Quick view Young, Gifted and Black - Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson MSRP: Now: $23.99 Was: Meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in this celebration of inspirational achievement—a collection of stories about changemakers to encourage, inspire, and empower the next generation of changemakers. Jamia Wilson has carefully curated this... MSRP: Now: $23.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: An accessible yet critical introduction to African photography and film from the mid-twentieth century to present day. The African Gaze is a comprehensive exploration of postcolonial and contemporary photography and cinema from Africa. Drawing from... MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was: 'An encyclopedic necessity for anyone interested in contemporary art.' - Vanity Fair 'We want people to see themselves… We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand.' - Alicia Keys Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and... MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Wangechi Mutu MSRP: Now: $54.95 Was: The first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her... MSRP: Now: $54.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Kerry James Marshall MSRP: Now: $54.95 Was: The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African American experience. Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James Marshall is one of the most exciting artists working today. Critically and commercially acclaimed,... MSRP: Now: $54.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Amy Sherald: The World We Make MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was: Tender yet compelling, Johnson's portraits of herself, her friends and her relatives are touchstones of Black figuration. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson (born 1959) creates large-scale drawings of Black people... MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Henry Taylor: B Side MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor’s... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Jordan Casteel: Within Reach MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: In her large-scale oil paintings, New York-based artist Jordan Casteel (born 1989) takes up questions of Black subjectivity and representation by examining the gestures, spaces and forms of nonverbal communication that underpin portraiture. “There is a... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Lorna Simpson Collages: (Art Books, Contemporary Art Books, Collage Art Books) MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: "Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors." —Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduction Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: The New Brownies’ Book reimagines the very first publication created for African American children in 1920 as a must-have anthology for a new generation. Expanding on the mission of the original periodical to inspire the hearts and minds of Black... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century Osei Bonsu MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: This deluxe hardcover survey, featuring profiles of 50 artists on the rise, is the definitive guide to contemporary African art. With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, setting sky-high auction records, and appearing in... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view As We See It: Artists Redefining Black Identity Aida Amoako MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black people from all corners of the globe. As We See It brings together 30... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: An upbeat, empowering, and important picture book! I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them. From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, comes a collection of poetry... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States, South America, as well as throughout the African... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view SEEN 007 MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Seen is a journal of film, art, and visual culture, dedicated to platforming nuanced and rigorous writing by and about Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally. Issue 007 highlights include: Ja’Tovia Gary and philosopher Dr. Joy James... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view My Hair Is Like the Sun by St. Clair Detrick-Jules MSRP: Now: $8.99 Was: My hair is like the sun . . . the stars . . . the ocean! From curls that wind like rivers to coils that shimmer like stars, this book featuring photographs of real children, and their natural hairstyles encourages little ones to see themselves reflected... MSRP: Now: $8.99 Was: Quick view
Local Author Quick view My Broken Language MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quiara AlegrĂa Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work... MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: An intergenerational story of family ties, cultural pride, and spelling bee victory following a young boy who bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish. As a boy prepares for his school’s Spanish spelling bee, he asks his grandmother for help... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view A New Kind of Wild by Zara González Hoang MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: This sweet author-illustrator debut celebrates imagination, the magic of friendship, and all the different ways we make a new place feel like home. For Ren, home is his grandmother's little house, and the lush forest that surrounds it. Home is a... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America A TOON Graphic by Liniers MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Classic Latin American folktales get an update in this new collection by celebrated author Liniers! New York Times bestselling author and Eisner Award winner Liniers brings his exuberant cartooning style and irrepressible sense of humor to the spooky... MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: A family joins the music of the Texas desert night in this tale of tradition and memory. It starts with a soft tapping, Uncle Eduardo drumming his hands against his dusty jeans. As the blush of sunset gives way to night in the desert, coyotes, cicadas,... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Reframing the Black Figure MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included in this brief introduction... MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now,” wrote James Baldwin. Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery,... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Juneteenth Is MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: At its root, this is a story of family and community. Vibrant illustrations capture the warmth and unity of Black families and Black communities in a portrait of beautiful joy. Both a story of celebration and a commemoration of freedom, this book honors... MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view From Slave Ship to Harvard MSRP: Now: $26.95 Was: From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records,... MSRP: Now: $26.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: Through a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history. This richly... MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view An Indigenous Present MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of... MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Multiplicity Blackness in Contemporary American Collage MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Building on a technique that has roots in European and American traditions, Black artists have turned to collage as a way to convey how the intersecting facets of their lives combine to make whole individuals. Artists have assembled pieces of paper,... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Art Essentials: History of African Art MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 75,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view On the Turtle's Back MSRP: Now: $25.95 Was: The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally... MSRP: Now: $25.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: African American history has produced countless exceptional heroes, leaders, and role models. The graphic novel, BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered!, tells the inspiring stories of 14 important Black Philadelphians, such as opera singer Marian... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully... MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have... MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Quick view