Culture Type (African American Art)

A blog focused on visual art from a Black perspective, Culture Type  explores the intersection of art, history, and culture. Read More at culturetype.com

An Alternative History of Photography
Shikeith: Notes Towards Becoming a Spill
What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life: The Fade Resistance Collection
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré World Unbound
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Wangechi Mutu
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
Chakaia Booker: The Observance
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
The Language of Beauty in African Art
Abdias Nascimento: A Panamefrican Artist
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice
Firelei Báez: To Breathe Full and Free
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
Mickalene Thomas
Henry Taylor: B Side
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure(c)
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass
Faith Ringgold: American People
Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-Au-Prince
Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
Promise, Witness, Remembrance
Richard Hunt
Nick Cave: Forothermore
In the Black Fantastic
Afro-Atlantic Histories
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic: Selections from the Wedge Collection
James Barnor: Accra / London: A Retrospective
African Artists: From 1882 to Now
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Umueze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
Mario Moore: The Work of Several Lifetimes
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
Elijah Pierce's America
Black Futures
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Noah Davis
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Samuel Fosso: Autoportrait
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Barkley L. Hendricks: Basketball
Adam Pendleton
Writing in Space, 1973-2019
Colored People Time
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops
Stanley Whitney
Liquor Store Theatre
Going There: Black Visual Satire
Terry Adkins: Resounding
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Seen: Edmonia Lewis
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Noah Davis
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Horace Pippin, American Modern
Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Liquor Store Theatre
Terry Adkins: Resounding
Transcendence: (American Landscape Painting, Painter Richard Mayhew Art Book)
Charles Gaines: Palm Trees and Other Works
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Liquor Store Theatre
Writing in Space, 1973-2019
Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer
Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs
Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires
Lorna Simpson Collages: (Art Books, Contemporary Art Books, Collage Art Books)
Ellen Gallagher & Edgar Cleijne: Liquid Intelligence
Kara Walker: Figa
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen
Senga Nengudi: Topologies
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016
Adrian Piper: A Reader
Adrian Piper
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects
Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities: The Photography Workshop Series
Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs
Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph
Gordon Parks: Muhammad Ali
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940-1950
Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits
Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Ektachrome Archive
Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up
Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth
Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters
Mark Bradford
Noah Davis
Barkley L. Hendricks: Basketball
Barkley L. Hendricks: Landscape Paintings
Barkley L. Hendricks: Works on Paper
More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989
Jack Whitten
Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
Jacob Lawrence in the City
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem
The Great Migration: An American Story
Harriet and the Promised Land
Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe
Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey