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New Releases: Spring 2025

by Jon Spayde
February 14, 2025

Spring 2025

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A canoe bearing birdcages on wooden chairs and idols with horns on a spiritual journey through a blue night-scape

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight documents an installation that Saar, at age 97, created for the Huntington Museum in 2023, featuring a canoe bearing birdcages on wooden chairs and idols with horns on a spiritual journey through a blue night-scape.

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

By Betye Saar with text by Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Sóla Saar Agustsson, Hilton Als, Tiffany E. Barber, and Ishmael Reed; Foreword by Christina Nielsen
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2025
$29.95

This book documents an installation that Saar, at age 97, created for the Huntington Museum in 2023. Images of the haunting work—a canoe bearing birdcages on wooden chairs and idols with horns on a spiritual journey through a blue night-scape—join essays illuminating Saar’s long career, which combines the offbeat brilliance of multimedia artist Joseph Cornell with Afrocentric soul.

Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs

Edited by Julie Decker, with essays by Candice Hopkins, Heather Igloliorte, Julie Decker, Taqralik Partridge, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Laura Phipps
Hirmer, 2024
$60

The paintings of Alaska Native Kelliher-Combs evoke earth, skin, and other organic elements, and her sculptures are often mysterious gatherings of minutiae: 72 little tubes of found fabric tinted subtle colors, or blood-red strings hanging from Alaskan towns on a map. This comprehensive monograph illuminates her highly poetic work with poems by Taqralik Partridge, as well as essays from curators and artists.

Objects: USA 2024

By Kellie Riggs and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
R & Company and August Editions, 2024
$65

This eye-opening gathering of makers from R & Company’s triennial craft exhibition is organized by “archetypes of objecthood” rather than medium. Wooden furniture maker Minjae Kim and fiber artist Ferne Jacobs appear together as “Truthsayers,” or practitioners of slow, traditional processes, while glass artist Cedric Mitchell joins leather artist Steven KP as a “Codebreaker,” creating paradoxical “personal symbologies.”

Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale: 1912–1930

Edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego Skira, 2024
$80

The 135 works pictured and discussed here, taken from museums and private collections, tell the story of how the superb artisanship of Murano glass gradually made its way into the Biennale alongside painting and sculpture. Period photographs, drawings, and documentary material round out the picture of the emergence of artisanal glass as a fine art.

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