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
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
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
What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with ar
Anne Tyng (born 1920) explores the potentials of geometry through her architectural and teaching practices. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis Kahn and independently pioneered space-f
Illustrated throughout with high-quality color photographs, this volume presents an overview of the musical instrument collection maintained by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Ranging from an ancient Gr
Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Lâeon Bloy. "Disagreeable Tales," first p
"Command Z" presents works by North American artists who have been pioneers in the area of art and technology. Pieces by Paul DeMarinis, Nina Katchadourian, Ingrid Bachmann, and team Emile Morin and J
Image plus narrative equals tableau--or "scenicity," as authors Jaroslav Vostr and Miroslav Vojte?chovsk y describe the phenomenon of staging, in the visual and dramatic arts and in commerce. In this
Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implement
Best known for the slashed and cut canvases--and related spatial environments--of the "Concetti spaziali" that he created primarily in the 1950s and 60s, Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1
The Brooklyn-based Jonny Negron, editor of the ongoing anthology zine "Chameleon," emerged in 2011 as a web sensation, appearing in many anthologies and the subject of numerous features in "Vice Magaz
A collaboration between artist Sophie Warren, architect Jonathan Mosley and writer Robin Wilson, "Beyond Utopia" looks at the practicalities of utopian thinking in urban planning and administrative cu
J & L Books' acclaimed "J & L Illustrated" series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. "Shout" magazine wrote of the first volume, publishe
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature, and emotive power, that the word "evolution" entails. Though commonly r
It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transie
A fascinating hybrid of noir action, cheap science fiction, and hard sex in a dream land called Los Angeles. Boris Vian had never been to Los Angeles, but that didn't stop him from writing the most bi
The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil is little known in his native country. In 1969 he left Czechoslovakia and for the next 23 years traveled through
Pablo Picasso may be the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few know is that in 1935, at age 54, Picasso stopped painting, and for a time devoted himself entirely to poe
This translation from the Italian first published in the US by Viking Press presents F.T. Marinetti's The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (1909) rejecting classical art, manifestos and art influe
Fiction. Music.This is the one and only novel by the 20th century provocateur of French pop music and film - the legendary Serge Gainsbourg. Evguenie Sokolov is a novel about an artist who uses his in
Essays explore the influence of art in twentieth-century American culture, including jazz, basketball, professional wrestling, magic, gambling, entrepreneurship, series television and automotive desig
"Lydia's Funeral Video" is a one-woman play written and performed by Samantha Chanse, a writer, performer, educator and arts organizer based in New York and San Francisco. In this apocalyptic satire,
In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist
Published on the occasion of her Aspen Art Museum exhibition, the artist's first solo presentation in an American museum, this catalogue focuses on Amelie von Wulffen's recent work, including painting
Abbey Hendrickson writes the highly trafficked blog Aesthetic Outburst, which documents her life in an old farmhouse in rural New York. In between DIY disasters, childcare catastrophes, book obsession
Carnegie Museum of Art's impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, prints and works on paper has never before been presented as a group. More than simply a selection of
Edited by Annette Stahmer, "Parole 2: Phonetic Skin" explores the relationship of skin to language. Contributors include Mladen Dolar (Professor of Philosophy, Ljubljana), Naomi Segal (Professor of Ge
The great Senegalese photographer Mama Casset (1908-1992) was introduced to photography at the tender age of 12 by the French photographer Oscar Latakia, a friend of his father's who tutored Casset in
Jindrich Pribik is perhaps one of the most complicated photographers anywhere. His work, made in the course of more than fifty years, comprises more than forty gradually formed, overlapping series, to
First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, "Lesabendio" is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery s
State of Craft features over 60 clearly explained step-by-step craft ideas ranging from pom-pom necklaces to old-jumper pouffes, contributed by key names in the international crafting community. A tho
