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

René Zechlin

Max Dax

Kim Gordon

Ulrich Loock

Robert Eikmeyer

Foreword by René Zechlin. Essays by Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, Kim Gordon, and Ulrich Loock

The definitive collection of Raymond Pettibon’s album covers, uniting art and music in one powerful visual history. Featuring work for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, and many others, this volume traces the artist’s bold influence on alternative culture from the late 1970s to today.

Throughout his decades-long career, Raymond Pettibon has remained deeply engaged with the world around him, whether through biting political satire of American geopolitics or poetic meditations on surfing and baseball. Pettibon’s aesthetic and political sensibilities originated in the punk scene that thrived in Southern California, the artist’s first home, in the late 1970s and 1980s—evidenced in his collaborations with bands such as the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Saccharine Trust. Among the most iconic works featured in this collection is Pettibon’s four-column logo design for Black Flag. His distinctive artwork appears on albums for a wide range of legendary musicians, including Iggy Pop, Foo Fighters, and Lana Del Rey, among many others.

 spotlights the artist’s enduring impact on the music industry, presenting for the first time every record, CD, and cassette cover since 1978 that features his artwork. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, this catalogue features more than two hundred works from the Stefan Thull Collection. With essays by Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, and Ulrich Loock, and a 1985 

 essay by Kim Gordon, the book includes a catalogue raisonné of Pettibon’s album artwork, an essential resource for fans, scholars, and collectors of contemporary art and music history alike.

Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon, Album Covers

Luigi Magnani

Stefano Roffi

Alice Ensabella

By Luigi Magnani. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Preface by Alice Ensabella. Introduction by Stefano Roffi

The Italian painter Giorgio Morandi is recounted as a friend and artist in this memoir by Luigi Magnani, an art historian and devoted collector of Morandi’s work

One of the most beloved and critically acclaimed artists of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi painted serial and permutational arrangements of everyday objects that elevated the quotidian into the sublime. In 1940, he struck up a decades-long friendship with entrepreneur, musicologist, art historian, and collector Luigi Magnani.

is the first full-length English translation of Magnani’s memoir reflecting on his bond with the artist and his long-standing academic and personal interest in Morandi’s paintings. Magnani recounts the artist’s aloofness from artistic trends and his dedication to painting for a small, discerning audience. He locates Morandi within the art-historical canon as well as chronicles their artistic and intellectual kinship, which led to a unique, rich collection of Morandi’s work at Magnani’s villa in Mamiano, now the Magnani Rocca Foundation. Magnani’s personal collection of Morandi’s work was on view at David Zwirner, New York, in 2025. Originally published in 1982 in Italian, this memoir is accompanied by a new preface by curator and scholar Alice Ensabella and an introduction by Stefano Roffi, director of the Magnani Rocca Foundation.

My Morandi

Lynne Tillman

Elizabeth Schambelan

By Lynne Tillman. Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan

From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, 

 is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, singular reflections on art and culture.

 gathers nearly seventy of the best and varied examples of Lynne Tillman’s writings in reference to art and culture published over the course of forty years. In essays that operate outside typical categories or genres, Tillman reflects on forms including film, painting, photography, poetry, and fiction, as well as notions of fame, originality, embodied viewing and thinking, collective activity, aging, illness, American identity, cultural politics, modernity, strangeness, and time.

Collected mainly from museum and gallery catalogues, artists’ books and monographs, her column in 

, these meditations on artists and writers, in the broadest sense of these labels, collide as a portrait of our cultural moment. Tillman’s inventive use of language and lateral thought, her ability to evoke conditions of the larger world in often just two thousand words on a specific artwork or individual, make her one of the most significant critics of our time. In a piece on the artist Robert Gober, she notes, “In writing on art, words reach for other words, phrases, idioms, and through them more images and ideas leap out.”

In her introduction, Elizabeth Schambelan notes that a hallmark of Tillman’s writing alongside artists is an “elegant rendering of complexity,” and in approaching Tillman’s body of work and thought, Schambelan herself deftly layers the art, voice, and language of criticism. With cover art by Paul Chan, this collection is for ludic and serious readers alike.

Lynne Tillman: Paying Attention

ekphrasis

 series, updated to included the recently published 

, is available now as a bundle of our 31 in-print titles. The 

 series is dedicated to publishing rare, out-of-print, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. It is part of David Zwirner Books’s ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.

The ekphrasis Collection (31 books)

Discover the incandescent work of American abstract artist Joan Mitchell with this book bundle, featuring in-depth explorations of her bold paintings and lyrical compositions.

 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

Portraits. Luc Tuymans

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