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Alice Neel, Uptown by Hilton Als
Category: Art and Design
Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists, and more, Alice Neel created forthright, intimate, and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues. In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als ...Show more
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World by Evan Garza (Text by); Sarah Schulman (Text by); Wayne Koestenbaum (Text by); Alice Neel; Hilton Als (Text by); Alex Fialho (Text by)
Category: Art Books
Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in a queered, inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of her work is explored for the first time in this new catalogue. Curated by Hilton Als and organized in collaboration with the Estate of Alice Neel, At Home: Alice Neel ...Show more
Catherine Opie by Hilton Als et al
Category: Art
Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's foremost contemporary fine art photographersFor almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America. This unique artist monograph presents a compelling v ...Show more
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham; Hilton Als (Preface by)
Category: Fashion
The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after scho ...Show more
God Made My Face: a Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als (Editor); Stephen Best (Text by); Daphne A. Brooks (Text by); Teju Cole (Text by); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Text by); Barry Jenkins (Text by); Jamaica Kincaid (Text by); David Leeming (Text by); Darryl Pinckney (Text by)
Category: Culture
Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A ...Show more
Henry Taylor by Hilton Als (Contribution by); Charles Gaines (Contribution by); Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (Contribution by); Sarah Lewis (Contribution by); Zadie Smith (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Legendary artist Henry Taylor's first major monograph chronicles his life and work--the "visual equivalent of the blues." This definitive survey of over 200 of the painter's portraits and street scenes forms a personal and political portrait of society today. For three decades the iconic artist has work ...Show more
I Don't Remember by Hilton Als
Category: Biography
Hilton Als grew up in a corner of Brooklyn scarred by riots, racial segregation and sexual prejudice. As a young teenager, he began to glimpse possibility in the different cultures and ways of being he encountered through high school; in the black men and white men who found ways to be together. As a bu ...Show more
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion ; Hilton Als (Editor); Connie Butler (Editor); Ann Philbin (Introduction by); Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
Category: Languages and Reference
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics - including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer a ...Show more
My Pinup by Hilton Als
Category: Film & Tv
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It's delicious and it's got the kick of a mule, especially as Als swirls into his mix the downto ...Show more
Nothing but Flowers by Hilton Als (Text by); David Rimanelli (Text by); Helen Molesworth (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
An opulent, joyful homage to the many ways of painting flowers, from Charles Burchfield to Amy Sillman "Flowers are always working in the service of the passage of time," writes Helen Molesworth in the opening pages of Nothing but Flowers. "In all of the paintings in this book where flowers are depicte ...Show more
Painting Is a Supreme Fiction - Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 by Jesse Murry; Jarrett Earnest (Editor); Hilton Als (Foreword by)
Category: Art Instructional
Art writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of "painting as a poetic act"This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-93), an extraordinary thinker who believed in the capacity of painting to hold the complexity of human meaning. Painting Is a ...Show more