National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Announces New Publication, Art &

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center), the National Gallery’s world-renowned research institute, recently announced Art &, its new book series aimed at understanding the role of art and artists in imagining a dynamic social fabric. The first volume, Art & Histories, was published on January 13, 2026. The second volume, Art & Water, will be published on July 7, 2026. Future volumes will be published annually in the summer.

Each edition of Art & will invite artists and scholars to explore a central topic—histories, water, dreaming, and more—and how artistic practices, both past and present, shape society’s relationships to these issues. Academic exploration of the topics will be accompanied by an original, commissioned work of art created specifically for the book and in response to its theme.

“As a series, Art & is an invitation to think about art together with the issues it shapes through material and imaginative expressions,” said Kaira M. Cabañas, the Center’s associate dean for academic programs and publications. “The ampersand in the title is intentional both typographically and conceptually. By foregrounding ‘&’ in the title, the series signals how art does not stand alone but is always already entangled with people, ideas, materials, networks, and communities, aligning with the National Gallery’s mission to welcome all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.”

Art & Histories features essays by Seeta Chaganti, Lisa Gail Collins, Lorraine Mendes and Igor Simões, Wanda Nanibush (Anishinaabe, Citizen of the Beausoleil Nation), Juno Richards, and Erhan Tamur, with an original work of art by Glexis Novoa.

Art & advances the Center’s contributions to the scholarly community by including the perspectives of authors of varying generations and at different points in their careers, as well as from different parts of the country and the world, encouraging and introducing the future of art-historical scholarship in a widely available context.

Each volume will be published simultaneously in print and open-access digital editions. Art & will be published by the National Gallery of Art and distributed by Yale University Press.

Purchase your copy of Art & Histories today: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300290387/art-and-histories/