Two new books trace the history of Jewish art collectors and dealers in Europe.

In the 1990s, the New York–based Godzilla collective launched a campaign against the exclusion of Asian Americans from the US visual arts scene.

A new study explores how fin-de-siècle artists used posture to convey emerging understandings of human psychology.

Ai Weiwei's memoir looks at the parallels between his life as an artist-activist in China and that of his father, Ai Qing, a poet imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.

A new biography of the midcentury critic Harold Rosenberg offers an unconvincing case for his reappraisal.

A history of computing shows how the logic of graphics processing shapes our world—but doesn't explore this insight's implications.

Curator David Elliott argues that adopting Western-style trousers signaled new modes of living and art-making throughout Asia.

In her new essay collection, "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint", Maggie Nelson offers an unconvincing argument in favor of indeterminacy.

Janet Kraynak describes digitization's adverse effects on the art world, but doesn't reckon with the problems of the art world that made it vulnerable to these changes.

Campt's new book proposes a theory of art as a deliberate challenge to social-political reality.