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

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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.

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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

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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

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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