50 Years of Chicano Images

Books Newsletter

Art books we’re studying this spring, a deep dive into Frank O’Hara’s curatorial gig at MoMA, and extra.

I am unable to cease excited about this one picture of Dolores Huerta in 1974. She’s talking at a rally onstage, with a sweater vest bearing the long-lasting United Farmworkers brand — a white circle with a black thunderbird referencing the Mexican flag.

It’s certainly one of a trove of images in Chicano Camera Culture, a must-read on our guide checklist this spring, which occurs to incorporate a number of different titles that discover visible tradition and activism. Feminist artist and environmental activist Susan Simensky Bietila has a brand new memoir out, whereas tomorrow marks publication day for organizer and painter Molly Crabapple’s guide on the Jewish Bund (she’ll be giving a chat with Naomi Klein on the New York Public Library as the primary cease on her guide tour). We’ve additionally acquired a Theresa Hak Kyung Cha catalog on our checklist, marking the primary main publication on her work in over 20 years.

Find extra on your spring studying under, together with a enjoyable comedian by Nathan Gelgud a few guide chronicling poet Frank O’Hara’s curatorial work on the Museum of Modern Art, and remember to tell us what’s in your checklist this season!

—Lakshmi Rivera Amin

10 Art Books for Your Spring Reading List

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first catalog in 25 years, Molly Crabapple chronicles the Jewish Bund, a photographer captures a Black Southern waterway, and extra.

“Art doesn’t interest me. Artists interest me.” —Marcel Duchamp

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From Our Critics

Frank O’Hara’s Curatorial Eye

Though finest remembered for his poetry, O’Hara championed artists like Helen Frankenthaler and arranged a number of reveals on the Museum of Modern Art throughout the Cold War. | Nathan Gelgud

Frank O’Hara and MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator (2025) by Matthew Holman

Previews & Interviews

Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio

“He was assembling a force field of geometric objects,” mentioned Meyerowitz, whose guide of photographs exploring the painter’s well-known nonetheless lifes is being rereleased this spring. | Greta Rainbow

Nine Lessons on My Path From Engagement to Leadership

My profession has been outlined by a gentle effort to break down silos: between curatorial and academic work, between establishments and communities, between what museums have been and what they could but turn into. | Ryan N. Dennis

More Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz’s Wild Flowers Is a Reminder That the World Is Still Blooming

In its expanded re-creation, Meyerowitz’s picture guide makes incidental particulars the main characters. | Esmé Hogeveen