Excerpts from David Zwirner Books

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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.

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.