New arts books that make for great gifts this holiday season
The Boston Globe · Murray Whyte ·
For the art lover on your list this holiday season, there’s almost nothing better — trust me — and they’re always the right size.
Great exhibitions are always, alas, temporary. But they often leave behind handsome catalogs that are often equally great. Here are a few that fit the bill. For the art lover on your list this holiday season, there’s almost nothing better — trust me — and they’re always the right size.
1. Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous (Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2026 )
A landmark exhibition deserves a spectacular catalog, and this volume, like the show it represents, delivers. The exhibition, open til late January at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, offers deep immersion in the works of Jackson Pollock his wife, Lee Krasner. She is less well-known, but the show puts her name first, with good reason. The couples’ paintings together tell a fraught story of creative and marital tension culminating in Pollock’s death in a drunken car accident in 1956. The book gives you all the images, and all the details in a dizzying collection of essays that explore their work and their lives every which way. It’s a narrative and aesthetic powderkeg bursting with one of the most important chapters in American cultural history.
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