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
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
"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-
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
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
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
The photographs and films of Croatian artist Slavica Perkovic (born 1959) often conflate events in her own life with imagined or projected characters and scenarios. The "Vertigo" project began in 1995
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
This issue of "DASH" examines the history and the future of the sustainable home, with particular attention to technical issues such as solar energy and ventilation and material-use concepts. Essays a
Art Situations is the name of a new private initiative in the Iberian Peninsula that aims to promote younger contemporary artists from that region with an annual exhibition and publication. The projec
Charles Ross' fascination with light, time and the space of the stars has produced a major earthwork, large-scale prism installations, sculpture, and painting with dynamite. From "Star Axis," a vast a
The luminous photographs of Carina Linge (born 1976) reference the classic still life and memento mori: glass bottles overflow with flowers just beginning to droop, and the light plays off the contras
Michael Wutz's etchings, sepia drawings and watercolors of strange, gloomy scenes crawl with intricate details. Hidden among the skulls, gallows trees and silhouettes of skylines are references to the
