You can almost hear the scenes that unfold across Baya Mahieddine’s canvases, sensorial riots of color and linework visualizing women’s joyous, musical, and imaginative everyday lives.
You can almost hear the scenes that unfold across Baya Mahieddine’s canvases, sensorial riots of color and linework visualizing women’s joyous, musical, and imaginative everyday lives. The first biography of the self-taught trailblazer, which arrives over two decades after her death, is one of 18 books our editors and contributors are itching to read this fall. Among them are Peter Forshaw’s Occult, for fans of mysticism and our seasonal Tarotscope; Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, for readers with art and motherhood on their minds; and Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, for poets with a soft spot for Hilma af Klint. See the full list below for more recommendations, and let us know what you’ll be adding to your to-be-read pile. Our contributors were also engrossed in books that reframe stories we think we know — a perennial question artists are uniquely positioned to tackle. Shameekia Shantel Johnson reviews an anthology on the built environments that mapped Malcolm X’s political and personal trajectory, while Greta Rainbow reports on a new tome redefining the visual story of mass incarceration. And before you dig into more below, mark your calendars for nationwide Banned Book Week events continuing through Saturday, from reading challenges to events at your local library. I hope to revisit some essential reads and graphic novels like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis if time allows (though, when it comes to reading, does it ever really)? Be sure to check out our new round-up of other upcoming art book events, including the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s poetry reading inspired by artist Shilpa Gupta and a talk marking the publication of a new Helen Frankenthaler monograph. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | |
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| | | Poems inspired by Hilma af Klint, a fictional account of Peggy Guggenheim’s life, and the first biography of Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine are among the titles we’re most excited about. |
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| | What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art. | AX Mina |
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| | Though it glosses over his misogyny, Michael Peppiatt’s biography reflects Giacometti’s uncanny ability to capture the energy of ancient art in a modern format. | Bridget Quinn |
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| | A new essay collection contextualizes the activist’s life through the physical spaces that nurtured him, like Yuri Kochiyama’s apartment-turned-community center. | Shameekia Shantel Johnson |
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| | With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics. | Greta Rainbow |
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| | Paolo Cirio sues the fossil fuel industry on behalf of the environment in his latest book and body of work. | Caroline Ellen Liou |
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BOOK TALKS & EVENTS | | Pace Prints and Dieu Donné launch Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp in New York City on Tuesday, September 24. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) in Wisconsin partners with Monsters of Poetry for a reading inspired by Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt on Thursday, September 26, to coincide with Banned Books Week. In Detroit, Source Booksellers celebrates the career of letterpress printer Amos Kennedy, Jr., the subject of Hyperallergic Tremaine Fellow Angelina Lippert’s curatorial project, and the launch of the new book Citizen Printer on Friday, September 27. Gagosian and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation celebrate the revised and expanded edition of John Elderfield’s monograph on the artist with a talk at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York Universityon October 9. |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | | Black history and culture institutions are stepping in to fill the gaps with uncensored and community-oriented programming. | Rhea Nayyar |
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