramaine, the renowned American...

In Transatlantic Disbelonging, Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition through the study of...

With intuition, compassion, prowess, or just plain smarts and determination, the exemplary individuals showcased here have enhanced the human experience across a wide range of...

Selections from the extraordinary Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, accompanying the highly anticipated opening of the institution's first-ever purpose-built museum Meaning Matter Memory is a keepsake...

A landmark survey of Black American photojournalism spanning 1945 to 1984, chronicling a critical period in the civil rights movements in the United States This...

Animated by its inimitable residents and cacophonous disorder, Los Angeles is brought to life through interventions by 27 emerging and under-recognized local artists   The...

A whimsical monograph dedicated to the first museum exhibition of Othello's vibrant, playful and spiritually charged ceramics   Miami-born artist Woody De Othello (born 1991)...

A richly illustrated account tracing the full arc of contemporary painter Suzanne Jackson's life and multifaceted artistic vision. First and foremost a painter, Suzanne Jackson...

Whether infused by movement or stillness, Mlengeya's black-and-white portrait paintings radiate both power and peace Born in 1991 in Dar es Salaam, Sungi Mlengeya captures...

From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation...

The first full retrospective of Whitten's dazzling and trenchant abstraction from the 1960s-2010s, which transformed the relationship between art, race and society Jack Whitten offered...

An oversize, faux-leather-bound volume presenting a focused selection of Basquiat’s energized depictions of heads and facesAmong the most recognizable motifs of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s oeuvre is...

An expansive survey of video, installation and more from Arthur Jafa, whose practice is “a counterpunch to anyone who wants to put people of color...

The first feature article that Parks both wrote and photographed is reassembled through previously unseen images, contact sheets, ephemeral material and Parks’ original manuscriptIn 1953,...

Accompanying the largest UK survey to date of work by the legendary Chicago-based figurative painterThis volume is the most extensive publication on Kerry James Marshall...

The collected contributions from Simone Leigh’s 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women’s intellectual and creative laborAs a part of the United States Pavilion for...

From V&A curators Rosalind McKever and Claire Wilcox, Fashioning Masculinities is a visually stunning exploration of how fashion shapes ideas of masculinity. At a moment...