Featured book: Master of the Two Left Feet
November 15, 2022
An account of the life and work of a once-famous self-taught American artist of the 1940s.
Category: Art
Elevating art books beyond the coffee table
October 5, 2022
The MIT Press has been publishing leading-edge art titles since our founding in the 1960s—and the list only continues to grow.
Art, visual culture, and politics in Berlin
August 11, 2022
Highlighting several recent MIT Press books at the intersection of art and politics in Berlin.
The MIT Press to publish the Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Project
February 22, 2022
The eight-book collaboration will provide a more nuanced and historically rich lens through which Tony Smith’s works and archive may be read today and by future generations.
The power of A Black Gaze
August 24, 2021
A conversation between Gabriela Bueno Gibbs and Victoria Hindley of the MIT Press acquisitions team on Tina Campt’s newest book, A Black Gaze.
Featured book: Carrie Mae Weems
July 6, 2021
The latest addition to the October Files series features essays and interviews that build a snapshot of the life and work of the famous Black photographer, and her place in the history of contemporary art.
Visual culture: Critical seeing for the 21st century
February 2, 2021
“Visual culture is never neutral, and is thus never without value.”
Breaching the borders between art and technology: In conversation with W. Patrick McCray
October 22, 2020
McCray, author of Making Art Work, argues that some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art were breached.