Artists and books (from top to bottom):
Ed Ruscha, Oklahoma Tough, by Ron Padgett
Wangechi Mutu, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Joan Jonas, Why Look at Animals, by John Berger
Jacolby Satterwhite, Mature Themes, by Andrew Durbin
Kader Attia, African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude, by Souleymane Bachir Diagne