Cooper Hewitt | On view

Two exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt close this month! Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves closes May 21, and Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair closes May 29. Peruse a selection of books accompanying the exhibitions, and visit the museum before they're gone.

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A rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism

Large book cover with an image of an antique map of a volcano with multicolored fields flowing towards the edges. Title in black sans serif font near bottom right

History of Information Graphics

Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America