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We are loving the new @hyperallergic monthly guide to the best English-language art books, in partnership with @bookshop_org in support of small booksellers! Props to Lakshmi Amin for this first list, including three of our favorite recent releases:⁠ ⁠ 'I Am Sparkling: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients, Mombasa, Kenya, 1940–1980' by @isolde_brielmaie with text by @wangechimutu @wangechistudio and published by @damiani_books⁠ Mallory Cohen writes: "These images pose potent questions about the problematic conflation of whiteness and modernity, and the racist colonial ideals that persisted amidst the fanfare of the independence era."⁠ ⁠ Cyberfeminism Index, edited with introduction by @mindyseu Foreword by Julianne Pierce of @vns_matrix Afterword by @ellerustle published by @inventorypress⁠ An index in the true sense of the word, more than 1,000 excerpts from existing writing on feminist approaches to technology and media provide countless entry points into this complex body of thought, spanning 1991 to 2020.… interrogates the corporeal, racialized, queered possibilities of the digital and technological. ⁠ ⁠ @betyesaar Black Doll Blues with foreword by Julie Roberts. Text by Rachel Federman, Katherine Jentleson. Interview by @maddy_inez and published by @robertsprojects⁠ In the midst of the 2020 pandemic lockdown, assemblage artist Betye Saar took to the medium of watercolor. [These are gathered here, along with] earlier works, interviews, and reflections on the personal and political significance of … her collection of Black dolls.⁠ ⁠ Read the full reviews via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @laxmiamin17 @juliealisonroberts #hyperallergicbestbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpc4TV3uOAY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Aha! Among the @hyperallergic best-of-2022 booklist, here are five from our list that "informed and broadened our worldviews in 2022."⁠ ⁠ 'Henry Taylor: B Side' from @delmonico_books & @moca ⁠ "Slyly political paintings that pointedly voice the dilemma of being Black in the United States…"⁠ ⁠ 'Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All?' from @kasmingallery⁠ "Instead of the familiar scenes of oneiric domesticity, there are dark, turbulent swirls of color in which human forms emerge only as ghostly, half-seen shapes."⁠ ⁠ 'William Eggleston: Chromes' from @steidlverlag⁠ "Eggleston is that rare artist who invents the visual world anew with nearly every image."⁠ ⁠ 'Amoako Boafo' from @robertsprojects⁠ "Boafo charges these sitters with an undeniable presence so we can readily believe we are there in the room where the portrait is taking shape."⁠ ⁠ 'Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic' from @soberscove⁠ "Each contributor, whether through an interview, project description, visual essay, breathing exercise, or other offering, attempts to deconstruct the harms wrought by structural and systemic racism, and our participation in it."⁠ ⁠ Read the full reviews via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #hyperallergicbestbooks #bestbooks2022 #bestartbooks2022 #hyperallergicbestartbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDF_0oJh2k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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