| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Unpayable Debt (London, UK: Sternberg Press, 2022) | Denise Ferreira da Silva (Author) | Black Studies, Race, Critical theory, Speculative fiction, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Los Angeles: The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation, 2017) | Jamie Manne (Editor), Susan Aberth (Contributor), Jamin An (Contributor), Lilly Casillas (Contributor), Joseph Henry (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Unorthodox (New Haven, CT: New York, NY; Yale University Press; The Jewish Museum, 2015) | Jens Hoffman (Editor), Sigmund Freud (Author), Mark Edmundson (Author), Georges Didi-Huberman (Author), Lawrence Rinder (Author), Iwona Blazwick (Author), Joshua Decter (Author), Jack Wertheimer (Author), RoseLee Goldberg (Author), Leo Steinberg (Author), Claudia Gould (Author), Svetlana Boym (Author), Alan T. Levenson (Author), Maria Lind (Author), Suzanne Cotter (Author), Clementine Deliss (Author), Hou Hanru (Author), Tobias Ostrander (Author), Chus Martinez (Author), Adam Lerner (Author), Ruba Katrib (Author), Chelsea Haines (Author), Kelly Taxter (Author), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Author), Simon Castets (Author), Donald S Palmer (Author), Define Ayas (Author), Leon Leon de la Barra (Author) | 21st century, Exhibition catalog, Contemporary art, Judaism / Permanent Collection |
 | Unmarked: The Politics of Performance(London/New York: Routledge, 1996) | Peggy Phelan (Author) | Psychology, Performance, Critical theory, Feminism and Feminist theory / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Unknown Unknown (Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2008) | Agnieszka Kurant (Artist), Raimundas Malasauskas (Contributor), Jean-Charles Massera (Contributor), Jan Verwoert (Contributor), Neville Wakefield (Contributor) | Journalism, Conceptual art, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection |
 | Universal Beach(Berkeley, CA: In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2011) | Vivek Narayanan (Author) | India, Poetry, Geopolitics / Permanent Collection |
 | Uniform : order and disorder(Milano : Charta, c2000., 2000) | Francesco Bonami, Stefano Tonchi, Maria Luisa Frisa | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible(New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016) | Kelly Baum (Author), David Blayney Brown (Contributor), Susan Stewart (Contributor), Michael Gallagher (Contributor), Sheena Wagstaff (Author), David Bomford (Contributor), Carmen C. Bambach (Contributor), Nadine M. Orenstein (Contributor), Nico van Hout (Contributor), Asher Ethan Miller (Contributor), Thomas Beard (Contributor), Nicholas Cullinan (Contributor), Andrea Bayer (Author), Diana Widmaier Picasso (Contributor) | Historical survey, Art history / Permanent Collection |
 | Une brève histoire de la transmisogynie: Pour une lecture anti-impérialiste de la transféminité (Marseille: Shed Publishing, 2025) | Jules Gill-Peterson (Author), Mihena Alsharif (Translator), Nesma Merhoum (Translator) | LGBTQ, Translation, French language, Trans studies, Gender studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Une Bibliotèque idéale: une publication sur la théorie qui influence la pratique de l'art [An Ideal Library: A Publication on Theory That Influences Art Practice] (Dakar: Raw Material Company, 2012) | Koyo Kouoh (Editor), Nana Oforiatta Ayim (Editor) | Reference, Pedagogy, Archives, Art theory / Permanent Collection |
 | Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration (Mexico City, Mexico: Temblores Publicaciones, 2023) | Andrés Zafra (Editor), Miki Garcia (Curator), Heather Sealy Lineberry (Curator), Julio César Morales (Curator), Matthew Villar Miranda (Curator) | Exhibition catalog, Art history, Ethics, Incarceration / Permanent Collection |
 | Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention (Maxille, Ontario, Canada: Ad Astra Comix, 2017) | Tings Chak (Author) | Comic, Architecture, Immigration, Graphic novel, Borders and Border Studies, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Undertraining: On A Contemporary Dance(Dijon: Presses Du Reel, 2011) | Boris Charmatz (Author), Isabelle Launay (Author) | 21st century, Performance, Dance, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Undertow (Brooklyn, NY: Silent Face, 2018) | Pacifico Silano (Editor), Chris Berntsen (Contributor), Emily Colucci (Contributor), Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (Contributor), Gwen Shockey (Contributor), Jen Everett (Contributor), Leonard Suryajaya (Contributor), Res (Contributor), Sam Stoich (Contributor), Troy Michie (Contributor) | Photography, Periodical, Art magazine, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008) | Joni Maya Cherbo (Editor), Ruth Ann Stewart (Editor), Magaret Jane Wyszomirski (Editor) | Cultural policy / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Understanding molecular typography (Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019., 2019) | H. F. Henderson (Author), Woody Leslie (Introduction) | Artist’s book, Fiction, Typography / Permanent Collection |
 | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T Press, 1994 [1964]) | Marshall McLuhan (Author) | Television, Critical theory, Pop culture, Media studies / Permanent Collection, Jaime Davidovich Collection |
 | Understanding Brecht(NLB, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Undercastle(Northampton, MA: Magic Helicopter Press, 2013) | Feliz Lucia Molina (Author) | Poetry, Review, American poetry -- 20th century, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Under the glare of the moon: Aesthetics Lineages of Revolt (English) (London, UK; Bilna'es and The Mosaic Rooms, 2023) | Adam HajYahia (Author), Haitham Haddad (Designer) | Revolution, Protest, Palestine / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Under the glare of the moon: Aesthetics Lineages of Revolt (Arabic) (London, UK; Bilna'es and The Mosaic Rooms, 2023) | Adam HajYahia (Author), Haitham Haddad (Designer) | Revolution, Protest, Palestine / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) | Cathy Caruth (Author) | Philosophy, Psychology, Essay, Psychoanalysis, Literary studies / Permanent Collection |
| Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk: The Mystery of Life(A & W Publishers, Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Unbecoming Behavior(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) | Kate Colby (Author) | Review / Permanent Collection |
 | Unaccompanied (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2017) | Javier Zamora (Author) | American poetry -- 21st century, Borders and Border Studies, Latin American Poetry / Permanent Collection |
| Una Huella en el Teatro Venezolano(Publisher Unknown, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
Un scorpion dans l'épicerie (Montpellier: Postfirebooks, 2025) | Lydia Amarouche (Afterword), Nesrine Salem (Translator) | Chapbook, Artist writing, Francophone literature / Permanent Collection | |
 | Un ojo, dos ojos, tres ojos(Mexico City, MX: Casa Vecina, 2012) | Tania Ragasol (Editor), Jon Mikel Euba (Contributor), Irene Kopelman (Contributor), Yael Davids (Contributor), Moosje Goosen (Contributor), Mariana Castillo Deball (Contributor), Amalia Pica (Contributor), Jorge Satorre (Contributor), Ricardo Cuevas (Contributor), Leticia El Halli Obeid (Contributor), Leandro Tartaglia (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Spanish language, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Artist writing / Permanent Collection |
 | Un cuadrado un círculo y un triángulo(Mexico City: Ediciones El Naranjo, 2008., 2008) | Alejandro Magallanes (Author) | Picture book, Spanish language, Children's literature / Children's Library, CC Catálogo, #16: Formas (2017) |
 | Umberto Eco and Football (Cambridge, UK: Icon Books, 2001) | Peter Pericles Trifonas (Author) | Semiotics, Popular culture / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |