On the occasion of the publication of PARIS LA 17—CHANGE AGENTS: An open-ended, regularly updated Reading List, expanding on the artists, works, and concepts raised in the print issue.
Marilyn Nance — Last Day in Lagos. Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. New York: CARA; Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2022.
Rosalind Nashashibi — 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence. By Daniel F. Herrmann. London: National Gallery, 2021.
Nathanaël — Absence Where As: (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). Brooklyn: Nightboat Books, 2009.
Farah Nayeri — Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age. New York: Astra House, 2022.
Alice Neel — Painted Truths. Edited by Jeremy Lewison and Barry Walker. Text by Lewison. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010.
— Alice Neel, Uptown. By Hilton Als. New York: David Zwirner; London: Victoria Miro, 2017.
— Freedom. Text by Helen Molesworth. New York: David Zwirner, 2019.
— People Come First. By Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.
— At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World. Texts by Hilton Als, Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2024.
Maggie Nelson — The Argonauts. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
— “Lanka Tattersall in Conversation with Maggie Nelson on Diane Arbus.” In Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018.
— On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
— Like Love: Essays and Conversations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2024.
Senga Nengudi — Senga Nengudi. Edited by Begum Yasar. Texts by Rizvana Bradley, Jessica Bell Brown, and Ellen Tani. New York: Dominique Lévy, 2016.
— Topologies. Edited by Matthias Mühling and Stephanie Weber. Texts by Malik Gaines, Kellie Jones, and Catherine Wood. Munich: Hirmer, 2020.
Molly Nesbit — Midnight: The Tempest Essays. New York: Inventory Press, 2017.
Shirin Neshat — I Will Greet the Sun Again. Edited by Ed Schad. Munich: Prestel, 2019.
Louise Nevelson — The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend. Edited by Brooke Kamin Rapaport. New York: The Jewish Museum; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
— Out of Order: The Collages of Louise Nevelson. Edited by Yuval Etgar. Texts by Pia Gottschaller, Gió Marconi, Maria Nevelson, and Etgar. Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2022.
— Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face. By Julia Bryan-Wilson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.
— The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Mid-Century. Edited by Shirley Reece-Hughes. Texts by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Mary Coffey, Jane Dini, Marin R. Sullivan, Karli Wurzelbacher, Tara Donovan, Elizabeth Finch, Ellen Graff, Maria Nevelson, and Jean Shin. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2023.
Diane Severin Nguyen — If Revolution is a Sickness. Edited by Myriam Ben Salah and Sohrab Mohebbi. Texts by Cat Zhang and Nathanaël. Chicago: Renaissance Society, 2022.
Tammy Nguyen —O. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.
Thao Nguyen Phan — Monsoon Melody. Texts by Zoë Gray, Sam I-Shan, Lila Matsumoto, Han Nefkens, Pamela Nguyen Corey, and Nguyen Phan. Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2020.
Mignon Nixon — Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Otobong Nkanga — To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again. Edited by Omar Kholeif. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: DelMonico / Prestel, 2018.
Linda Nochlin — Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader. Edited by Maura Reilly. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
— Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now. Edited by Aruna D’Souza. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022.
Lucia Nogueira — Drawings. London: Drawing Room, 2005.
Isabel Nolan — Some Surfaces on Which Patterns Occur. Paris: Onestar Press, 2013.
— Curling Up with Reality. Edited by Gerrie van Noord. London: Launchpad; Dublin: Kerlin Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2020.
Cady Noland — Cady Noland. Essay by Diedrich Diederichsen. Frankfurt: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2018.
Sigrid Nunez — Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. New York: Atlas, 2011.
Mary Obering — Mary Obering. Texts by Lynn Zelevansky and Matthew Levy. Los Angeles: Inventory Press, Kayne Griffin; New York: Bortolami Gallery, 2022.
Clara Obligado — All That Grows: Nature and Writing. Translated by Fiona Mackintosh. Edited by Gwen Davis-Barrios, Alexandra Grant, and Nicole Hervás Ibañez. Texts by Erica Durante and Hervás Ibañez. Interview by Durante. Los Angeles: X Artists’ Books, 2025.
