American Art - African American & Black in 2025

Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow by Allen-Paisant, Jason, Ofili, Chris

Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston by Shaykin, Rebecca

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Weathersby, Irvin

Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine): A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried Out by the Garde by Walker, Kara

Artistic Awakenings in Mixed Media: Monographs on Wangechi Mutu's Afrofuturistic Collages and Their Social Commentary by Brightsky, Sloane

The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism by

Ouattara Watts by

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Perry, Imani

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People (Large Print Edition) by Perry, Imani

Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands by Duncan, Keith

Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Inclusion at the Oscars by Arogundade, Ben

A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects by Awake, Robell

Cauleen Smith: Breaking Cinema: Experimental Film 2010-2023 by

Howard Smith by

Last Poems by Farris, John

Derek Walcott's Painters: A Life with Pictures by Fumagalli, Maria Cristina

Noah Davis by

Kayode Ojo: Eden by Moses, Serubiri, Ojo, Kayode, Haynes, Ebony L.

In the Studio: Jack Whitten by

John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity by

Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence by

Victor Ehikhamenor: Chronicles of the Enchanted World by Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu

Image and Belief: An Unfinished History of Black Artists by Parker, Rianna Jade, Lynne, Jessica

African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Majewska, Martyna Ewa

African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs: Opportunity, Access, and Community by Calo, Mary Ann

The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige by Acuña, Mariela, Peters Quinn, Allison

Jack Whitten: The Messenger by

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village by

Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest by

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers by

Njideka Akunyili Crosby by Molesworth, Helen, Das, Jareh, Akunyili Crosby, Njideka

Adam Pendleton: An Abstraction by

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight by

Reggie Burrows Hodges: The Reckoning by

E. Jane: Drenched in Light by

Elizabeth Catlett by

Blackness, Symbolism, and American Modernism: Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Johnson, Lori Nel

Rodney McMillian: The Land: Not Without a Politic by

Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community by Salsbury, Britany, Benay, Erin

Michael Richards: Are You Down? by

Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams by

David Hammons by

Mark Thomas Gibson by

Gimme Some Sugar by Tramaine, Genesis

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain by

Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art by Eshun, Ekow

Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi by

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California by

Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon by

Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young: Untitled (Structures) by

Latoya M. Hobbs: Carving Out Time by

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love by Pobocha, Paulina, Jones, Kellie

The World Before Racism: An Art Story by Farrington, Lisa

Set Me Free: The Good News of God's Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays) by Moore, Lecrae