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Vincent Geyskens
An amply illustrated examination of Vincent Geyskens’ work exploring of the position of painting in contemporary society Vincent Geyskens examines the position of painting in contemporary society, engaging with...
Jasper Johns
Mind/Mirror
An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America’s most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably...
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"Great and Mighty Things"
Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection
The contemporary art world has been challenged and invigorated by outsider art—works by self-taught practitioners who, by definition, have little to do with mainstream art production, but are nonetheless actively engaged...
Ground/work
A lush visual document of the Clark Art Institute’s first-ever outdoor exhibition, featuring the work of six significant contemporary artists working in sculpture today A reverence for nature and a desire to further...
The Overseas Trade of British America
A Narrative History
A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy"We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities...
Gilgamesh
A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace “Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting,...
Urban Lichens
A Field Guide for Northeastern North America
A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as Chicago “A...
Jonas Mekas
The Camera Was Always Running
Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure Between 1950 and his death, the artist and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made more than one hundred radically innovative,...
Martine Syms: Neural Swamp
The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
New commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identity Produced for the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media by the...
Whistler to Cassatt
American Painters in France
A revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in France “Reveals the fertile creative ground Americans discovered in Paris and beyond.”—Judith H. Dobrzynski, ...