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
From early architectural models and theatrical constructions to houses and utilitarian design, the sculpture of Thomas Schutte (born 1954) has pursued all categories of the medium; his website organiz
One of the U.K.'s most influential artists, Susan Hiller (born 1940) has used a broad spectrum of media, such as film and photography, print, found objects and audio and video installations, to repres
This signed and numbered limited edition of "Holy Works," the culmination of Andres Serrano's reinterpretation of Christian iconography, comes in a cloth box and includes a print. Serrano's intention
Beninese artist Georges Adeagbo (born 1942) began his professional life studying law and business in France-until his father's death in 1971 brought a halt to his degree, requiring him to return to Be
Das Institut was founded in New York in 2007 by Kerstin Bratsch and Adele Roder as space for collaborative possibilities that allowed them to leave their respective practices at the door. This artist'
Using painting, drawing and found photographs, British artist Ross Chisholm (born 1977) recreates and then disrupts imagery mined from centuries of British visual culture, from eighteenth-century soci
"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
Gathering a wide range of art from around the world, "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity" explores the enduring human desire to build farther and farther into the sky. Examined here are
A filmmaker and installation artist based in Toronto, Oliver Husain has called his pieces "attractive traps," for the way in which they offer up an initial interpretation to the viewer which is eventu
Darren Bader's "Life As a Readymade" is a four-part disquisition on contemporary art culture and his doubts about its terms of engagement. Addressing inanities, profanities and vanities in the contemp
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
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the founding of its permanent collection and the sixtieth anniversary of the unveiling of the "Art o
A stool with a prosthetic limb; a row of vitrified eyeballs; pairs of marching, transparent thermoplastic shoes: from his earliest paintings to his recent installations and kinetic sculptures, Indian
The debut exhibition of the Canadian-born Surrealist artist Alan Glass (born 1932) was organized by Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret. Glass settled in Mexico in 1962, developing relationships with loca
As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been
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
Filled with chapters on sustainable food production and permaculture, this volume presents the ideas and idealism behind Edible Park/Eetbaar Park, built in The Hague, the Netherlands in 2010, and desi
Bottles aligned on shelves or suspended in the air, jars of marbles and dye-filled tubes: form, substance and structure emerge from deceptively humble means in the sculpture of Tony Feher. His work us
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
Hans Ulrich Obrist's 2009 "Poetry Marathon" was an ambitious two-day poetry event held in Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery, with performances from leading p
In the 1970s Barcelona was a major nexus of Spanish counterculture, and the drag artist and painter Jose Angel Perez Ocana-known as Ocana-was at the heart of the scene. Ocana (1947-1983) was particula
"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
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
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
Esther McCoy (1904–89) was a keen literary stylist, perceptive architectural historian, and attentive witness to the birth of midcentury modernist design. McCoy’s impressive writing life spanned sixty
Created in 2007 by the Musee du Quai Branly and dedicated exclusively to non-western contemporary photography, the Photoquai Biennale presents the work of photographers from all the major geographical
Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first "Surrogate Paintings" (1978-82) to his
Norwegian-born painter Kjell Torriset (born 1950) combines fragmented figuration--primarily of nudes--with abstract signs, geometric shapes and words, dispersing them across a groundless backdrop to e
"The Nahmad Collection" showcases over two generations' worth of collecting by the iconic Nahmad family of Monaco. Over 100 works are featured in this catalogue and its accompanying exhibition at Kuns
A bricoleur of cosmologies, cities and signs, a hypnosis subject, a collaborator and a collector of art and ethnographic objects, Matt Mullican has embodied and redefined the wilder horizons of concep
Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects, deve
The recent paintings of Cordula Gudemann (born 1955) portray a world in which the abuses and violations of Abu Ghraib and the obscenities of war take place as entertainment, in venues such as circus r
For more than half a century, the German artist Barbara Schmidt Heins has drawn upon the energies of media-fragmented language and a style of abstraction informed by the urgencies of city living. Her
Matthais Meyer's paintings of cityscapes and landscapes combine and collide Monet's lusciously dissolved figuration with Gerhard Richter's harrowed, striated abstraction. (Meyer was a student of Richt
Andrew Gilbert's cartoon-ish history paintings dramatize British colonialism in India and Africa, through depictions of clashes in the Hindu Kush, the Zulu wars and in Amritsar. This smartly designed
Laura Owens (born 1970) is one of the most vital artists to emerge from the 1990s Los Angeles art scene, and a refreshingly uplifting presence in the world of contemporary painting. Her deceptively ro
The mobile phone, coupled with social networking sites like Facebook, has radically transformed point-and-shoot photography. German artist Nicolaus Schmidt (born 1953) zeros in on this paradigm shift
Amid the worldwide networks of finance and trade, a new international urban society is also emerging: a cosmopolis. "Metropolis" 5 looks at the structures of "cosmopolis" communities, exploring how ar
"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
