Manga Matrix
Dan Starling, Manga Matrix, 2026. Book information: Books is pleased to announce the launch of Manga Matrix, a comic/manga artist book by Dan Starling, with contributions from Steffanie Ling, Deanna Li, Wake Cook, Siqi Yang, Tajliya Jamal, Natalia Soto, and Kobie Gingras-Fox. The book is risograph printed by Moniker Press. Manga Matrix is inspired by the […]
Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies
Erin Silver, Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies (Routledge, 2026). Book information: Through an international cohort of contributors, this book examines the rich and diverse strands of artistic and cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present day that contribute to elastic and ever-expanding histories of feminist art. The contributions facilitate an understanding […]
League Play Book
Germaine Koh and Simona Dolinská, eds., League Play Book (Nanaimo Art Gallery, 2025). Book Information: League Play Book serves both as documentation of Germaine Koh’s ongoing League project focused on play as a creative practice, and as a kind of workbook that could inspire more invention. The book is released in free digital edition and a limited-edition bookwork. […]
Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory
Jaleh Mansoor, Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction (Duke University Press, 2025). Book information: In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx’s concept of prostitution—a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor—to think about the confluences of generalized and […]
“Le Noyé” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography
Jillian Lerner, “Le Noyé [The Drowned Man]” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter. Los Angelos, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024. Book information: The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium […]
“The Freedom to Work” in Mary Cassatt at Work
Nicole Georgopuluos, “The Freedom to Work” in Jennifer A. Thompson and Laurel Garber, Mary Cassatt at Work. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024. Book Information: A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects. In her sensitive depictions of […]
“The Why of D.I.Y.” in A Handmade Assembly
A publishing project of the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery, A Handmade Assembly publication was initiated in 2020 as the tenth and final iteration of the beloved community gathering. This ambitious book was envisioned as an important continuation of the Assembly, rather than a commemorative volume of past events. From its beginning in 2011, A […]
‘”Please Don’t Let Your Ambition Sleep”‘ in Cassatt – McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds
Nicole Georgopulos, ‘”Please Don’t Let Your Ambition Sleep”: Cassatt’s Professionalism’ in Cassatt-McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds, edited by Caroline Shields. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Toronto, 2023. Book information: This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the work of two pioneering women Impressionist painters: the American Mary Cassatt and her Canadian contemporary Helen McNicoll. Renowned […]
Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation …
Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America
Taking Place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates […]