Hilton Als

A collection of analyses on literature, art and music by the award-winning author of The Women shares cultural, meditative insights into race, gender and history that encompass a diverse range of subjects from Truman Capote and Louise Brooks to Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor.

White Girls

A series of portraits analyzes the role that sexual and racial identity have played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects

The Women

My Pinup

Jon Lewis

Leon F. Litwack

Lynching Photography in America

Without Sanctuary

Robert Gober

Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. In the years since, his reputation has continued to grow, commensurate with the rich and complex body of work he has produced. Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive large-scale survey of the artists career to take place in the United States, this publication presents his works in all mediums, including individual sculptures and immersive sculptural environments, as well as a distinctive selection of drawings, prints, and photographs. Prepared in close collaboration with the artist, it traces the development of a remarkable body of work, highlighting themes and motifs that emerged in the early 1980s and continue to inform the artists work today. An essay by Hilton Als, and an in-depth chronology with extensive input from the artist himself, foregrounds images from Gobers archives, including many neverbefore- published photographs of works in progress.

The Heart is Not a Metaphor

"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.

Okwui Enwezor

Lorna Simpson

Robert Atwan

The award-winning critic and essayist Hilton Als picks the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.

The Best American Essays 2018

David Salle

Bears, Interiors

Museum of the City of New York

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York and the centennial of the consolidation of the city's five borroughs. The rich visual tale (portraits, views, prints, and photographs spanning four centuries) is interwoven with essays by noted New York City authors on such themes as architecture and urbanism, fashion, theater, cultural diversity, and parks and open spaces. Commentaries by the Museum's staff on the illustrations offer a unique perspective on the city's unique history of urban growth and dynamism. Includes an index of the illustrations but not of the essays. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Images and Stories from the Museum of the City of New York

Our Town

A staff writer for "The New Yorker" and author of "The Women" presents a brilliant discussion of James Baldwin and two intellectual worlds, black and Jewish. Through his portrait of both devastating and inspiring intellectual connections, Als offers a narrative on disenfranchisement and the complex roles that race and religion play in the definition of a self.

The Group

Andy Warhol

Jean Michel Basquiat

Collaboration Paintings

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat

James Elkins

Harold Eugene Edgerton

Roth Horowitz (Firm)

Exhibition catalog of photographs taken with a rapatronic camera of nuclear tests during the 1950s by Harold E. Edgerton with Herbert Grier and Kennth Germeshausen. Also included are photographs of Hiroshima taken by an anonymous photographer shortly after the 1945 bombing.

Documenting the Bomb

After and Before

Shows examples of how Warhol's art from various periods of his career influenced the fashion industry

Glamour, Style, Fashion

The Warhol Look

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Charlie Porter

Frank Walter

Barbara Paca

Explore Frank Walter’s relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. “Nothing seems to be reworked—it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without being adjusted, revised, or fussed over.” —Hyperallergic Influenced by his studies of agriculture and the sugar industry in the former British colony of Antigua as well as in England, Scotland, and West Germany, Walter created work inspired by his thoughts, knowledge, journeys, and surroundings—work that encompassed painting, drawing, writing, sculpture, photography, and sound. His paintings—tender, quiet, and lush—transcend the traditional tourist’s view of island life in favor of perspectives that explore how and why we look at where we are. Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition at David Zwirner, this catalogue includes an introduction by the show’s curator Hilton Als. Barbara Paca, the leading expert on Walter, writes a text detailing her personal experience meeting Walter and being in his presence. An essay by Charlie Porter takes readers on a walk as he muses about Walter’s life and the nature depicted in his paintings. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro travels to Antigua to explore the history of the island and Walter’s lasting impact there.

By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter

Ed Atkins

Rosi Braidotti

Margot Norton

Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Gary Carrion-Murayari

Lisa Phillips

Beatrix Ruf

Cindy Sherman

Natasha Hoare

Yilmaz Dziewior

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Hassan Khan

Nida Ghouse

Daria Martin

Pipilotti Rist

Laure Prouvost

Natalie Bell

Hendrik Folkerts

Ragnar Kjartansson

Anri Sala

Klara Lidén

Helga Christoffersen

Cally Spooner

Francesca Altamura

Joh Akomfrah

Jonathas de Andrade

Arju Appadurai

Camille Henrot

Maha Maamoun

Aleya Hamza

Cheng Ran

Mounira Al Solh

Eva Heisler

Rya Trecartin

Elodie Evers

Wong Ping

Memories of the Future

Strange Days

Provocativa talvez seja a definição mais justa para a escrita de Hilton Als, crítico da revista The New Yorker que escreve sobre teatro, cinema, música, artes visuais e comportamento há mais de trinta anos. E não apenas quando ele trata de temas em si polêmicos como aids e pornografia, mas principalmente quando os assuntos são amor, amizade e morte. Garotas brancas é seu primeiro livro com ensaios inéditos, boa parte deles perfis de personagens centrais da cultura pop do século 20 misturados à própria vida do autor. O livro, porém, começa com um longo texto autobiográfico, que inaugura um estilo singular. Somos capturados pela história de seu longo e idiossincrático romance com um homem mais velho, que se confunde com referências culturais as quais marcaram toda uma geração. Transitando entre os fatos, Als trata de estética, gênero, sexualidade e negritude, e exibe uma capacidade analítica aguda ao refletir sobre a trajetória de artistas como Michael Jackson, Eminem, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor, Louise Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, e também sobre figuras menos conhecidas, mas igualmente brilhantes, como Louise Little, mãe de Malcolm X, e o editor de moda da revista Vogue norte-americana, Andre Leon Talley. Algumas dessas personagens são "garotas brancas", uma definição fugidia, que dá título ao livro e vai ganhando contorno ao longo dos textos. Hilton Als, filho de imigrantes de Barbados que sempre viveu em Nova York, faz da cidade também uma figura central do livro. Criado em uma família negra de classe média, sua vida e obra são repletas de ambivalências e indignação. Talvez, por seu autor ser atacado com palavras como "você é muito gordo, você é preto demais, um horror, um horror!", ou acusado de ser sensível demais para o mundo em que nasceu, Garotas brancas seja uma expressão brilhante do multifacetado início do século 21.

Garotas Brancas

Jonathan Lethem

Katy Siegel

Rosalyn Drexler

Rosalyn Drexler, I thought to myself... She'd been praised by Donald Barthelme and Norman Mailer and Annie Dillard and Gloria Steinem and somehow shrugged it all off and stayed underground, irascible, implausible...she touched Pop, she touched Pulp, she touched Porn, she appropriate and satired and surrealled and film-noired, all with an intimacy and eccentricity that made the work a genre of its own.

Who Does She Think She Is?

Peter Doig

"No Foreign Lands" is the first publication to examine in depth the conceptual underpinnings of Doig's oeuvre. Particular attention is given to the importance of motifs, themes and variations in his work, explored in over 200 paintings and works on paper from the past 13 years, among them new works never before published.

No Foreign Lands

Richard B. Woodward

An-My Lê

An-My Le was born in Vietnam in 1960 and came to the United States as a political refugee at age fifteen. She returned to Vietnam several times in 1994-98, creating stunning large-format, black-and-white photographs, expertly printed in a middle-gray scale reminiscent of Robert Adams. These images do not address the war specifically, but rather represent Le's attempt to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape that now confronted her. The war haunts the images in eerie metaphors: dozens of kites double as dive-bombing planes; crop fires and construction sites recall napalm and mass graves. In 1999 Le began working with Vietnam War reenactors in Virginia who restage battles as well as the training and daily life of soldiers - both Viet Cong and American GIs. For four summers, she not only photographed but participated in battles of the Vietnam War restaged on her adopted American soil. Relating to both documentary and staged photography, the work is both aesthetically rigorous and conceptually challenging. Soldiers at rest give themselves up to portraiture, while battle compositions recognizable from classic war photojournalism possess the qualities of a dream. Most recently, Le has photographed exercises performed by the U.S. military in the American desert in preparation for maneuvers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Small Wars collects these three eloquent series in one volume.

Small Wars

Hilton Als

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