The Philippe Meaille Collection. Art Language Uncompleted. The Philippe Maille Collection provides a detailed and revealing view of one of the most complex aesthetic identities of the second half of t
The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. The ground for documentary storytellers has radically shifted over the last decade. How can socially minded storytellers adapt to this new terrain? Created in co
The Amsterdam Airport Schipol can genuinely be called a megastructure. Originally opened in 1916, Schipol has been added to in fits and starts over the years, maintaining throughout its construction a
Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Schutte (born 1954) is one of the most idiosyncratic of present-day artists, venturing to deploy techniques, genres and themes long thought passe--such as the sculptural
"Call Ampersand Response" is a collaborative artwork by Canadian artists Michael Dumontier (born 1960) and Micah Lexier (born 1974), composed of images exchanged via email over a period of several mon
Cheyney Thompson has made the technology, production and distribution of painting the subject of his work. His "Chronochromes" (2009-2011) are composed using the color system devised by Albert H. Muns
"Positioning the Art Gallery" traces the history of galleries in Amsterdam beginning around 1960. American artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt and Allen Ruppersberg, as well as Dutch artists s
Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British-born sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling of a range of materials--marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass--first explo
This volume documents an installation by Cildo Meireles and Antoni Muntadas at the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp. For this occasion, the artists divided the space with a transparent partition; on one side
German painter Frank Rodel (born 1954) has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own
In 2000, the famous French gallerist and collector Yvon Lambert installed her personal art collection in a splendid eighteenth-century mansion in Avignon. Throughout the 1960s, Lambert was among the l
In After Hiroshima, American artist elin o’Hara slavick attempts to address the aftermath of the 1945 bombing--historically, poetically and visually. This act of ethical seeing brings to us with harro
Published in conjunction with a retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, "Becoming" spans the entire career of Alice Maher (born 1956), one of Ireland's most respected and influential artists.
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 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
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
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
Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. Composed of a revolving cast of media pract
Finnish video artist and photographer Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959) tells the stories of ordinary human beings undergoing what seem to be bouts of insanity or supernatural occurrence. This volume reco
This signed and numbered deluxe edition reintroduces the Cuban photographs of Andrew Moore (born 1957). Taken from 1998 to 2012, "Cuba" offers a series of poignant interiors that display the changing
A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed "Arcana" series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interview
The installations of Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (born 1957) use neon signs and mirrors to create luminous semiotic environments. This artist's book records works from the late 1990s to the presen
Takehito Koganezawa's understated video animations, based on his drawings of figures and abstract shapes, often tackle the largest of themes with the humblest of means. His works in all media express
Emerging from New York's Lower East Side in the city's early 1980s No Wave scene, the "Cinema of Transgression" aimed at outright shock, provocation and confrontation. Young filmmakers such as Richard
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
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
"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
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
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
"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,
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
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
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
Renowned French architect Jean Nouvel designed the Serpentine Gallery's pavilion for 2010, and created a commanding, eye-catching all-red structure designed to mimic the moment "when the summer sun ca
Patrick Weidmann (born 1958) explores fetish as a property of both objects and of photography. His photographs of Jacuzzis, an airplane seat or a soft toy deliberately overindulge in advertising rheto
"Resisting the Present "showcases the work of Mexico's "New Generation" of artists--the creative forces behind the country's recent and much-discussed art boom. Born mostly after 1975, the 20 artists
Founded in 1992 by internationally renowned theater artist Robert Wilson, the Watermill Center on Long Island, New York, is a unique performance art laboratory for young and emerging artists. This com
Utopian models for urban planning have noticeably declined in popularity since the late 1970s, and their decline has led to the neglect of vestigial social pilot projects--simple leisure facilities li
