Not for sale in Estonia! Ever since the early 1970s, sculptor Charles Ray's protean practice has yielded some of the most memorable objects and experiences in contemporary art, causing us to confront, as Peter Schjeldahl has written, "elegant, dead...

Typography is a fundamental element in contemporary design. Beyond their purely aesthetic function, the font serves to reflect an idea, mood or simply define the identity or personality behind a product or a piece, making a vital difference to the vi...

This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...

Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition team climbed...

Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...

From Cubism to cartoons, this book of eye-popping art and engaging activities introduces young readers to modern art. Picasso, Chagall, Calder, Lichtenstein, Hockney – these artists and the others profiled here offer a world of interest to children....

Maria Lassnig is one of the most radical women artists of our time: her self-portraits depict her with sagging breasts, wearing a pot on her head or even as a dumpling. She calls her works "body-consciousness paintings", and what they show is rarely...

This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation – the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories – as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists working in a...

The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artefacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s...

Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...