Ed Levine: The Embodied Experience of Art edited by Julie Reiss (Harpo Foundation and Marquand Books, 2026)

Each month we choose a book connected to an artist, a place, or the wider world of American art history. Some are biographies. Some are field guides. Some are the very books that sat on an artist’s own desk. All of them are worth your time, and all of them will send you deeper into the stories these extraordinary places have to tell.

This month, we’re featuring Ed Levine: The Embodied Experience of Art. This publication surveys artist and educator Ed Levine’s significant and lasting contributions to contemporary art as a critic, artist, educator and advocate starting in the 1960s. It is the first publication to document his most ambitious artwork, Vermont Village: A Conversation between Art, Water and the Land, a large-scale sculptural environment.