Audio CD reissue of Just Another Asshole #5,which was originally issues as a 12" vinyl LP. Features 83 artists, performing 77 pieces or extracts each of 45 seconds. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca. ... [details]
Anthology of theatrical/performative scripts and documents conceived as of as a companion to Breakthrough Fictioneers and Essaying Essays. Compiled and edited by Richard Kostelantz. Features contributions by Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Blair H. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with long-term exhibition held at Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, of an landmark installation of LeWitt''s innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career. ... [details]
Artists' book edited by James Hoff -- a recompilation of Artforum magazine's monthly Top Ten column written by a rotating cast of artists, scholars, actors and other superstars from 1998 to 2008. Comprised of direct copies of the author's pages from the magazine coupled with black boxes representing the supporting images. ... [details]
"Contemporary Dance puts in to perspective the genius of American modern dance, explaining the meaning of the incredible variety of these new dances. Such distinguished dancers and choreographers as Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Laura Dean, Viola Farber, Alwin Nikolais, and Anna Sokolow tell how they work and discuss their ideas about dance. ... [details]
Special issue of Arts Magazine focusing on the New York gallery scene. Text by Nancy Schwartz, Therese Schwartz, Bernard Borgeaud, Luca M. Venturi, David Russell, Melinda Terbell, Brenda Richardson, Gordon Brown, Donald Miller, Willis Domingo, Atirnomis, Marianne Hancock, Andrea Mikotajuk, and Gordon Brown. ... [details]
"This book Inaugurates Artadia's Biennial Publications Program and features a complete two-year awards cycle through all five Artadia program cities during 2008 and 2009." -- publisher's statement. Texts by Franklin Sirmans, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Jen Mergel, Stephanie Smith, Michelle White and René de Guzman. ... [details]
Anthology of critical essays by André Breton. Artists, philosophers, and other figures mentioned in the text include André Breton, Corneille Agrippa, Guillaume Apollinaire, Apulee, Louis Aragon, Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Gaston Bachelard, Honoré de Balzac, Hans Bellmer, Bleuler, Umberto Boccioni, Jérôme Bosch, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, Bettina Brentano, Jean-Paul Brisset, Charles de Brosses, Robert Browning, Giordano Bruno, Alexander Calder, Leonora Carrington, Blaise Cendrars, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Cimabue, Joseph Cornell, Piero di Cosimo, Georges Courteline, Charles Cros, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, André Derain, Denis Diderot, Oscar Dominquez, Enrico Donati, Isidore Ducasse, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Eckhardt, Albert Einstein, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Serge Essenine, Joachim de Flore, Théodore Flournoy, Jean Fouquet, Charles Fourier, Esteban Frances, James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud, von der Gabelentz, Alberto Giacometti, Giotto, Goethe, Arshile Gorky, Mathias Grunewald, Gutenberg, David Hare, S. ... [details]
"How can an art exhibition function as a stand-in for the artists and their studios? How can a gallery project provide greater insight into an artist's practice, the way the formality of a slide lecture or the intimacy of a studio visit can? How can the back-story of the work on display be understood, without being solely reliant on a curatorial statement, catalogue essay or press release? This exhibition allows art to be understood as an ongoing and slippery practice, and less the finite, linear and object-oriented one assumed by the standard exhibition format. ... [details]
Set 2 of a series of playing cards by Don Cellender featuring images of well known artists superimposed over images of baseball players on semi fictionally titled teams. Verso has a representative image or statement about the art world figure pictured. ... [details]