Happy park-reading (or porch-reading) season to those who celebrate! Whether you’re grabbing a book for you flight to the Venice Biennale or to bask on a picnic blanket in the glorious sun elsewhere in the world, we’ve got the latest and greatest art books for you below. That Figures: Selected Writings by Dena Yago Edited by Antonia Carrara with a Forward by McKenzie Wark Across writing, painting, and her “trend forecasting” collective K-HOLE, Yago has become a go-to armchair theorist of those aesthetic sensibilities so banal and pernicious—so normal and boring—that they could easily go unnoticed. But once someone—often, Yago and her ilk—puts language to the phenomenon—whether its the aesthetics of irony, cringe, or “normcore,” the now ubiquitous term K-HOLE coined—you start to see it everywhere. In her paintings, she trains an artist’s keen eye on the visual culture of late capitalism. The result is an update on the Pop art approach meant to evade the cynicism and complicity now synonymous with Andy Warhol.…