If you’ve been to New York City, there’s a good chance you’ve been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This memoir by a former museum security guard will allow you to see it with new eyes.
You’ll never take color for granted again after perusing Charles Bramesco’s Colors of Film, which explores the palettes used in 50 iconic films through four eras of cinema.
Stéphane Breitwieser stole more than 300 irreplaceable artworks. Journalist Michael Finkel now attempts to understand why this criminal aesthete hoarded those treasures in his attic.
Stephen Ellcock journeys through centuries of art and science via images that invoke the cosmos, the spiritual realm, the human body, geometry and much more.
Maira Kalman’s latest tender and revealing book combines free verse and prose with paintings of women holding things both real and intangible.
Curl up with the hefty Affinities and lose yourself in a delightfully imaginative, visionary game.
Hugh Eakin’s rapturous storytelling makes Picasso’s War a spellbinding, page-turning read about the fight to bring Picasso’s work to America.
Model, actor and activist Laetitia Ky tells her life story through the incredible hair sculptures she creates.
Catherine McCormack looks closely at four archetypes of women in art to examine not only how we look at art but also how we view women in general.
Come for the cocktail recipes, stay for the contemporary art history lesson you never got in school.
Winfred Rembert recounts gripping, often harrowing stories of growing up in Georgia, surviving a lynching and discovering art while imprisoned in a chain gang.
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