- Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Richard Marshall ; with essays by Dick Hebdige [and others]
- African American art, Harlem Renaissance, civil rights era, and beyond, Richard J. Powell and Virginia M. Mecklenburg ; with contributions by Maricia Battle
- Olmec, colossal masterworks of ancient Mexico, edited by Kathleen Berrin and Virginia M. Fields
- Joseph Cornell and surrealism, edited by Matthew Affron and Sylvie Ramond
- The art of assemblage
- The ceramic presence in modern art, selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, Sequoia Miller ; with an essay by John Stuart Gordon
- "Great and mighty things", outsider art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, edited by Ann Percy ; with Cara Zimmerman ; contributions by Francesco Clemente, Lynne Cooke, Joanne Cubbs, Bernard L. Herman, Ann Percy, Colin Rhodes, and Cara Zimmerman
- George Bellows, Charles Brock, Sean Wilentz, Marianne Doezema, David Peters Corbett, Sarah Newman, Carol Troyen, David Park Curry, Sarah Cash, Melissa Wolfe, Robert Conway, Mark Cole, Glenn C. Peck
- Vik Muniz, seeing is believing, [essays by Charles Ashley Stainback and Mark Alice Durant]
- Exposed, voyeurism, surveillance, and the camera since 1870, edited by Sandra S. Phillips ; essays by Simon Baker [and others]
- Recasting the past, collecting and presenting antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, Karen Manchester ; with an essay by Karen B. Alexander
- Scandinavian modern design, 1880-1980, Cooper-Hewitt Museum ; David Revere McFadden, general editor
- Fra Angelico to Leonardo, Italian Renaissance drawings, Hugo Chapman and Marzia Faietti
- A century of African American art, the Paul R. Jones collection, edited by Amalia K. Amaki
- Delacroix and the rise of modern art, Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle
- Surreal things, Surrealism and design, edited by Ghislaine Wood
- The visual blues, edited by Natalie A. Mault ; essays by R.A. Lawson, John Lowe, Natalie A. Mault, Margaret Rose Vendryes ; with artist biographies by Lauren Barnett and Natalie A. Mault
- Faking it, manipulated photography before Photoshop, Mia Fineman
- Art and appetite, American painting, culture, and cuisine, edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Annelise K. Madsen, Sarah Kelly Oehler, and Ellen E. Roberts
- Ai Weiwei, exhibition curators, Tim Marlow, artistic director, Adrian Locke
- Paul Klee, the nature of creation, works 1914-1940, Robert Kudielka with an essay by Bridget Riley
- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection & 20th century Mexican art from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection, NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderadale ; Helga Prignitz-Poda ; translations, Isabel Geddes and Alan G. Paddle
- Color rush, American color photography from Stieglitz to Sherman, Katherine A. Bussard & Lisa Hostetler with contributions by Alissa Schapiro, Grace Deveney, & Michal Raz-Russo
- Gustav Klimt, the Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky collections, edited by Renée Price ; with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder [and others]
- This will have been, art, love & politics in the 1980s, Helen Molesworth ; [essays by Johanna Burton [and others] ; contributions by Claire Grace [and others]]
- German Expressionism, the graphic impulse, Starr Figura ; with an essay by Peter Jelavich
- Bill Traylor, 1854-1949, deep blues, edited by Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer, with contributions by John Berger [and others]
- Shaker design, June Sprigg
- I, Claudia, women in ancient Rome, Diana E.E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson, editors
- Heartland, the photographs of Terry Evans, [Terry Evans] ; Keith F. Davis, Jane L. Aspinwall, April M. Watson ; with contributions by Kaitlyn Bunch and Terry Evans ; director's foreword by Julián Zugazagoitia
- Peter Blume, nature and metamorphosis, edited by Robert Cozzolino ; with contributions by Samantha Baskind, Sergio Cortesini, Robert Cowley, David McCarthy, Sarah Vure
- Circa 1492, art in the age of exploration, edited by Jay A. Levenson
- Heroic Africans, legendary leaders, iconic sculptures, Alisa LaGamma
- Jackson Pollock, "psychoanalytic" drawings, Claude Cernuschi ; foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta
- Edward Hopper and the American imagination, Deborah Lyons and Adam D. Weinberg ; Julie Grau, editor ; with contributions by Paul Auster [and 13 others]
- Puja and piety, Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist art from the Indian subcontinent, edited by Pratapaditya Pal ; with essays by Pratapaditya Pal, Stephen P. Huyler, John E. Cort, Christian Luczanits ; contributions by Debashish Banerji
- Travels in the labyrinth, Mexican art in the Pollak collection, [Dilys Pegler Winegrad, editor]
- The itinerant languages of photography, Eduardo Cadava, Gabriela Nouzeilles ; with contributions by Joan Fontcuberta, Valeria González, Thomas Keenan, Mauricio Lissovsky, John Mraz
- Mark Bradford, Christopher Bedford
- Contemporary American realist drawings, the Jalane and Richard Davidson collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernández-Durán and Mark Pascale
- Maps and the 20th century, drawing the line, edited by Tom Harper
- Monet and the birth of impressionism, Felix Krämer, editor
- O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes, the artist's collection, Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman
- Damage control, art and destruction since 1950, Kerry Brougher, Russell Ferguson, Dario Gamboni
- Claude Monet, text by William C. Seitz ; [Irene Gordon, editor]
- Come as you are, art of the 1990s, Alexandra Schwartz
- America after the fall, painting in the 1930s, edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler
- Connecticut needlework, women, art, and family, 1740-1840, Susan P. Schoelwer
- Max Beckmann, edited by Sean Rainbird
- Monet in the '90s, the series paintings, Paul Hayes Tucker