Publications

Created in collaboration with leading university presses and international publishers such as Hirmer Verlag and DelMonico Books, Grey Art Museum publications cultivate encounters with a range of disciplines, time periods, and global perspectives. With high-quality illustrations of artwork, documentary photographs, and archival material, our titles—such as the recent Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years (2025)—offer both visual and critical accounts of modern and contemporary art. 

Books such as Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 (2017) and Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 (2022) feature new research and original essays by leading scholars that expand the art historical canon and provide new perspectives on well-researched time periods and art movements. Monographs such as Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968 (2004) and Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera (2015) provide in-depth analysis and research on singular artists—many of whom have not received the attention they deserve.

The Grey has produced several publications on the museum's permanent collection. Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection (2019), and other volumes featuring works from the Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art, illuminate readers' understanding of art made outside the long-dominant North American–Western European axis.

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