Books written by Hilton Als

Alice Neel: Uptown

In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time.
The Best American Essays 2018

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads ...
White Girls

"This book will change you.
The Best American Essays 2018

The award-winning critic and essayist Hilton Als picks the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.
The Women

It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects: his mother, a self-described "Negress," who would not be defined by the limitations of race ...
Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists of her generation, devoted to the beauty of image-making, innovatively juxtaposing the figure and gesture with text and narrative. This rich monograph,...
Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a ...
Christopher Knowles: In a Word

Containing an autobiographical text by the artist himself, new texts by Elms and curator Lauren Digiulio and a personal reflection by Als, this is an essential resource on an under-recognized artist.
Desdemona for Celia by Hilton

"'Desdemona for Celia by Hilton' is a multifaceted collaboration between artist Celia Paul and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Hilton Als. A concise selection of drawings and paintings by Paul are illustrated.
White Girls

'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan 'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer 'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black ...
Catherine Opie

For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America.
Glenn Ligon Stranger

Glenn Ligon Stranger
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
Andrew Lamar Hopkins: Créolité

Andrew Lamar Hopkins: Créolité
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World

This collection of paintings includes rarely seen works of individuals including Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and Adrienne Rich, as well as the bohemian theorists, Greenwich Village activists, artists, and politicians who populated these ...
700 Nimes Road

The images in this moving collection were culled from photos Opie took over the course of six months, both on the grounds of and inside Taylor’s home.
Catherine Opie (Signed Edition)

With more than 300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this artist's work to date.
Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands

But, as this extensive volume makes clear, he is also a sophisticated visual thinker, endlessly preoccupied with the process and history of painting.
The Women

It presents a series of portraits that analyzes the role that sexual and racial identity play in the lives and work of a series of subjects chosen by the author. Among these subjects are his own mother and the mother of Malcolm X.