Johanna Fateman and Blakey Bessire share their picks for the best art books of the year. Fateman highlights a new edition of Claude Cahun's anti-memoir "Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals" from Siglio Press, featuring photomontages by Cahun and Marcel Moore, and the first monograph on Greer Lankton, "Could It Be Love," edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, and Nan Goldin with an essay by Hilton Als. Bessire selects "Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena," a catalog from the Drawing Center exhibition exploring UFOs and altered states, and "Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal," a Hammer Museum catalog edited by Erin Christovale that examines Coltrane's sonic and spiritual work.
This article matters because it curates notable art publications that expand access to underrepresented or avant-garde artists, such as Claude Cahun's queer modernist photography and Greer Lankton's trans-themed doll works. It also highlights how exhibition catalogs like "Voice of Space" and "Monument Eternal" serve as standalone art objects that deepen public engagement with paranormal and spiritual themes in contemporary art.