This updated guide is divided into sections on Art, Architecture and Landscape. Within the Art and Architecture sections are alphabetically arranged notes on general artistic techniques, materials, movements, and the names of artists whose works are represented in the exhibition and the museum buildings. A general index in the back goes from Abstract Expressionism to Zinc. Landscape includes notes on the grounds including descriptions of the flora and fauna. Playful cartoons by Awan liven up the dictionary arrangement and see also references of the text. Also interspersed among the pages are statements by owners and founders Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell P. Rales about their vision for the museum and how it is carried out in its arrangement and operation.

This new second edition contains information about the current exhibitions of the art of Faith Ringgold, Tacita Dean, Arthur Jafa, Kerry James Marshall, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shirin Neshat, Alan Saret, Lorna Simpson, Richard Tuttle, Jeff Wall, and definitions of the artistic terms calligraphy, formalism, underpainting, tableau as well as information about bees, monarch butterflies, the nitrogen cycle, black-eyed susan flowers, and the trees on the grounds of the museum. ( )