A painting by Lisa Yuskavage titled Night Classes at the Department of Painting Drawing and Sculpture, dated 2018-2020

Lisa Yuskavage, 2026. Photo by Jason Schmidt

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Both admired and censured for the in-your-face eroticism of her paintings of women, Lisa Yuskavage has emerged from the 1990s as one of the most important figurative artists working today. Called the "premier bad-girl artist" by 

 as "an extravagantly deft painter," Yuskavage is known for her oil paintings, loaded with color and emotional content, featuring languid young women with outlandish body parts.

The small paintings that make up this book, the first monograph of her work, are often the place where the characters from the artist's larger works come alive. Exploratory in nature, these paintings provide us with a uniquely intimate look at Yuskavage's creative process-allowing us to see how they have been a method of working for more than 20 years. Writer and director Tamara Jenkins's introductory essay is a work of biography and psychoanalysis, offering an up-close look at the forces behind her work. At once sexist and feminist, real and surreal, unsettling and seductive—and always technically accomplished—Yuskavage's work continues to generate buzz and controversy.

Lisa Yuskavage: Small Paintings, 1993–2004

A painting by On Kawara, titled MAY 11, 1967, dated 1967.

On Kawara, One Million Years (Past), 1970-1971, Page 2001

Shiuji Inomata

Jean-Luc Nancy

Osho

Texts by Shiuji Inomata, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Osho

 was published on the occasion of the artist’s third solo exhibition at David Zwirner in 2004, which presented a selection of date paintings, one from each of the past forty years. Also known as the 

 series, the artist began making his now signature date paintings in New York City on January 4, 1966. Available in hardcover, this catalogue includes texts by Japanese scientist Shiuji Inomata; French philosopher Jean Luc-Nancy; and Indian spiritual leader Osho.

On Kawara: Paintings of 40 Years

A still from a film by Francis Alys, titled Children’s Game #26: Kisolo, Tabacongo, DR Congo, dated 2021.

Texts by Francis Alÿs, Lynne Cooke, Alejandro Diaz, Tom Eccles, Dario Gamboni, RoseLee Goldberg, Laurence Kardish, Harper Montgomery, and Francesco Pellizzi

, marked the temporary move of The Museum of Modern Art from Manhattan to Queens in 2002. Presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the museum, it was a public parade involving over 100 participants who carried reproductions of some of the museum’s masterpieces and a living representative of contemporary art, Kiki Smith. This hardcover catalogue features extensive photographic documentation of the event as well as contributions and essays by the artist; the then Public Art Fund director Tom Eccles; curator Lynne Cook, among others.

Francis Alÿs: The Modern Procession

Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf-based photographer and conceptual artist, was born in 1958 and attended the Bechers's master class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. He embarked on a truly striking career as an artist with a stunning series of large-format photos of artist friends, all printed with astonishing sharpness. Not long thereafter he again made a splash on the art scene with his "Sternenhimmel/Stars at Night," a second series of photographs, this time of the nocturnal firmament, once more printed in large formats. 

Ruff's most recent work is devoted to a theme which, while being considered scandalous by the media, has won the highest awards the art world has to offer. In "Nudes," he focuses on pornography, or rather on stills taken from pornographic scenes he has found on the Web, and then processes them electronically before blowing them up to immense proportions. Digitally colored, alienated by blurring contours and at times eliminating focus, the content dissolves into more or less abstract fields of color, forcefully unnerving our perception, our expectations and our erotic fantasies. 

A short story by Michel Houellebecq, Ruff's dream author for the occasion, unequivocally points to what the photographer's pictures are about, namely the act of solitary surfing through artificial worlds, the distance of purported intimacy, sex and love in the age of the Internet and of swinger clubs. In other words, the end of Romanticism.

Thomas Ruff: Nudes

Frank Moore

Frank Moore: Between Life and Death, Twin Palms Publishers, 2002

In 1977 Frank Moore took a freighter from Montreal to Santander, Spain. He traveled through Spain, France, and Morocco, finally settling in Paris, where he obtained a residency in the Cité des Arts. Upon his return to New York, Moore began a decade-long involvement with modern dance, theater, film, and video that paralleled his development as a painter. The increasing devastation of the AIDS crisis through the eighties profoundly and irrevocably transformed his life and work. His work was included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Albright Knox Art Gallery.

