With pictures and stories about the smell of kraut and kerosene, the first prize at Rotenberg, the headquarters of domestic automobile concerns, Rolex Beach at the Neuner outdoor swimming pool, neckti
“A man walks into a bar. . . .”―the unmistakable prelude to a joke. This remarkable collection of artist’s postcards of the same name could not have a more fitting title. Drawn, written, or stuck toge
What would life be like without art? This is hardly a rhetorical question: for at least as long as art criticism has existed, there has been a great deal of philosophizing and speculation on the topic
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
While researching his essay for the dOCUMENTA (13), the artist Clemens von Wedemeyer (*1974) ran across a screenplay by director Eberhard Itzenplatz, complete with handwritten notes and drawings, at t
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
During the Soviet regime, the artist, author, and philosopher Vyacheslav Akhunov hid his notebooks in stables and barns, in murals and matchboxes. For the artist, the notebook is an autonomous artisti
For his notebook, the artist, writer and curator Raimundas Malašauskas stages a fictional séance with five other participants: the burlesque legend Dixie Evans, artist Christodoulos Panayiotou, litera
Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604–1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed studies of nature, the most important landscape painte
For the Berlin writer Ingo Niermann, the embrace of discipline ("drill") is the next step in the evolution of demoracy, for which he proposes a "Drill Palace."
David Link generates interactive projects at the interface between art, science and technology. For one such project, titled "LoveLetters_1.0," Link reconstructed a functional replica of one of the ea
Walter Benjamin began taking notes on Paris'' arcades in 1927, commencing an ambitious book project which sadly remained incomplete at the time of his suicide in Portbou in 1940. It was published post
In this notebook, artist Ana Prvacki and scholar Irina Aristarkhova discuss the concept of the greeting and the gestures and ethics of hospitality. Prvacki''s personal considerations of etiquette enco
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, was a writer who, as a young adult, developed a deep interest in mathematics, in particular in Charles Babbage’s work on the Analytic
Im Mittelpunkt von Cornelius Castoriadis'' (1922-1997) Denken stehen drei wichtige, eng miteinander verknupfte Begriffe: das Imaginare, Kreation und Autonomie. Sie verweisen auf das breite Spektrum vo
In the form of a 71-word lexicon, artist Mariam Ghani and her father, economist Ashraf Ghani, describe the cycle of repeated collapse and recovery that Afghanistan has undergone over the course of the
In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been depo
Can New York be a model for sustainable urban development? Inspired by the metropolis on the American East Coast, the architect Susanne Lehmann-Reupert (*1964 in Cologne) sets out on excursions across
The title of this book refers to the moment of wonder and amazement associated with the discovery of a city and its art and culture. The publication highlights the narrative aspects of contemporary ar
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
“Placing the artist, not the art”―Alanna Heiss, founder and longtime curator of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, reveals her crucial credos in her notebook “Placing the Artist.” According to
In slow motion, the writer Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) zooms down a side street off a long, paved street, along whitish-gray facades, dark front doors, the black-green silhouettes of pot plants
These previously unpublished notes by Salvador Dali contain anecdotes about author Stefan Zweig, who helped introduce the artist to Sigmund Freud, and the artist''s abiding concern with immortality, r
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflects on the relationship between destruction and art, and on art''s converse capacity for healing. Guiding us through a web of etymological, historical, philosophical, p
This notebook combines photographs by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir with a text by political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, who teaches at the City University of New York, written in response to the i
A reprint of diary pages from October 1980 by Erkki Kuriennemi (*1941), nuclear physicist turned artist and protagonist of electronic music in Finland whose work refutes, with a radical imagination, t
Our grasp of time continues to change, in wrenching ways. This is an exploration of these shifts and struggles, across drawing and text, music and movement, film and concepts. In the late nineteenth c
Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) is one of the twentieth century’s most important and unconventional artists. With Breakfast in Fur (1936), a teacup covered in fur, the young woman became a legend and key
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
During their exile from Nazi Germany, an intensive exchange unfolded between the writer Thomas Mann and the forty-years-younger philosopher and musicologist Theodor W. Adorno. The two letters from Man
Frederick the Great as a gardener? That is something new. In fact, however, under Frederick’s idiosyncratic guidance, the garden at Sanssouci became a mirror of his personal and political roles. Paths
Berardi draws an image of contemporary Italy as "Berlusconiland," where the Italian language has been debased, and the policies of "Mafia media moguls" permeate culture like a "psychopoison."
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
