Product Description: In 2002 Hans Ulrich Obrist began his conversation with a diverse and influential group of Mexican pioneers during an exhibition at Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City. Over a decade in the making, Conversations in Mexico beautifully captures how the Mexican cultural scene has pivoted several times--perhaps most importantly around the student protests at the 1968 Olympic Games--to cultivate a wholly radical and innovative aesthetic, one that is illuminated in the iconic buildings of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Teodoro González de León; the people and landscapes photographed by Graciela Iturbide; the music of Esquivel!; the incredible voyages of Santiago Genovés; the utopian politics and literature of Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz and Elena Poniatowska; the singular vision of Alejandro Jodorowsky; and the uncompromising art of Leonora Carrington, Felipe Ehrenberg, Pedro Friedeberg, Juan Soriano and Eduardo Terrazas...read more

Product Description: Swiss sociologist and pioneering urban planner Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) developed the concept of “strollology,” or the science of the walk. In Burckhardt’s concept, the only way to truly experience the urban environment is to move within it on foot...read more

Product Description: The oil portraits of London-based artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) depict characters who exist outside of a specific time and place. Typically completed in just one day, her pieces feature predominantly black subjects situated on ambiguous, sparse backgrounds...read more

Product Description: Primarily known for his paradigmatic "shelves" displaying everyday objects, Haim Steinbach (born 1944) has developed a practice that evolved from early minimalist painting with grids and monochromes to later large-scale installations that have seldom been seen in the US...read more

Product Description: A series of conversations held in 2011 with artists, filmmakers, writers and even the former mayor of Bogotá serendipitously turned into a mapping of the artistic landscape in Colombia's art scene just as it is exploding internationally...read more

Product Description: This book documents a recent collaborative exhibition of Per Kirkeby (born 1938) and Lawrence Weiner (born 1942). Kirkeby presented two new brick stone sculptures built in situ at the gallery space, while Weiner exhibited new and recent text pieces mounted on the gallery walls as well as on the inside walls of one of Kirkeby's sculptures...read more

Product Description: A rare opportunity to see unpublished works by Hiroshi Sugimoto reproduced at the highest standard Cahiers d'Art celebrates the 100th issue of the revue with Hiroshi Sugimoto. The issue, a true tribute to Sugimoto, is rooted in "The World is Dead Today," a story written by Sugimoto for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, in which his photographic works are juxtaposed against his eclectic antiques collection recounting the end of modernity...read more

Product Description: An intimate, powerful portrait of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world―her studio and home―and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested, waited―mischievous, or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end...read more

Product Description: Duane Hanson (1925–1996) was famed for his hyperrealist casts of humans, such as "Cheerleader," "Flea Market Lady" and "House Painter." This handsome volume surveys key works produced throughout his career, and features a series of previously unpublished photographs from the 70s and 80s of museum-goers interacting with the figures...read more

Product Description: This volume presents the titular text by leading UK video artist Ed Atkins (born 1982), well known internationally for his explorations of the impact of high-definition technology, on language and literary comprehension. Curator and academic Mike Sperlinger contributes a text contextualizing Atkins' writing...read more

Product Description: Following her 2010 retrospective at MoMA, this catalogue records a new performance by Marina Abramovic (born 1946) for the Serpentine Gallery, London. Documentation of works from throughout Abramovi´c's career, reperformed for the first time since their original debuts, is also included...read more