Frank Moore: Between Life and Death

Luc Tuymans in his studio, 2022. Photo by Otman Q

Philippe Pirotte

 at David Zwirner in New York, this catalogue documents Luc Tuymans’s fourth solo show at the gallery. After its showing in New York, the artist expanded this body of work to exhibit at the Belgium Pavilion of the 2001 Venice Biennale, where he was chosen to represent his country.

 examines the colonial history of Belgium, by focusing on the colonization of Zaire, previously known as the Belgian Congo. In his 1999 book entitled 

De moord op Lumumba (The death of Lumumba),

 Ludo de Witte makes the allegation that various institutions, including the Belgian government, were responsible for the 1961 murder of the Congo’s first legally elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, shortly after gaining independence. As a result of this publication, the “Lumumba Commission” was set up to investigate the matter further.

The exhibition’s title refers to the derogatory nickname 

, i.e. beautiful boy, which was given to Belgian’s young King Baudoin by the Congolese, and which was promptly changed by the Congolese authorities to the more respectful and authoritative 

, i.e. beautiful, noble man. The painting entitled 

 is a life-size portrait of the 24-year old Baudouin in a crisp white suit, arriving for the first time in the Congo for a four-week triumphant procession in 1955. The authority suggested by Baudoin’s uniform and his medals is contradicted by the featureless youthful face of the king, and his awkward and uncomfortable pose.

Here Tuymans explores a politically charged subject matter by employing a subtle and remote realization of specific events and people. Although the subject matter in this work refers specifically to regional history, the artist’s choice of paintings for this group of work invites parallels to recent American history. The racial divide apparent in the United States, reverberates throughout this body of work.

Beautiful White Man

Luc Tuymans: Mwana Kitoko

Bruce Wagner

Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 

. In 1966 he changed from black-and-white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessor. John Sarkowski, when he was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, called Eggleston the ‘first color photographer,’ and the world in which we consider a color photograph as art has changed because of him.

William Eggleston: 2¼

This collection invites readers into the irreverent, boundary-pushing world of R. Crumb, one of the most influential cartoonists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together iconic characters, subversive narratives, and his unmistakably intricate linework, these books trace how Crumb revolutionized underground comics, energized graphic arts, and challenged conventions around politics and popular culture. Taken together, they offer a vivid, uncompromising portrait of an artist whose work continues to disrupt, provoke, and inspire.

brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb’s most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics, exemplifying the artist’s creative output over the twenty-five years following his early experimentation.

chronicles R. Crumb’s obsessions—from sex to the Bible, music, politics, and the vicissitudes and obscenities of daily life. 

R. Crumb Collection

A scuplture by Yayoi Kusama called Dancing Pumpkin dated 2020

Yayoi Kusama, 2021.  Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki

Spanning four beautifully designed books, the Yayoi Kusama collection offers an immersive journey into the artist’s singular world. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations, and poetry, these titles capture the radical imagination and boundless visual language that have made Kusama one of the most influential artists of our time.

Featuring the vibrant and dynamic work of Yayoi Kusama, 

is the perfect canvas for imagination. The paintings on the cover and endpapers of Kusama’s first Artist Journal provide the perfect motivation for any creative pursuit.

, Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic recollections, giving readers an intimate view into her creative process and the essential role language plays in her paintings, sculptures, and daily life.

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

 explores the monumental 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York through the specific lens of the visitor—illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite 

 at David Zwirner, New York—an all-white, domestic interior that viewers were invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors. This catalogue reveals the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolors.

Yayoi Kusama Collection

This set of six children’s books from David Zwirner Books embodies our mission to celebrate creativity in a fun, accessible way. Perfect for kids and adults alike, these beautifully illustrated, engaging titles make ideal gifts for families, teachers, and art lovers of all ages.

series of lift-the-flap books, geared toward children under the age of three, shares the different ways artists Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa view the world.

 series highlights a diverse group of artists and art workers, inviting young readers to explore creative ideas and discover the boundless possibilities of self-expression both in the classroom and beyond.

illuminate different elements of the art industry, showcasing the richness of print culture to a young audience in gorgeous tricolor illustrations.

