Product Description: Published to accompany a group of exhibitions in Vienna, Why Painting Now? looks at the relation of painting to information and communication media and other issues of contemporaneity. Curators such as Ei Arakawa, Yve-Alain Bois, Tyler Coburn, Antony Hudek, Franklin Melendez, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Martin Prinzhorn, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Caroline Smulders and Jan Verwoert contribute...read more

Product Description: Four decades after he first burst onto the international art scene in the early 1980s, Albert Oehlen (born 1954) remains among the most influential and controversial painters of the present. Operating between figuration and abstraction with vigor and energy, Oehlen relentlessly critiques painting’s history, its clichés and its relationship to the imagery of the advertising and pop industries--all within the medium itself (rather than in another art form)...read more

Product Description: Considered a central figure of Pop, installation art, and Happenings, Claes Oldenburg redefined existing notions of art in the 1960s with his landmark environments “The Street” and “The Store,” his soft sculptures and his proposals for monuments...read more

Product Description: Before spider holes made their media debut, there was Bruce Nauman's spectacular 1972-74 installation Audio-Video Underground Chamber. Its single concrete vault, with dimensions close to those of the human body, is buried--like a coffin--one and a half meters deep...read more