"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
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
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
Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war
Sung Hwan Kim's art is an ongoing experiment with narration, of which he writes: "I thought of a room as a box from which a story vibrates, and I began to think about the constant occupants of rooms.
As a Chinese American boy works at his parents' hotel renting out rooms to johns and hookers, he engages in a quest to lose his virginity while struggling with concepts of friendship, family, class, r
Featuring works from the Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection, "Animal Spirits" comments on the current global crisis and the cultural climate it has fostered. The book's title references British economis
"Aperture" magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals w
From Raymond Loewy's austere "Form 2000" teapot set of the mid-1950s to the Sgrafo vases of the 1960s and the improbable "Fat Lava" glacis of the 1970s, postwar German ceramics exhibited a tremendous
From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America's greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems
"Aperture" magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals w
"Aperture" magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, among others. Thes
Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry's posthumous novel, "Exploits and Opinions
The gentle genius of Bruno Munari (1907-98) offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions and illustrative pictures to get adults and children working together. In this volume Munari sh
Centered around the woman's tattoo, the "malu", tells the story of three generations of women from two Samoan families touched by shame and grief over an uncompleted tattoo ceremony and echoed in illi
"Speak, Memory" is a critical reader accompanying Los Angeles-based Kerry Tribe's (born 1973) exhibition at the Power Plant. It includes artwork reproductions, an annotated script from her film "There
It seems like every trendy bar or boutique you walk into these days has the head of some animal gazing down from on high. For those of us who balk at hanging a decapitated mammal upon our walls, Craft
When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarme,
In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludi
"Entertainment" is a critical reader accompanying the Vancouver artist's recent exhibition of photographs at The Power Plant in Toronto. This body of work is a meticulous studio project for which Doug
Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a ph
All of Edith Dekyndt's work is made under the umbrella of what she calls Universal Research of Subjectivity, an enigmatic project concerning the place of the subject between the categories of science
Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zurn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father she idealized, the
In Drawing the Sun, Bruno Munari suggests: "When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them.
Presents an essay on Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting, "Christina's World," discussing the artist's inspiration, specific details, and the controversies surrounding both the work and his life after
