Product Description: Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the most accomplished and recognized contemporary Nordic artists working today, and Parallel Worlds presents her most recent bodies of work. Ahtila has been an indefatigable pioneer of multi-media art since her video and performance breakthrough in the 1990s, and her influential position in cinema was cemented in 2011 when she was appointed to the feature films jury of the Venice Film Festival...read more

Product Description: Coming After looks at the work of artists who "came after" the queer politics and AIDS activism of the mid-1980s to early 1990s: Ulrike Müller, Jimmy Robert, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Aleesa Cohene, Glen Fogel, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Christian Holstad, Danny Jauregui, Adam Garnet Jones, Jean-Paul Kelly, Tim Leyendekker, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, James Richards, Emily Roysdon, Dean Sameshima, Jonathan VanDyke and Susanne M...read more

Product Description: This catalogue gathers work that explores recent changes in the perception of nature. The 12 artists featured are Lothar Baumgarten, Mark Dion, Cai Guo Qiang, Peter Doig, Mario García Torres, Kimsooja, Tetsumi Kudo, Charly Nijensohn, Yoko Ono, Marco Pando Quevedo, Willem de Rooij and Liang Shaoji...read more

Product Description: Tracing a tendency in contemporary art over the last decade away from the irony and cynicism that marked the 1980s and 199s, this publication offers a sampling of complex works marked by what could be called neo-sincerity. Artists and writers look at how emotions are expressed and manipulated in the name of art, the emotional exchange between artist, collaborator and viewer, and the difficulty of expression and generation of emotion in contemporary visual art...read more

Product Description: This book documents and exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists who are active at the cutting edge of the global fiber-art movement, transforming fabrics into sculptures, pictures, emulations of nature, or even abstract meditations on memory and identity...read more

Product Description: Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale, Establishing a Critical Corpus is the first theoretical examination of the work of Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957), in six illustrated essays by authors including scholars Claire Bishop and Hal Foster and the poet Manuel Joseph, providing a variety of angles on Hirschhorn's practice...read more

Product Description: Borrowing its title from Roman philosopher Lucretius in his epic poem dedicated to Epicurean philosophy, this exhibition catalogue assumes a multi-linear and non-directional curatorial approach to several individual artistic practices...read more

Product Description: Between Zones explores the possibilities of documenting time-based works. Examining the intersection of disciplines such as sculpture and installation, or reproducible media, such as film and photography, with the fields of dance, music and performance art, this publication outlines the theoretical underpinnings of these relationships...read more

Product Description: Among its many planned activities, MAXXI will be organizing a series of exhibitions on particular themes with works from its own collection, together with a small selection of works on loan, chosen for their particular relevance to the topic in question...read more

Product Description: This exhibition opens the new season at the Riso Museum in Palermo. Without in any way wishing to be moralistic or didactic, the exhibition, with 24 leading exponents of the contemporary art scene on display, deals with fundamental ethical issues regarding the very concept of "creation" and the theme of the artist's responsibility; the extent to which he or she manages to involve the visitor in an interpretative journey through essential themes - through signs, symbols and metaphors - which are at the same time both simple and complex...read more

Product Description: At once a philosopher, educational and medical reformist, mystic and artist, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was the founder of a spiritual movement he dubbed Anthroposophy, and of the famous school system that bears his name. Anthroposophy combined elements of German philosophy with Theosophical theory, and also made use of architecture, dance (Eurthymy), painting and sculpture to illustrate his ideas...read more

Product Description: Since 1999, the Hammer Museum's Hammer Projects series has furnished international and local artists with a laboratory-like environment to create new work or to present existing work in a new context. Published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the series, this volume compiles all 80 of the projects featured so far--by artists including Amy Adler, Edgar Arceneaux, Fikret Atay, Walead Beshty, Paul Chan, Aaron Curry, Tara Donovan, Nathalie Djurberg, Tony Feher, Mark Grotjahn, Mark Handforth, Arturo Herrera, Elliott Hundley, Jim Isermann, Runa Islam, Jesper Just, Emma Kay, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, Paul Morrison, Paul Pfeiffer, Hiraki Sawa, Simon Starling, Kaari Upson, Kara Walker, Phoebe Washburn, Pae White and Sun Xun--alongside texts by Hilton Als, Regine Basha, Aaron Betsky, Nayland Blake, Alex Farquharson, Russell Ferguson, Malik Gaines, Tim Griffin, Massimiliano Gioni, Dave Hickey, Vasif Kortun, Libby Lumpkin, Midori Matsui, Linda Norden, Raphael Rubinstein, Laurie Simmons, Dean Sobel, Ali Subotnick and Steven Vincent...read more

Product Description: Dutch artist Marc Bijl shifts as effortlessly between anarchism, gothic culture, art and life as he does between the media of image, text and music. Echoes of Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys abound.