"In-Sight" is the second volume in a series on the Wemhoner Collection, providing a glimpse into some of contemporary photography's trends, from portrait and landscape photography to overpainting and
Chapardages style volupt. Anton Henning links together a network of ironic borrowings and references from recent art history that extends to the era of Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon.Interiors, still
This new title in DuMont's themed Emil Nolde series, which includes "Wanderlust and Unpainted Pictures, is devoted to the painter's garden and flower pictures. Wherever he settled, Nolde always plante
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
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
"Caribbean Pirates" offers a peek inside Paul and Damon McCarthy's stage set for their 2006 video projection of the same name, reproducing production shots, installation shots and video stills. Allusi
Pop Art: USA / Europa" offers a representative sample of international Pop art: from America, Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Alex Katz; from England, David Hockney, Allen Jones and
Doug Rickard's "A New American Picture" offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditio
Comprised of Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid and Jacob Whibley, the Canadian collective Team Macho spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration, producing w
The four artists in "Expanded Territory"--Agnieszka Brzezanska, Giulio Frigo, Eva Kotatkova and Aida Ruilov--hail from Poland, Italy, the Czech Republic and the United States, respectively, but were a
The immersive soundscape installations and intimate environments of the Canadian artist duo Janet Cardiff (born 1957) and Georges Bures Miller (born 1960) present an ongoing series of chapters in the
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
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
For his retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zurich, currently housed at the Museum Barengasse, Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) reworked his entire oeuvre of video works and cardboard and board
"Kindred Spirits" looks at the influence of indigenous art from the American south west on modern and contemporary art. It juxtaposes funerary vessels, paintings, pottery, weavings and baskets from 14
Austrian-born, Berlin-based Markus Schinwald, born in 1973, is known for mixed-media installations and films that investigate the psychological relationship between space and the human body. This mono
Purposely overlapping the traditional categories of artist book and monograph, analogue is an amalgam of images that forms a visual account of what motivates artist Cameron Martin's methodology and pr
This translation from the Italian first published in the US by Viking Press presents F.T. Marinetti's The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (1909) rejecting classical art, manifestos and art influe
Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in Metamorphoses and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with The Tree Sh
Journalist and photographer Lili Holzer-Glier's (born 1988) Rockabye provides a glimpse of post-Hurricane Sandy Queens--its damaged landscape and debris, as well as its residents, who continue to pay
Landmark is a collaborative body of photographic work generated over the last five years in Pontiac/Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. In this volume, photographers J.W. Fisher and J.T. Leonard focu
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
Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher first achieved widespread recognition in the late 1960s and 1970s for a body of experimental films that deconstructed the language of cinema, both
Over the past 25 years, Jorg Friedrich and his prominent Hamburg architecture firm PFP Architekten have completed a wide range of public and private architectural projects such as theaters, schools an
Explores the photographs of two master photographers, Harry Callahan and Edward Weston, through the relationships of vision and desire. While the well-known bodies of works have been understood as nud
The work of Belgian artist Ante Timmermans (born 1976) ranges from very simple black-and-white drawings that depict ghostly skyscrapers and mediate on urban desolation, to installations using record p
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
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
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
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
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. "
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
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
"Glass of Water" provides an overview of Tony Matelli's sculpture of the past ten years, from his extraordinary (and sometimes scary) hyperrealistic sculptures of monkeys in combat and maimed humans t
For German artist Stefanie Gutheil (born 1980), painting is an expression of the untamed imagination, and she unleashes a fantastical cast of asexual ghouls, monsters and freaks upon her canvases. Pai
A selection of artwork provides an overview of Agnes Martin's career, from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and gridded grey paintings and use of color in various formats, to
In the small Dutch city of Deventer, a pair of projects recently emerged that unite individual art practice and urban planning: the development of a disused mid-twentieth-century hospital complex; and
William Kentridge's recent work is situated on the border between art and science: by examining our perception and understanding of time, he reconsiders the creative process. A work in progress in the
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
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
