Menil Bookstore

Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, curated by Walter Hopps in 1963, was a singular moment in 20th-century art history. The Menil Collection's publication "Duchamp in California" chronicles the show's conception and ex*****on, revealing an ascendant cultural history of Los Angeles in the early 1960s.

Explore the volume, which reproduces every art object in the show, and see why the exhibition was revered as an exemplar of curatorial practice.

Surveying political art in the 1920s and 30s, "Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented" examines how artists invented new visual languages in that era's shifts in industry, technology, and labor. The richly illustrated book was published on conjunction with a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition featuring works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection.

Stop by the Menil Bookstore to purchase a copy.

See what's new at the Menil Bookstore, including an array of friendly faces and ceramics by Jill Whitten. The shop is open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

A key contributor to the Surrealism, Informal Art, and Art Brut movements, Croatian artist Slavko Kopač used painting, sculpture, and other media to blend reality and fantasy. Through his career, spanning Zagreb to Paris to Florence, Kopač collaborated with Jean Dubuffet, André Breton, and Yves Tanguy, among others.

Explore the interconnected nature of the mid-20th-century art world through artistic dialogues, previously unpublished works, and archive documents in the volume "Slavko Kopač. Hidden Treasure. Informal Art, Surrealism, Art Brut," available at the Menil Bookstore.