Children’s Books (6 Book Set)

These four children’s books introduce young readers to the creative life, telling stories in a colorful, engaging, and age-appropriate way. Blending vivid illustrations with clear, accessible language, the series invites children to discover how art is made and who makes it.

Children’s Books (4 Book Set)

The two titles in the William Eggleston Collection honor the artist’s trailblazing role in the field of color photography and his lasting impact on contemporary visual culture.

, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist’s lens.

 catalogues the last major group of William Eggleston’s photographs to ever be produced using the dye-transfer method, the format in which he originally presented his work.

William Eggleston Collection

A sculpture by Ruth Asawa, called Untitled (S.175, Hanging Single-Lobed, Four-Layer Continuous Form within a Form), dated c. 1992.

Ruth Asawa with hanging wire sculpture, 1951. Photo © Imogen Cunningham Trust

The Ruth Asawa Collection honors the work and legacy of the American artist, educator, and arts advocate. These three meticulously designed volumes trace her extensive body of work—from her iconic wire sculptures to her works on paper—while situating her within postwar American art and highlighting her lifelong commitment to bringing art into the everyday.

 brings together a broad selection of her sculptures, works on paper, and more, demonstrating the centrality of Asawa’s innovative practice to the art-historical legacy of the twentieth century.

Revealing rarely seen work alongside her iconic looped-wire sculptures, 

 celebrates Asawa’s unique vision and intimate subject matter. The catalogue is a document of the breathtaking and surprising eponymous exhibition organized by Helen Molesworth.

 is a welcome reminder to find inspiration in the everyday object. The delicate works featured in the artist’s first Artist Journal beckon the inner artist to carve out time to look and create.

Ruth Asawa Collection

A gelatin silver print by Diane Arbus, titled Triplets in their bedroom, N.J. 1963, dated 1963.

This two-volume collection offers an unparalleled view of Diane Arbus, one of the most original and significant artists of the twentieth century. Together, the books examine her groundbreaking portraits across the breadth of humanity, underscoring the depth, rigor, and complexity of her vision alongside the rich archive of critical conversations it sparked.

 brings together forty-four photographs made in private places across New York, New Jersey, California, and London between 1961 and 1971, demonstrating the artist’s singular ability to enter private worlds.

 offers an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, charting the reception of the photographer’s work and providing comprehensive insight into the critical conversations, as well as misconceptions, around this highly influential artist.

Diane Arbus Collection

Discover the incandescent work of American abstract artist Joan Mitchell with this set of three books, featuring in-depth explorations of the artist’s bold paintings and lyrical compositions.

To define a feeling: Joan Mitchell, 1960–1965

 is dedicated to Mitchell’s remarkable paintings from 1960 to 1965, illuminating a pivotal chapter in the internationally acclaimed artist’s career.



 focuses on the years 1979 to 1985—a significant and deeply generative period within Mitchell’s decades-long career.



Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me

 spotlights Mitchell’s large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Joan Mitchell Collection

A portrait of Gerhard Richter by Werner Bartsch.

Photograph of Gerhard Richter collection books, published by David Zwirner Books

The Gerhard Richter Collection offers an in-depth look at recent work by one of the world’s most influential artists. Spanning painting, abstraction, and image-based experimentation, these titles celebrate Richter’s ongoing innovation and his mastery of complex, often highly technical processes. Together they provide a compelling portrait of an artist whose practice remains as rigorous, exploratory, and boundary-defying today as ever.

presents a suite of works on paper from 2023 that encapsulates and refines the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter’s artistic journey. Reproduced at actual size, the drawings encourage in-depth observation and inspire a compelling reimagining of abstraction.

 explores abstraction and chance in art and writing. An artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.

presents Richter’s last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture.

Gerhard Richter Collection, David Zwirner Books

Gerhard Richter Collection

Portraits. Luc Tuymans

Denise Scott Brown

Elizabeth Schambelan

By Denise Scott Brown. Introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan



This vibrant collection of essays by the iconic architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown captures the visionary mind that has transformed our understanding of contemporary aesthetics, semiotics, and experience.

