Recent Art Books

This archive list features queer feminist art books, exhibition catalogues and book projects.

• Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva: What Happens After – Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories (2025) (2/12/2026) - Ksenia M. Soboleva's book project, What Happens After, Art, AIDS and Lesbian Histories is the first art-historical study to focus on art and lesbian identity during the initial two decades of the AIDS crisis in the United States.
• Red Threads – the South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs (1/15/2026) - Video (0:22): A quick leaf through Red Threads (2004) by Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.
• Zanele Muholi Monograph – Book Review (1/15/2026) - Video (6:08): A leaf through Zanele Muholi Exhibition Book (Tate, 2020). Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer documenting the LGBT+ community in South Africa.
• Barnes & Noble – Annie Leibovitz on Women (2025 edition) (12/11/2025) - Video (43:54): Miwa Messer in conversation with Annie Leibovitz about her book Women (Phaidon, 2025) which is now in two volumes.
• Graphic Novel – Checked Out by Katie Fricas (11/20/2025) - Video (56:08): Jennifer Camper in conversation with Katie Fricas about her debut graphic novel, Checked Out (2025).
• Velshi Banned Book Club: “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel (11/19/2025) - Video (9:53): MSNBC interviwes author Alison Bechdel about her graphic novel Fun Home (2006).
• Queer Modernism: 1900–1950 (Hirmer, 2025) (11/8/2025) - New Art Book; Queer Modernism: 1900–1950 / Queere Moderne - Queer Modernism: 1900-1950 by Susanne Gaensheimer (Editor), Isabelle Malz (Editor), Anke Kempkes (Editor). Publisher: Hirmer, 2025
• AUTHOR TALK: THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALS at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (11/2/2025) - The First Homosexuals by Jonathan D. Katz offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art.
• Birthe Havmøller: 33 st mf (10/13/2025) - “33 st mf” is a handmade artist's book about Danish artist and queer woman Birthe Havmøller's home, a studio flat.
• Artists’ Books Unshelved – “Marriage Matters,” (2005) by Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry (10/5/2025) - Video (11:03): The featured Artist's books are “Vidai,” by Insiya Dhatt (limited number edition, 2022), and “Marriage Matters,” (2005) by Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry.
• Roni Horn | “A Dream Not Dreamt” (Steidl, 2025) (9/30/2025) - Video (5:52): Roni Horn discusses her artist's book A Dream Not Dreamt about her largest show to date held at HE Art Museum in Foshan, Shunde, China, in 2023.
• Frizz Kid (AKA Hana Shafi) Discusses Her Affirmation Series and New Book: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty (2023) (9/29/2025) - Video (6:29): Frizz Kid (AKA Hana Shafi), a Toronto-based illustrator and writer, discusses the beginnings of her affirmation series and her book "Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty".
• Nancy Princenthal: Agnes Martin – Her Life and Art (2015) (9/4/2025) - Video (58:43): In her biography, "Agnes Martin, Her Life and Art," (2015) New York-based critic Nancy Princenthal tells Agnes Martin’s extraordinary life story.
• Documentary in Dispute by Sarah M. Miller (2021) (8/15/2025) - Video (1:03:21): The 1939 publication 'Changing New York' is a landmark of documentary photography, yet no one has seen the book that Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland actually planned and wrote —until 2020, when Sarah M. Miller published 'Documentary in Disbute' (The MIT Press).
• Artist Books by Sarah Jane Moon (8/11/2025) - Sarah Jane Moon launced two new artist books: Portraits and Places in July 2025.
• Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II (2024) (8/5/2025) - Video (1:33): Monograph - Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II | PhotoBook Flip Through.
• Zanele Muholi: Hail the Dark Lioness (2018) (8/4/2025) - Video (20:11): Photobook review of Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (Aperture, 2018).
• East End Books Ptown presents: Liz Collins “Motherlode” in conv. w/ Eileen Myles “A Working Life” (8/4/2025) - Video (1:00:10): Queer artist Liz Collins with her new book "Motherlode" in conversation with queer writer Eileen Myles. Queer feminism, fine art, and fashion: the fascinating dynamic textile world of Liz Collins.
• Liz Collins: Motherloade (8/4/2025) - Liz Collins: Motherlode, retrospective exhibition July 19, 2025 - January 11, 2026 at RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA and monograph.
• Arles – Renée Jacobs Signing Her New Zine “In Italy” (7/7/2025) - Renée Jacobs will be signing her new photography zine 'In Italy' during the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France on Wednesday, July 9th 2025 at 5 pm.
• Ithell Colquhoun Between Worlds and Tarot Deck (7/3/2025) - Video (48:51): Sunique Tarot leafs through the book 'Ithell Colquhoun Between Worlds' and unboxes the Ithell Colquhoun tarot deck,
• “The Song of the Bestiary,” by Corinne Teed (6/26/2025) - Video (11:50) Artists' Books Unshelved features two queer publications: "The Song of the Bestiary," by Corinne Teed and "Ladies First," by Keith Smith.
• Paris Photo 2023 – Lola Flash (5/3/2025) - Video (17:50): Photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash discusses her 2023 book Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors (The New Press) and her creative practice at the festival Paris Photo in Paris, France.
• Masculinity Is A Mask by Alex Spear (4/26/2025) - Artist's statement about the new photography book by Alex Spear: 'Masculinity is A Mask', showing an androgynous US model Laura in the guise of her non-binary alter ego Trystan.
• Book Project: A Curated Archive of Queer Art in the Middle East (2023) (4/18/2025) - Yasmine Rifaii tells us that her book will include the works of varying visual queer artists from the Middle East. It will discuss the themes that comes up in the queer communities in the region.