Yale University Press to Publish History of Studio Museum in Harlem on October 27

Key facts

• The Studio Museum in Harlem: A History will be published on October 27 and distributed by Yale University Press.
• The book is edited by Romi Crawford, a visual and critical studies professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• It includes insights from dozens of artists, curators, scholars, and community leaders on the 58-year-old institution.
• The book unearths archival material dating to the museum's opening in 1968.
• The museum reopened to the public last November with a new $160 million building on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
• The museum closed in 2018 for construction of a building designed by Adjaye Associates; David Adjaye stepped back from the project after denying sexual misconduct accusations in 2023.
• Thelma Golden, the museum's director and chief curator, wrote the foreword, stating the book rejects a singular point of view in favor of a collective one.
• Henry Louis Gates Jr., a literary critic, historian, and Studio Museum trustee, writes that the museum is the home of Black art for all people.