Denise Scott Brown is a preeminent figure in twentieth-century architecture and urban planning, but her influence extends far beyond these fields. Her groundbreaking, deeply humanist approach to design considers the built environment as a shared, lived-in space, shaped by cultural, social, and historical structures and forces. She is widely known for her seminal 1972 text 

, coauthored with her partner, Robert Venturi, which gave form to knowledge that fundamentally changed how we understand the spaces we inhabit. Scott Brown’s writing, like her architecture, is eclectic, witty, and compelling, drawing upon theory and her own life experiences to reorient our attention toward the needs of everyday people.

This new addition to David Zwirner Books’s 

 series brings together approximately fifteen essays by Scott Brown that exemplify her spirit of inquiry. Together, they offer us an invitation to really see and think—and

then to act through writing, designing, and building. An introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan situates these essays within Scott Brown’s extraordinary career and underscores their continued relevance today as we seek to both determine and grasp the unfolding new worlds around us.

The first title in the 

 series to focus on the built environment, this volume expands the series’ driving investigation into reading the social, cultural, and architectural landscapes around us with renewed attention.

Essays on Architecture and Planning

Forms, Forces, Functions

Anne Wheeler

 presents complete facsimiles of the first five journals that the artist made alongside his renowned 

series, offering an unprecedented view into the method and complexity behind the artist’s Date Paintings.

 series—also known as the Date Paintings—in 1966. Through a disciplined and structured approach, Kawara transformed the ordinary fact of a date into a profound message, addressing not only the passage of time but the nature of consciousness itself. The artist meticulously documented the full series in corresponding Journals assembled at the close of each year, the first five of which are reproduced for the first time as full facsimiles in 

The artist’s Journals function as both an archive of and a companion to the Date Paintings. They document the color and format of each painting, log corresponding subtitles, and include photography that Kawara chose to represent that year’s production. They reveal the daily decisions and systems that shaped the series from its inception. Together, the Journals provide singular insight into one of the most influential bodies of work in conceptual art.

Published on the occasion of a 2027 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, 

 includes an introduction by Anne Wheeler, from the artist’s One Million Years Foundation, which situates the Journals within the broader significance of the 

series. This publication reveals a rarely seen dimension of this acclaimed body of work, foregrounding the artist’s intricate and exacting process.

1966–1970

On Kawara: Journals

Lucas Arruda at the print shop René Tazé, Paris, 2023. Photo by Matthew Avignone

Nicolas Gausserand

Christine Smallwood

Texts by Nicolas Gausserand and Christine Smallwood 

Celebrating Lucas Arruda’s landmark exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, this captivating catalogue showcases his luminous landscapes in the compelling context of the museum’s collection.



Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda creates landscapes that hover between the real and the imagined. For more than fifteen years, his ongoing 

 series of intimate, small-format paintings has explored light as a central, shaping force. “It is light that guides my painting,” Arruda explains, “creating intensity and giving rise to spaces that are neither abstract nor figurative.” While his focus on atmosphere and perception recalls impressionist painters, Arruda does not work from plein air studies or photographs. Instead, his images emerge from memory and imagination—interior visions that feel both timeless and deeply personal.

This publication accompanies 

, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in France, which was held at the Musée d’Orsay in 2025. For the exhibition, Arruda selected works by nineteenth-century masters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley to appear alongside his own, opening a dialogue across centuries. An essay by the curator Nicolas Gausserand illuminates these connections, tracing the affinities between Arruda’s contemporary practice and the impressionist legacy. The writer Christine Smallwood explores in a new essay how light figures in Arruda’s landscapes to create a sense of timelessness that has a magnetic effect on viewers. 

Lucas Arruda: Qu'importe le paysage

Elaine Scarry

ekphrasis

Acclaimed theorist and scholar Elaine Scarry uncovers profound connections between color and our intuitions about mind, spirit, and the immortal through readings of works by Proust, Woolf, and Murasaki, offering fresh insights into the interplay between language and the mysterious image-making power of the mind.

