A detail from a painting by Lorenzo Lotto, titled Venus and Cupid, dated c. 1525.

Excerpts from David Zwirner Books

“Live for a while in these books.’’

May 9, 2020

Read Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, a collection of eight intimate letters written to a teenage Balthus between 1920 and 1926.

Read Jarrett Earnest's interviews with Holland Cotter, Darby English, and Siri Hustvedt, published in What It Means to Write About Art, Interviews with Art Critics.

Read Zoé Whitley's Preface to Light Break, a catalogue of photographs by Roy DeCarava, and watch a video introducing the artist's life and work.

Read excerpts from Donald Judd Writings, the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s writings assembled to date.

Read an excerpt from Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa, published this year by Chronicle Books.

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Read excerpts from “Serene’’ and “Roma’’, chapters in the forthcoming book Two Cities by Cynthia Zarin , and listen to a podcast with the author.

Read Afterwards, by Robert Slifkin, an excerpt from Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me.

Read James Baldwin's introduction to the exhibition catalogue for Beauford Delaney: A Retrospective, held at Gallery Lambert in 1964.

Read Meaning Belongs to People by Emma Enderby, an essay in the publication accompanying Oscar Murillo's major exhibition at Haus der Kunst in 2017. Image: Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid, c. 1525 (detail). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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A detail from a painting by Canaletto, titled View of the Grand Canal looking toward the Punta della Dogana from Campo Sant’Ivo, dating from the 2nd third of the 18th Century.

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A still from a video by Diana Thater, titled Collage with Elephant, Tree and Sky, dated 2019.

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A detail from Marcel Dzama's coloring book, titled Coloring the Moon Pink, dated 2020.

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