The New York Times | Big and Beautiful: Gift-Worthy Holiday Art Books

December 11, 2025

BY LEAH GREENBLATT

 
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley

A cast-bronze love seat upholstered in tufts of reindeer fur; glass-beaded creatures of impossible provenance; purple porcelain mushrooms: This is the world of the twin multimedia artists Nikolai and Simon Haas, captured here in vibrant, tactile images — even the padded hot-pink cover feels squeezable. (Monacelli, $79.95.)

 

This is the cover of “Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley”