Press | Miko McGinty

Do Ho Suh: Portal is an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 winner: “an immersive, unforgettable experience with great support from the spare, methodical design.”
2023
Bookforum reviews Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul, which “reimagines the art book as something that feels improvisatory and free.”
David O’Neill
2023
Publisher’s Weekly reviews Transform: Promising Places, Second Chances, and the Architecture of Transformational Change, saying “architectural students and practitioners will find much to appreciate.”
2023
Firelei Báez: to breathe full and free and Richard Hunt are featured on Culture Type’s “18 Best Black Art Books of 2022.”
Victoria L. Valentine
2022
Maurice Sendak: Wild Things Are Happening is featured in the New York Times Book Review.
Lauren Christensen
2022
Artbook.com features Richard Hunt: “From this day forward, Richard Hunt is a book no serious art library can be without.”
Cory Reynolds
2022
Michael Fried, for Bookforum, reviews David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–1965: “I’m not sure I have ever seen a catalogue raisonné as beautiful, as magnificent, as the new publication on the oeuvre of the great American sculptor David Smith.”
Michael Fried
2022
The Art Libraries Society of North America awards the 2021 George Wittenborn book award for excellence in art publishing to Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories.
2022
Writing the Future: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation is awarded the Award of Excellence in the Art Book category of the 11th International Creative Media Awards.
2022
Yale Herald calls On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale “a massive work of collaboration by and for so many smart, insightful, creative women.”
Elizabeth Levie
2021
Wallpaper names Soul of a Nation: A Reader as one of their top 10 art books of 2021.
Harriet Lloyd-Smith
2021
Vanity Fair features Locating Sol Lewitt in “14 of This Spring’s Best Art Books,” saying it “drops us into the deep end of his broad art practice and goes far beyond his widely recognized wall drawings.”
Allison Schaller
2021
Interview Magazine describes Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire as having “an air of affection that seeps through the pages.”
Mitchell Nugent
2020
Vulture reviews Young, Gifted and Black: “Young, Gifted and Black surveys the next generation of Black artists, but with an eye toward the generation just before.”
Trupti Rami
2020
The Chicago Reader praises The Obama Portraits and writes that “We’re never supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I just bought a book for its jacket. I’m a lifelong bibliophile who should know better, but it might be the most beautiful jacket I’ve ever seen.”
Deanna Isaacs
2020
Bookforum reviews Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà, the catalogue for the Venice Biennale United States pavillion, stating that it “smoothly [transcends] the current political context to tap into something more universal.”
2019
The Spectator lists Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies as one of the best books of 2019, writing that “The book’s cover shows an impulse-watering sprinkler in urgent action. It is better than David Hockney’s bravura bigger splash—a justly famous capture of the impossibly evanescent.”
Craig Raine
2019
The New Yorker calls the collected works in Modigliani Unmasked a “revelation.”
2017
Atlantic Highland describes Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography as “a sumptuous 400-page catalogue by Anne McCauley.”
Allan Dean
2017
Woman’s Art Journal describes Yayoi Kusama: Infinty Mirrors as “the chance for sustained engagement… [featuring] a wealth of illustrations, three scholarly articles, an interview, a timeline, and an annotated bibliography.”
Mika Yoshitake
2017
The Guardian calls Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World “brilliant” and praises “a reading experience that feels positively tactile.”
Kathyrn Hughes
2017
In the New York Review of Books article “Cool, Sublime, Idealistic Diebenkorn,” Jed Perl discusses the Miko McGinty designed catalogue Matisse/Diebenkorn along with 2 other recent Diebenkorn publications in the January 19, 2017 issue.
Jed Perl
2017
Harper’s Magazine praises Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? for its comprehensive retrospective on Drexler's works.
Christine Smallwood
2016
The Daily Beast names Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings one of the Best Fine Art Books of 2015.
Robert Birnbaum
2015
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty is lauded in the New York Times Art Issue and called “seductive and glittery, an object of desire.”
Parul Sehgal
2015
Holly Bass praises the texts of contributors Robert G. O’Meally, Robert Farris Thompson, and curator Franklin Sirmans in her New York Times Sunday Book Review article on Basquiat and the Bayou.
Holly Bass
2015
Miko McGinty writes about the influence of her long-standing friendship and collaboration with Yale Center for British Art curator Elisabeth Fairman on the designing Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower in the YUP @RTbooks series, “From the Designer’s Desk.”
Miko McGinty
2014
David Pullins reviews History of Design in caa.reviews and describes it as an "ambitious and far-reaching" educational tool in the Decorative Arts field.
David Pullins
2014
Senior Designer Rita Jules discusses her experience designing The History of Design as an alumnus of Bard Graduate Center in YUP @RTbooks series, “From the Designer’s Desk.”
Rita Jules
2014
A review of Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, the Whitney Museum of Art’s show and catalog, for Art in America.
Matthew Nichols
2013
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 was named one of 10 Best Art Books of 2013 by Hyperallergic. The magazine said that “World War II, the Cold War, vandalism, and terrorism loom large in this attractive volume, but what makes the book notable is that the authors obviously look for poetry as much as they do power in their artistic selections.”
Hrag Vartanian
2013
Gutai: Splendid Playground is the winner of Design Observer’s “50 Books 50 Covers” Award for 2013
2013
In “The Seriousness of Fun in Postwar Japan,” the New York Times reviews Gutai: Splendid Playground.
Roberta Smith
2013
Art in America reviews Gutai: Splendid Playground, mentioning that “the catalogue enters [Gutai's works] permanently into Western history, a monumental service.”
Janet Koplos
2013
A New York Times review of Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens.
Souren Melikian
2012
A New York Times Sunday Book Review of The Innocence of Objects, calls it “a manifesto for the power of demotic objects to tell grand narratives, partly Pamuk’s love affair with the particularity of one moment in his city.”
Edmund de Waal
2012
A review of the survey show and catalog Donald Moffett: The Extravagent Vein at CAMH.
David Velasco
2011
The New York Times discusses exhibition and catalog Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art saying, “the admirably lucid catalog essays the exhibition’s curators raise intriguing questions about what the buncheong style meant to its creators and consumers.”
Ken Johnson
2011
Miko McGinty books Paul Thek Diver and Glenn Ligon: America tied for the Independent Voice Award in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
2011