- Soul of a nation, art in the age of Black power, edited by Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley ; with contributions by Susan E. Cahan, David C. Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Linda Goode Bryant, Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis
- Hollywood costume, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- Lorna Simpson, Joan Simon ; with contributions by Naomi Beckwith, Marta Gili, Thomas J. Lax, Elvan Zabunyan
- The snowy day and the art of Ezra Jack Keats, Claudia J. Nahson ; with an essay by Maurice Berger
- Gold, edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Thomas Zaunschirm ; [translation: Josephine Cordero Sapien [and others]]
- Royal manuscripts, the genius of illumination, Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle ; with Joanna Frońska and Deirdre Jackson
- Rooted, revived, reinvented, basketry in America, Kristin Schwain, Josephine Stealey
- The golden century of Venetian painting, Terisio Pignatti ; catalog in collaboration with Kenneth Donahue
- Arcimboldo, 1526-1593, edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
- Cindy Sherman, Eva Respini ; with contributions by Johanna Burton and John Waters ; [edited by Kate Norment]
- Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien ; with contributions by Sarah Greenough, Susan Kismaric, Erin O'Toole, Tod Papageorge, and Sandra S. Phillips
- N.C. Wyeth, new perspectives, Jessica May and Christine B. Podmaniczky ; with contributions by D.B. Dowd, David M. Lubin, Kristine K. Ronan, and Karen Zukowski
- Henry Taylor, the only portrait I ever painted of my momma was stolen, with contributions by Zadie Smith, Sarah Lewis, Charles Gaines, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
- Modigliani and his models, [exhibition curators, Simonetta Fraquelli, Norman Rosenthal]
- Caliphs and kings, the art and influence of Islamic Spain, Heather Ecker
- George Bellows, American artist, Joyce Carol Oates
- The beautiful walls, photographic elevations of street art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris, photography by Larry Yust ; text by Patrick A. Polk
- Cubism, the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, edited by Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow
- A wild note of longing, Albert Pinkham Ryder and a century of American art, Christina Connett Brophy, Elizabeth Broun, William C. Agee ; [preface and acknowledgments, Christina Connett Brophy]
- Edward Hopper's Maine, Kevin Salatino ; with essays by Carter E. Foster [and others]
- Down north, North Atlantic Triennial = Norđur og niđur : Santiʹmalist á norđurslóđum = Ner till norr : Samtida konst i Arktis, curators, Jaime DeSimone, Markús Þór Andrésson, Anders Jansson
- Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers, Ronald Pickvance
- Lenore Tawney, mirror of the universe
- Painting summer in New England, Trevor Fairbrother ; with a foreword by Dan L. Monroe
- L'enfant dans les arbres, Francine Ruel ; d'après l'oeuvre de Marc-Aurèle Fortin
- Pierre et Gilles, [double je, 1976-2007], [introduction, Jeff Koons ; text, Paul Ardenne ; English translation, Charles Penwarden ; German translation, Stefan Barmann ; French translation of the text by Jeff Koons]
- Upside down, Arctic realities, [organized by the Menil Collection with Sean Mooney ; curated by Edmund Carpenter]
- Nam June Paik, becoming robot, edited by Melissa Chiu and Michelle Yun
- Searching for Shakespeare, Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells
- John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age, Annelise K. Madsen ; with contributions by Richard Ormond and Mary Broadway
- Smithsonian American women, remarkable objects and stories of strength, ingenuity, and vision from the National Collection, foreword by Jill Lepore ; introduction by Michelle Delaney ; edited by Victoria Pope and Christine Schrum ; Smithsonian Editorial Committee: Nancy Bercaw, Michelle Delaney, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Matthew Shindell, and Margaret Weitekamp
- The age of Caravaggio
- Art purposes, object lessons for the liberal arts, edited by Joachim Homann
- Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Malcolm Daniel
- For a love of his people, the photography of Horace Poolaw, Nancy Marie Mithlo, general editor
- Kara Walker, Figa, [edited by Karen Marta ; photography, Ari Marcopoulos ; preface by Dakis Joannou ; introduction and text by Kara Walker]
- Degas and the nude, George T.M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey ; with contributions by Lucian Freud with Martin Gayford, Anne Roquebert
- Virgil Abloh, "figures of speech", edited by Michael Darling
- Ben Shahn's New York, the photography of modern times, Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, Jenna Webster ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
- Alice Neel, people come first, Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey ; with contributions by Meredith A. Brown, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Susanna V. Temkin
- Seeing Gertrude Stein, five stories, Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer
- The extended moment, fifty years of collecting photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, [essays by] Ann Thomas, John McElhone
- Small wonders, late-Gothic boxwood micro-carvings from the low countries, edited by Frits Scholten ; with contributions by Frits Scholten, Reindert Falkenburg, Ingmar Reesing, Alexandra Suda, Barbara Drake Boehm, Pete Dandridge, Lisa Ellis
- The Age of Napoleon, costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815, essays by Charles Otto Zieseniss [and others] ; Katell le Bourhis, general editor
- Subversion and surrealism in the art of Honoré Sharrer, edited by M. Melissa Wolfe ; essays by Sarah Burns, Robert Cozzolino, Michael Lobel, M. Melissa Wolfe, Adam Desmond Zagorin
- A new American sculpture, 1914-1945, Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, edited by Andrew J. Eschelbacher ; essays by Andrew J. Eschelbacher, Michaela R. Haffner, Ronald Harvey, Shirley Reece-Hughes, Roberta K. Tarbell
- The golden age of maritime maps, when Europe discovered the world, under the direction of Catherine Hofmann, Hélène Richard, Emmanuelle Vagnon
- Ai Weiwei, exhibition curators, Tim Marlow, artistic director ; Adrian Locke
- Dora Maar, edited by Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska ; with contributions by Dawn Ades, Alix Agret, Patrice Allain, Victoria Combalía, Emma Lewis, Laurence Perrigault, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ian Walker
- Hearts of our people, Native women artists, Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Teri Greeves ; editor, Laura Silver ; foreword by Kaywin Feldman