Lauren O'Neill-Butler portrays the ten case studies that comprise her book on artistic activism as qualified successes.

For an artist so concerned with systemic causes of exploitation, she refrains from expressing a stance on any given conflict.

The book is an artwork unto itself.

Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop, out from Verso, is utterly addicting.

Life was going to turn Flanagan's body inside out whether he liked it or not. So he found a way to like it.

Dan Nadel's new biography pobes the comic artist.

David Sheff's Yoko, from Simon & Schuster, tries to make the artist relatable, but sidesteps her fiery refusal.

Fred Ritchin's book The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI is out now from Thames & Hudson.

Blake Gopnik's book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes's involvement in Impressionim and the Harlem Renaissance.

Art historian and wordsmith T.J. Clark ponders the limitations of language in writing about art.