"Portrait of a Generation" features more than 150 of today's most interesting and influential young artists pairing off and exchanging unique portraits of each other. This catalogue, which accompanied
Collector's Paradise" is Allen Ruppersberg's unique reflection on the history of popular American music. The product of years of combing flea markets and yard sales in search of both the visual and re
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
Where does personal story end and national history begin? Los Angeles artist F. Scott Hess (born 1955) explores this question in "The Paternal Suit," which consists of over 100 paintings, prints, and
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
Alongside Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Bernard Joisten, French artist Pierre Joseph was a crucial protagonist in the 1990s turn towards collaborative artmaking, exhibitions as soc
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
New York-based artist Urs Fischer (born 1973 in Zurich) has devised a surreal universe in which dust bunnies are magnified into landscapes and a lump of clay squeezed in the artist's fist becomes a to
As contemporary art in India becomes more widely recognized within the country, there has also been a growing awareness of its growth and impact internationally. The Matter Within: New Contemporary Ar
In 1914, Marcel Duchamp purchased a bottle rack, called it a sculpture, put his name to it and the "readymade" artwork was born. "It Is What It Is. Or Is It?" considers the legacy of the readymade in
"Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography" examines the role of the photograph in Warhol's art, its relationship to his portrait painting and his late paintings and prints, and his rigorous document
The small Kansas town of Matfield Green and the surrounding prairie hills are the focus of the latest extended project from acclaimed photographer and Kansas native Terry Evans (born 1944). A small to
Taking 523 posters found in the streets, graphic designers Rene Put (1962) and Rianne Petter (1975) carefully studied and deconstructed their composition, investigating and isolating certain elements
Since founding the T.O.P. ("Turn On Planning") Office in the 1970s, Belgian architect and artist Luc Deleu (born 1944) has been working on a critical, sociological and ecological approach to urbanism
In 2010, American photographers Amy Stein (born 1970) and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar (born 1977) embarked on a monthlong road trip throughout New South Wales. They were interested in investigating the Austr
First published in French in 1990, "Between-the-Images" unites 20 illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by Raymond Bellour (born 1939), one of the world's most prominent film theorists. Bel
Collects the writings of American artist, musician, and critic John Miller, ranging from reviews and cultural essays to theory and artist's statements.
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
In 2007, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) presented a surprising new project titled "Fairytale" at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds
In 1971, Harald Szeemann invited the American sculptor and installation pioneer Paul Thek to contribute to Documenta 5. Szeemann had named one section of the Documenta "Individual Mythologies," descri
"Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011" showcases 43 performances and live works by Danish-Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, marking the first time the artists' practice is conside
Swiss artist Rudolf de Crignis (1948-2006) began his career in video, photography and performance art. In 1985, a studio fellowship in New York introduced the artist to the work of American minimalist
Marcel Dzama's 2011 films "A Game of Chess "and "Death Disco Dance" revealed fascinating new developments in the artist's iconography and range of media--perhaps most notably in his use of puppets and
"Parkett" 91 features collaborations with Yto Barrada, Nicole Eisenman, Monika Sosnowska and Liu Xiaodong. Using photography and video, Yto Barrada interrogates borders, both geographic and economic.
This novel is the final publication of the Chilean filmmaker and author Raul Ruiz (1941-2011), who died last year, and who put the finishing touches to this book a few days before his death. Here, Rui
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
Australian artist David Noonan (born 1969) uses found imagery as the basis for his screenprinted canvases and sculptures. Enigmatic figures, printed in grainy black and white or sepia, pose in these e
Cornelia Schleime's (born 1953) works on paper depict a world in which women morph into antlered creatures and rabbits wear hunting coats. Immigrating from East Germany to the West in 1984, Schleime l
Dutch painter Koen Vermeule (born 1965) has said that the title of one of his paintings, "Out and About," would be "a good title for the rest of my work," as his subject material is found from his tra
Helge Leiberg's dancing bronze figures are frozen at a moment of high energy, dancing solo or in pairs, their limbs flung out with abandon. Inspired by Impressionist masters such as Renoir and Degas,
Edward Kienholz's life-size tableau "Five Car Stud" (1969-72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene:
Socialist Yugoslavia was a country suspended between cultures, political systems and Cold War blocs, and as a result, in the early postwar years it produced a body of modernist architecture that defie
Are "smart cities" the future of urban living? This book examines a five-year public-private partnership between the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom and the city of Friedrichshafen
A sequel to "3 Stadia 2010," "Next 3 Stadia" highlights new projects by German architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, and engineers Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, famed worldwide for their
"Thinking Europe: The Scenario Book" is a curatorial project that aims to construct a representation of the European community from the perspective of the arts. Ten curators from Europe and Asia were
For the past 20 years, Lithuanian-born artist Esther Shalev-Gerz (born 1948) has undertaken research into the construction of public memory through films, video installations, photographs and site-spe
Gabriel Orozco's "Asterisms" is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of detritus he gathered at two sites--a coastal wildlife reserve in Baja California, M
Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by t
Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from
American studio furniture icon Wendell Castle is one of the most important, influential and celebrated designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more than 50 years, he has consistentl