How do writers summon color into being—not only in the worlds they depict, but in the minds of their readers? Unlike the visual arts, literature has no physical medium; its images instead emerge on the reader’s mental retina. In this new commission from David Zwirner Books, Elaine Scarry blends literary analysis with contemporary neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and philosophy to investigate this phenomenon of imagining color.

Through close readings of texts by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Lady Murasaki, and the medieval Pearl poet, Scarry explores how the brain conjures hues and sensations without the eye encountering actual pigment or light. Drawing from classic experiments on imagination, Scarry reveals the surprising ways literature triggers quasi-physical responses, as words transform into vivid, sensorial experiences.

 series’ exploration of how language gives form to visual experience, showing that literary description can summon colors and images in the mind’s eye.

Imagining Color: Elaine Scarry, front cover

Imagining Color

Yu Nishimura. Photo by Takashi Homma for MARFA

Contributions by Ryoko Sekiguchi, Estelle Zhong Mengual, and Elsa Coustou



Published to coincide with Yu Nishimura’s exhibition 

this monograph explores the sensitive world of the artist’s paintings.

 highlights the artist’s explorations of the landscape—a space inhabited by presences and often bordered by the sea. Whether viewed from a train window or hidden by trees or houses, the sea has been a constant presence in Nishimura’s life since his childhood. Conceived as a meditative stroll along the seashore, brings together a body of work comprising fifty artworks, ranging from drawings to large-scale paintings, created over the last ten years. In his works, as in our memory, the imaginary merges with reality in enigmatic representations in which the locations permeate and haunt the figures.

The book also includes photographs and personal documents, as well as previously unpublished contributions by Ryoko Sekiguchi, Estelle Zhong Mengual, and Elsa Coustou, the exhibition’s curator.

Yu Nishimura: Towards a Sea

Contributions by Yoshitomo Nara

A new edition of the classic book by Yoshitomo Nara first published in 1999, 

 has it all: striking paintings that return the viewer’s gaze, whimsical drawings and doodles, and sculptural works that breathe life into diverse materials and spaces. Nara’s signature caricatures range from adorable and sweet in appearance to grouchy, chiding, or just plain sinister. Some of them hold knives. Nara first emerged in the art world during Japan’s pop art movement in the 1990s, and although the imagery of Japanese manga and anime is often mentioned in reference to his work, he deftly subverts this interpretation through a juxtaposition of evil and innocence.

Yoshitomo Nara: Slash with a Knife

A detail from a painting by Oscar Murillo, titled manifestation, dated 2019.

Oscar Murillo in his studio, 2022. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Edited by Emily Pethick with Sarah Demeuse. Texts by Amanda Carneiro, Rosalie Doubal, Yasmijn Jarram, Oscar Murillo, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Emily Pethick, and María Belén Sáez de Ibarra

A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced from 2019–2026.

Developed in association with two recent major solo exhibitions in Mexico at MARCO, Monterrey and the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, the book brings together bodies of work that were produced in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, the US, Europe and beyond. This includes the monumental participatory installation, 

, which occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in summer 2024. The book charts the evolution of a number of concepts and elements that run through this particular installation and Murillo's wider practice, including references to bodies of water, such as the flood and the swamp; methodologies of social mapping, which have grown out of the 15-year project 

; and a unique form of abstraction that lets in, and responds to, forces that are playing out in the world. The publication itself is rooted in lived experience, specific geographies, and ecosystems, which include the places in which Murillo spends time, and the communities that he is close to, La Paila and London. 

Texts have been commissioned by authors who are close to Murillo's practice and have been actively involved in the shaping of the bodies of work featured: Amanda Carneiro, Rosalie Doubal, Yasmijn Jarram, Oscar Murillo, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Emily Pethick, and María Belén Sáez de Ibarra. Designed by Manuel Raeder Studio, the book includes extensive imagery of Murillo's practice, including of his most recent solo show at DAS MINSK and The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Collective Osmosis (2026) and his site-specific installations at Castello di Rivoli and the 36th São Paulo Bienal (both 2025–2026). The book also features a unique intervention into the printing process in Berlin whereby pages have been inscribed by a group of volunteers from Berlin-based community group, BENN Mierendorffinsel.

Oscar Murillo: Social Cataracts / Ceguera Social

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