"Display Today" charts the 25-year history of Museumstechnik Berlin, a firm specializing in exhibition design through collaborative partnerships between architects, artists and technicians. The firm's
The Cologne-based firm ASTOC combines expertise in both urban design and architecture. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of its projects, such as HafenCity in Hamburg--Europe's large
Kedron Barrett's paintings celebrate the tangibility of surfaces and space, and above all, the endless nuances of light itself. The motif of the house provides the means by which he explores these the
This volume pairs two Swiss artists with a profound debt to Pop art: first-generation Pop painter/sculptor Peter Stampfli (born 1937) and the younger sculptor Davide Cascio (born 1976). Both draw on a
Karin Sander's "Patina Paintings "are created at--and by--the site of their exhibition. Sander transports blank canvases to the exhibition venue and leaves them outside, unprotected, to accumulate the
Nathalie Grenzhaeuser's most recent photographic series document the world's most sparsely populated regions: the Australian outback and Spitzbergen in the Arctic. But Grenzhaeuser does not only docum
Situated at the interaction of art, architecture, music, mathematics, cosmology and science, Matthew Ritchie's "The Morning Line" is a 33-foot high sound pavilion, constructed in aluminum and conceive
Ann Hamilton's "Stylus" installation at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis was conceived as both sanctuary and laboratory--an attempt to link "the building's interior state of reflectio
What prompts architects, at any given moment in history and in any given culture, to return to the architectural past for inspiration? "Dash 06: Living in a New Past" investigates, in essays by Nelson
Over the past 30 years, the German designer Mathias Hoffmann has designed furniture, lamps and household accessories for companies such as Rolf Benz, de Sede, Tonon, Brown Jordan and Lloyd Flanders. "
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) is a much loved figure in the early history of animated film. At an early age Reiniger discovered the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, and made her first silhouettes for
Using classical sculptural techniques, Peter Senoner (born 1969) has factured a small population of alien beings realized in various materials, whose heads and/or feet are swollen as though with some
The motifs of Bodo Korsig's woodcuts and reliefs resemble blown-up microscopic creatures or organic entities that appear at once both decorative and menacing. Korsig has often made artist's books with
"Big Picture" presents 12 film and video installations that relate the film screen or monitor to the space around it. The participating artists are Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Rodney Graham, Kimsooja
In Axel Teichmann's colorful but ominous narrative tableaux, humanity is depicted as beset by machines such as rockets or complex winch systems, struggling for control over them as both nature and tec
Dense, meticulous cross-hatching covers the surfaces of Moussa Kone's detailed ink drawings, which depict surreal, allegorical scenes of human folly and bizarre plights. Images of megalomania, herd be
"Among Heroes" looks at the use of quotation and reference in the work of contemporary artists such as Claudia Angelmaier, Hanna Brandes, Jan Dorre, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sabine Gross, Carina Linge,
"Tswi" accompanies Klaus Lomnitzer's recent exhibitions at Kunstverein Munsterland, Coesfeld, and Kunstverein Ludwighshafen. Its primary focus is the titular sequence, an epic 42-panel painting on PVC
Gereon Krebber (born 1973) utilizes such materials as plastic film, burnt wood, construction foam, gelatin, Post-it notes and even preserved pig's trotters to create astonishing, large-scale, site-spe
From the twitch of a finger to the expansion of the universe, motion informs and shapes every facet of our world and culture. "Figure of Motion" is itself a dynamic publication, shifting easily from r
This volume is a chronology-cum-travelogue of the "Knot" project, a curator's collective that initiated temporary platforms for art in public spaces in Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest, operating in each
Like his contemporaries Neo Rauch and Michael Triegel, Leipzig painter Peter Krauskopf (born 1966) was a student of Arno Rink, who encouraged his students to pursue their own paths, however unfashiona
This fourth installation in the "World Images" series (begun in 2005) accompanies the exhibition at Helmhaus Zurich and includes photographic series by Darren Almond, Edward Burtynsky, Georg Gatsas, A
The Viennese architect Michael Wallraff has spent years examining the use of vertical spaces in the city's fabric and devising new ways of fostering public spaces. This first overview of Wallraff's pr
"Notes from a Quiet Life" provides a rare opportunity to view works by a true photographer's photographer, who has traded prints with America's leading artists, but who refused museum and gallery exhi
With this ambitious volume, The Why Factory throws down the gauntlet to the city of Hong Kong. A theoretical and visual expedition into Hong Kong's future, "Hong Kong Fantasies" plots out alternative
Artist, singer, curator and visual poet Boris Ondreicka (born 1969) compiles two series in this volume: the long poem "John Doe & Joe Bloggs," typeset in a portrait orientation; and "Spoken Word/W
Since 2009, photographer Armin Linke and architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss have been documenting ex-Yugoslav Socialist architecture-buildings that were either left vacant or only recently repurposed wh
The Banco de Londres y America del Sud in Buenos Aires was built between 1959 and 1966 through the efforts of a large team of designers and engineers, headed by the collaborative offices of Sepra and
Tatiana Bilbao's single-family house on a lake front in the Mexican state of Jalisco and Derek Dellekamp's medium-rise apartment building at the center of Mexico City are the focus of this fourth publ
Produced in collaboration with the artist's estate, this Matador "Artist's Portfolio "compiles some 20 unpublished black-and-white drawings by the Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Palazuelo (1916-20
Best known for his wry and witty drawings, British artist David Shrigley has built up an artistic practice that, over the past two decades, has expanded well beyond drawing to include photography, scu
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
Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed "World Stage" series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that weste
This attractive clothbound monograph surveys the career of Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt, whose colorful sculptures using "poor" materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl occupy
"Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?" is a reader that brings together essays, artists' writings and works, and countercultural publications to examine the juncture of the political and the eroti
Cerith Wyn Evans' exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall consisted of various audio, neon and light works and his sequence appropriating Marcel Broodthaers' erasure of Mallarme's poem "Un Coup de Des." This s
Since the mid-1940s, the sculptures and drawings of Andreu Alfaro (born 1929) have stood at the forefront of Spanish modernism. His Matador "Artist's Portfolio "consists of 17 geometric drawings deriv
Between 1903 and 1964, when he laid down his camera for good, Ortiz Echague (1886-1980) documented a vanishing, pre-industrial, rural Spain with heroic diligence, traveling thousands of miles to photo
Published for the artist's 2011 exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery, this volume documents Sara Greenberger Rafferty's explorations of television, comedy and the power of the image. Drawing from the e