Lorraine O’Grady — Writing in Space. Edited by Aruna D’Souza. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
— Both/And. Edited by Catherine Morris and Aruna D’Souza. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum; Dancing Foxes Press, 2020.
— Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language. By Stephanie Sparling Williams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
Toyin Ojih Odutola — A Countervailing Theory. Edited by Lotte Johnson. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2020.
— “Who Is to Be Master?” By Zadie Smith. The New Yorker, August 17, 2020.
Georgia O’Keeffe — Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: D.A.P.; Madrid: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2021.
— Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer. By Lisa Volpe. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.
— Abstraction Blue. Text by Samantha Friedman. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2022.
— To See Takes Time. Edited by Samantha Friedman. Texts by Laura Neufeld and Friedman. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2023.
— Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle. By Kathleen Pyne. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Okwui Okpokwasili — Interview by Jenn Joy. Bomb 137 (Fall 2016).
— “Okwui Okpokwasili.” By Jamillah James. In Witch Hunt. Edited by Connie Butler and Anne Ellegood. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2021.
Niamh O’Malley — Niamh O’Malley. Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, 2019.
— Gather. Dublin: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2022.
Lauren O’Neill-Butler — Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture. Interviews by O’Neill-Butler. New York, Karma Books, 2021.
Yoko Ono — Yes Yoko Ono. Edited by Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks. Texts by Bruce Altschuler, Kevin Concannon, Edward M. Gomez, Chrissie Iles, David A. Ross, Joan Rothfuss, Murray Sayle, Kristine Stiles, Reiko Tomii, Jann S. Wenner, Hendricks, and Munroe. New York: Japan Society; Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
— Interview by Elvis Mitchell. Interview, December 2013 / January 2014.
Catherine Opie — American Photographer. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2008.
— Empty and Full. Edited and with an interview by Helen Molesworth. Texts by Jill Medvedow and Anna Stothart. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2011.
— Inauguration. Texts by Eileen Myles and Deborah Willis. New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2011.
— Keeping an Eye on the World. Edited by Ana María Bresciani and Tone Hansen. Cologne: Walther König, 2018.
— Catherine Opie. Texts by Hilton Als, Douglas Fogle, Helen Molesworth, and Elizabeth A. T. Smith. Interview by Charlotte Cotton. London: Phaidon, 2021.
Meret Oppenheim — My Album. Edited by Lisa Wenger and Martina Corgnati. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2022.
Marie Orensanz — Obras, 1963–2007. By Laura Buccellato. Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2007.
Orlan — Carnal Art: Orlan’s Refacing. By C. Jill O’Bryan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Ulrike Ottinger and Tabea Blumenschein — Zusammenspiel. Edited by Ottinger. Texts by Carina Bukuts, Annelie Lütgens, Katharina Sykora, and Ottinger. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.
Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler — Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective. London: Herbert Press, 2019.
Silke Otto-Knapp — Present Time Exercise. Edited by Suzanne Cotter. Texts by Catherine Wood and Jan Verwoert. Cologne: Walther König, 2010.
— Bühnenbilder. Minneapolis: Midway Contemporary Art; Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2019.
— In the Waiting Room. Edited by Otto-Knapp and Solveig Øvstebø. Chicago: Renaissance Society, 2021.
Virginia Overton — Virginia Overton. Edited by Fabrice Stroun. Geneva: JRP Editions, 2016.
Laura Owens — Laura Owens. Edited by Scott Rothkopf. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
— Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh. Arles: Fondation Vincent van Gogh; Cologne: Walther König, 2022.
From top: Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing), 1983/2009, chromogenic photograph in 40 parts, edition of 8 + 1 AP, © Lorraine O’Grady and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York; “Pauline Oliveros,” in Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture, text and layout courtesy and © Lauren O’Neill-Butler and Karma Books.
