Product Description: Recent encounters between art and real life, the ubiquity of images of violence and humiliation in visual culture and the media, and the persistence of controversial debates on public and participatory art projects are raising fundamental questions about the importance of ethical decisions in art and curating...read more

Product Description: This book engages with the current debates surrounding the areas of art practice, curation, museology and the art market, by focusing on the changing roles of contemporary art's key institutions. It provides a cogent and accessible critique of the roles played by a variety of art institutions, from galleries and museums to commissioning agencies and funding bodies...read more

Product Description: The city of Hamburg provided the Galerie fr Landschaftskunst and the Kunstverein in Hamburg with an ideal example of an urban metropolis for a joint project entitled Mapping a City: Hamburg Cartography. In a series of works devoted to the exploration of urban space, international artists investigated ideas about nature and landscape...read more

Product Description: Documents the collection of the Grasslin family in Germany. This collection of often controversial art centers on contemporary art with social or political overtones, and includes works by artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Gunther Forg, Albert Oehlen, Fischli & Weiss, Mark Dion, and others...read more