In No Particular Order: Selected Must Reads

Salamishah Tillet, Crirtic at Large, New York Times, 2025

Soraya Nadia McDonald, Senior Culture Critic, ANDSCAPE, andscape.com, 2025

Bice Curiger, Editor. Parkett :Zine Publication Focused on Contemporary Artmaking around the World, 1984 - 2017

Gordy Grundy, Blood and Paint: Essays on Art in Los Angeles, 2016

Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner, Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail, 2017

Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, b.1942 - d. 2020

Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist, 2020

Douglas Eklund, Ian Alteveer, Jonathan Lethem, Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, 2018

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, 1993

Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, 1982

Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonder, 1995

Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. 1997

Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty. 1993

Rem Koolhaas, Delerious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhatten. 1978

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space. 1957

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, 1966

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, 1968

Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant Garde and other Modernist Myths, 1985

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972

Brian Wallis, Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, 1987