On the occasion of the inauguration of the Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed a range of architects and artists associated with the venue. His interview
A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed "Arcana" series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interview
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Edited and with an Afterword by Floyd Cheung. Originally published in 1937, AND CHINA HAS HANDS, the final published novel of literary gadfly and political rad
Jess T. Dugan has created intimate portraits that engage with issues of identity, sexuality, gender, and community.Every Breath We Drew works within the framework of queer experience and actively cons
Wild and Precious documents the road trips that American photographer Jesse Burke takes with his daughter to explore the natural world. Burke's landscapes and portraits investigate the complex relatio
Dread and Dreams brings together photographs Zalmai made between 2008 and 2013 against the backdrop of the fourteen-year US-led invasion of Afghanistan that culminated with the withdrawal of American
After four years of collaboration with Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet, Henry Leutwyler was granted unprecedented backstage access to the Company during the winter of 2012. The resulting bo
To coincide with the opening of the exclusive Club Matador in Madrid, Matador magazine devotes an extra issue to the world of private clubs and their secret worlds available only to members. Featuring
The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. The theme for Aperture's Fall 2014 issue is "Fashion," produced in collaboration with the groundbreaking fashion-photography duo Inez & Vinoodh. The issue explor
This is the first book from the Croatian-born, Amsterdam-based artist. Maljkovic produces both monochrome paintings and installations that show the influence of the Futurists and a fascination with wh
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's "A Brief History of Curating," this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950
Part six of the "Design and Politics" series compares the Dutch Randstad region with Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Detroit, speculating on the much esteemed region as an alternative model or vision for the
Focusing on Los Angeles and Philadelphia, "First Among Equals" considers the various modes that contemporary artists have developed to work with each other and reach across generations through negotia
With her classically formal clay and bronze sculptures, London-based Rebecca Warren positions herself within the predominantly male figurative tradition, which includes Degas and Rodin, while maintain
Paulina Olowska's paintings, collages, and knitted works explore Communist Poland's fascination with Western consumerism and celebrates the spirit of what Polish writer Leopold Tyrmand called the "App
Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Schutte (born 1954) first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. In the 1990s, he produced ceramic figures
Outlining planes and volumes in space with the humblest of materials, American artist Fred Sandback's (1943-2003) work makes ingenious use of the Minimalist artistic vocabulary. Though Sandback employ
Photographer Roman Burda (born 1966) is known for his exploration of African landscapes, especially in Ethiopia. His genuine and intimate relationships with the locals of the Omo River region have all
"Unsitely Aesthetics" seeks to address the unconventional ways in which contemporary art is made and engaged with across the vastly expanded networks of new media culture, arguing--counterintuitively-
"Lugares de Transito" is the culmination of the epic journey of 16 photographers in Latino cities in both the US and Latin America. In each city, a pair of photographers works with an exhibition curat
After cofounding "Fantom" in 2009 in Milan and New York in 2009, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz is continuing the endeavor by launching her magazine with the new name of "Osmos." Nourishing contemporary perspe
This volume documents an installation by Cildo Meireles and Antoni Muntadas at the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp. For this occasion, the artists divided the space with a transparent partition; on one side
German painter Frank Rodel (born 1954) has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own
In After Hiroshima, American artist elin o’Hara slavick attempts to address the aftermath of the 1945 bombing--historically, poetically and visually. This act of ethical seeing brings to us with harro
This colorful volume examines the use of rapid prototyping and manufacturing technologies in the development of new, cutting-edge architectural processes. Beginning with a discussion of the theory beh
With the support of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Architecture Fund, several other funds, and the city of Rotterdam, film scholar Paalman researched and prepared this in-depth study
"Transcommunality" celebrates Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata's work with The Brooklyn Jumbies for whom she creates costumes and wearable sculptures.
Drawing from the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, "Dutch Architecture in 250 Highlights" celebrates the collection's centenary with this portrait of the rich and varied architectu
"Corrected Slogans" looks at conceptual practices in contemporary art and poetry. In conjunction with the exhibition "Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art "at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Den
Published in conjunction with a retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, "Becoming" spans the entire career of Alice Maher (born 1956), one of Ireland's most respected and influential artists.
What with global warming, the war on terror, extreme political polarization, an unstoppable demographic explosion and migration, anarchy and chaos are becoming parts of our world system in hitherto un
Cloudline is a unique building designed by New York-based architect Toshiko Mori in collaboration with gallerists Sean and Mary Kelly, and situated on the slopes of the Hudson River. Works by Joseph B
Author of "The Soul at Work" and "After the Future," Franco Berardi Bifo (born 1949) is one of today's most articulate and prominent anti-capitalism theorists. Like many others involved with the 1960s
With his astounding building cuts and intersects, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) opened up elegant geometries in the very structures that seem most substantial and most authoritative in urban existenc
This "Source Book" combines critical essays and visual notes compiled by the Canadian-born, Berlin-based sculptor, installation and sound artist, over the course of a collaboration with composer and m
Since its inception in 1990, Witte de With has exhibited some 300 artists and, through its publications, lecture programs and participation in events such as the Venice Biennale and the Shanghai World
