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        Glenn Ligon

        Glenn Ligon

        Glenn Ligon

        by Huey Copeland

        ISBN: 9780262052627

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 21, 2026

        How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
        ... E Prini

        ... E Prini

        ... E Prini

        Edited by Luca Lo Pinto

        ISBN: 9781915609847

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 14, 2026

        This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini and his radical approach to art.
        Forty-Four Esolangs

        Forty-Four Esolangs

        Forty-Four Esolangs

        The Art of Esoteric Code

        by Daniel Temkin

        Foreword by Allison Parrish

        ISBN: 9780262553087

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 23, 2025

        A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?

        Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Diego Villalobos

        ISBN: 9781915609731

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        On the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
        Pervert or Detective?

        Pervert or Detective?

        Pervert or Detective?

        by Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie

        With Marie Canet

        Introduction by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen

        Afterword by Susan Finlay

        ISBN: 9781949484120

        Publisher: no place press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        Artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power and desire in a provocative conversation that probes the material erotic, appropriation, and sex.
        Salamander’s Wool

        Salamander’s Wool

        Salamander’s Wool

        by V Manuscript

        ISBN: 9781965874103

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: March 11, 2025

        A swirling collection of occultic verse and calligraphic art.
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        by Dexter Sinister

        ISBN: 9781915609069

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 23, 2024

        The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky.
        Catastrophe Time!

        Catastrophe Time!

        Catastrophe Time!

        Edited by Gary Zhexi Zhang

        ISBN: 9781913689674

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: September 5, 2023

        A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe.
        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        by Rye Dag Holmboe

        Photographs by Joschi Herczeg

        ISBN: 9780262047623

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 25, 2023

        An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy.
        Proof of Work

        Proof of Work

        Proof of Work

        Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021

        by Rhea Myers

        ISBN: 9781915103048

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        A beautifully produced anthology of crypto-artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers's pioneering blockchain art, along with a selection of her essays, reviews, and fictions.
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