“Let’s imagine museums where nothing is stolen,” urges Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution. Check out Cassie Packard’s brilliant interview with him, covering his recent book, restitution, and how we can subvert colonial tools.

This week, dive into the layered personas of Fernando Pessoa and a re-reading of Keith Haring’s work and relationships.

Also, a new book profiles 50 BIPOC art world figures you should know.

Happy reading.

In Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire, Ricardo Montez complicates our understanding of collaboration, refusing clean conclusions about Haring’s work and relationships. Dive into Danilo Machado’s review.

We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World aims to be a new kind of art book, one that isn’t just for the elite.

Author Jasmin Hernandez highlights 50 art world figures, from artists to curators to museum educators. With photography by Sunny Leerasanthanah and Jasmine Durhal, the book offers readers a peek into the lives andcreative minds of its subjects.