{"id":903889,"date":"2026-11-03T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903889\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:08:19","slug":"10-art-books-to-curl-up-with-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903889\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Art Books to Curl Up With This November"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celia Paul\u2019s latest essay collection from Venice, Salman Toor\u2019s painted worlds, the secret herbarium of Rosa Luxemburg, a new Roy Lichtenstein catalog for old fans, and more.<\/p>\n


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\n Books we’re reading as the year nears its end (edit Lakshmi Rivera Amin\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n

The publishing industry is already preparing for spring, but we’re still stuck on all the delights and challenges of this fall’s slate of art books. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara recommends an exploration of Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg’s secret garden of pressed plants, an art form in its own right; critic Natalie Weis sinks into painter Celia Paul’s kinetic prose. Catalogs on Salman Toor, Roy Lichtenstein, and more to discover below. \u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/p>\n

Roy Lichtenstein: Like New<\/a>, edited by Alex Da Corte and Meg Onli | Whitney Museum of American Art, November 3<\/p>\n

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In this publication, the Whitney frames its Roy Lichtenstein show<\/a> as a \u201cradical\u201d picture as \u201cnever before,\u201d made up of a \u201cnovel\u201d selection that is \u201cgenuinely new\u201d to an audience \u201cnewer than ever\u201d (emphasis the museum\u2019s). But the catalog, inspired by the composition notebooks the artist kept to gather inspirational clippings, doesn\u2019t feel academic or overstuffed, and includes beautiful plates \u2014 in other words, it\u2019s easy, clean, and classic, all the reasons we\u2019ve always loved Lichtenstein. \u2014Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n

Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice<\/a> by Celia Paul | New York Review Books, November 17<\/p>\n

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Celia Paul writes much like she paints, excavating shimmering insights from familiar subjects, in prose that is as haunting and luminous as her portraits. In this memoir, she uses a Venetian residency to examine her relationship with her deceased husband, mother, and first lover (the unnamed Lucian Freud). Grief, guilt, death, and desire stalk the artist through the city\u2019s narrow corridors; once more, Paul seeks self-knowledge through art, literature, and the act of painting. \u2014Natalie Weis<\/p>\n

Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion, Film, and Beyond<\/a> by Arlene D\u00e1vila | Duke University Press, October 13<\/p>\n

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Arlene D\u00e1vila begins where most mainstream criticism of Latinx art ends: by challenging the term itself. The professor and curator\u2019s ninth book continues her decades-long critiques of perfunctory \u201cLatinx representation\u201d through shrewd essays on indie filmmakers, fashion designers, and artists \u2014 such as Edra Soto<\/a> and Ela Troyano \u2014 who refuse the tropes imposed on their work and often operate outside of the Los Angeles and New York bubbles. Her insights are a reminder to question the narratives that \u201cmake Latinx culture palatable for mainstream culture,\u201d to always dig deeper. \u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin<\/p>\n

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