BlackBook, the legacy arts and culture brand, announces the release of Mother Nature in the Bardo, a landmark art book published in collaboration with UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. The volume follows BlackBook’s spring 2025 Chelsea exhibition and.the launch of its new Hamptons gallery this summer.

The book features forewords by Klaus Biesenbach (Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berggruen Museum, and Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, as well as The Berlin Modern), and Lucia Pietroiusti (Head of Ecologies, Serpentine, London), alongside essays by Re:wild’s Wes Sechrest, Ph.D., physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and Manos Antoninis, Director of the UNESCO GEM Report, among others.

Mother Nature in the Bardo explores the profound intersections of art, culture, nature, and spirituality, tracing how artists across centuries have responded to shifting cultural and environmental paradigms. Beginning with the Impressionists’ reaction to the Industrial Revolution and painting en plein air, the book follows the trajectory through Modernism to the present day, considering how each generation of artists has reflected on—and reshaped—their relationship with the natural world.

Featured artists include: Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Marc Chagall, Damien Hirst, Julie Mehretu, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Marina Abramović, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Judy Chicago, Nicholas Galanin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Petra Cortright, , Joan Mitchell, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly, Vincent van Gogh, Kay WalkingStick, Salvador Dalí, Doug Aitken, Lita Albuquerque, Lucas Arruda, Daniel Arsham, César Baldaccini, Hernan Bas, David Buckland, Julian Charrière, Vija Celmins, Sebnem Coskun, Guerra de la Paz, Tacita Dean, Agnes Denes, Tara Donovan, Alejandro Durán, Torkwase Dyson, Walter De Maria, Camilla Engström, Olafur Eliasson, Lucian Freud, April Gornik, Andy Goldsworthy, Cai Guo-Qiang, Andreas Gursky, Jay Heikes, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alexandre Hogue, Edward Hopper, Jammie Holmes, Nancy Holt, Jenny Holzer, Hudson River School, Pierre Huyghe, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Friedrich Kunath, Maya Lin, Richard Long, Nate Lowman, Mary Mattingly, Sally Mann, Hugo McCloud, Ryan McGinley, Steve McQueen, Haley Mellin, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Wangechi Mutu, Vik Muniz, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Georgia O’Keeffe, Precious Okoyomon, Ebony G. Patterson, Nicolas Party, Hilary Pecis, Raymond Pettibon, Jackson Pollock, Pipilotti Rist, Gerhard Richter, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, John Sabraw, Tomás Saraceno, Julian Schnabel, HA Schult, Richard Serra, Raqib Shaw, Paul Signac, Rose B. Simpson, Robert Smithson, Diana Thater, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Wu Tsang, Emma Webster, Meg Webster, Anna Weyant, and Jonas Wood.

The book is sustainably produced, distributed globally through ACC at Barnes and Nobles and other retail stores, Amazon.com, online platforms, and at BlackBookPresents.com.

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