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Gloria Kisch: Fusion of Opposites
The first comprehensive survey of the artist, Gloria Kisch: Fusion of Opposites clearly chronicles Gloria Kisch’s works through four essays and images from her three major periods, divided by her time...
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Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader
I remember first seeing Cai Guo-Qiang’s Inopportune, Stage One at a party just after the opening of the newly remodeled Seattle Art Museum in 2007. I thought the flipped and rolled cars suspended from...
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Touch Me: The Mystery of the Surface
“A study of the architectural Benutzeroberfläche is an examination of people’s needs, of traditions and rituals, of the definition of spatial content, of the dimensions of space, and of those spatial...
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Sol LeWitt: Structures 1965–2006
This book, based on a posthumous exhibition presented by the Public Art Fund in New York City, surveys the three-dimensional work of Sol LeWitt, better known for Conceptual works and wall paintings....
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Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil
This week, an unconventional book review. Culture Beyond Oil is really more like a compilation of short essays and manifestos, all addressing the fact that unethical oil companies should not be allowed...
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Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks
Art has always had an evasive relationship with self-definition. Artists have never liked being pigeonholed into a single art movement or category and, in an attempt to prove the critics wrong, they...
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Claes Oldenburg (October Files)
The preface of Claes Oldenburg, published by the editors of the October journal, reads less like an introduction and more like a warning label, an Intellectually Explicit Advisory: prepare yourself,...
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The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
Historically, art-making has been associated with individual expression and artists have been seen as creative geniuses isolated from mainstream society, attempting to communicate creatively through...
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Silence
Silence, edited by Toby Kamps, curator of modern and contemporary art at The Menil Collection, accompanied an exhibition of the same name that explored the paradoxical nature of silence, a phenomenon...
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Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works / New Territories / New Publics
Following The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency, published last year by ISC Press, Artists Reclaim the Commons makes the case for art as a driving force behind efforts to reimagine human relationships...
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Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975
In Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975, David J. Getsy, professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has anthologized Burton’s eclectic...
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International Collection of Essays About Kinetic Art | Volume 1
The idea of kinetic art is getting a bit of a workout at the moment. MIT Museum recently hosted “year of kinetic art, including “5000 Moving Parts,” a kinetic art exhibiton featuring large-scale works...
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Art and fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart.” – From the introduction of Art and fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of...
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Beverly Pepper: Monumenta
Beverly Pepper’s catalogue Monumenta opens with an introduction by art historian and curator Robert Hobbs, “Beverly Pepper: Time as Space,” in which he situates Pepper’s work within the critical...
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Playing to the Gallery
Playing to the Gallery is the published and polished version of Grayson Perry’s Reith lectures. Whilst the BBC Radio 4 talks are widely acclaimed in the media, Perry is, to some extent, a dividing...
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Unfolding the Archive Review
There is something quite apt about making an artist’s book in response to an archive – beyond the more obvious similarities of physical format. Both sit in the traditional sense as prescript...
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Code of Best Practices
The College Art Association’s (CAA) newly published pamphlet, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, is intended as a guide to assist visual arts professionals in understanding the...
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Documents of Contemporary Art: The Object
The Object is the latest in the Whitechapel gallery/MIT press series “Documents of Contemporary Art”, and is a book that does the breadth of its topic justice. Exhibition texts, interviews, manifestos...
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Starving to Successful
By way of justifying his art college’s lack of business of art courses, the former chair of the fine arts department at Ringling School of Art & Design, once told me that “our faculty are all...
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Rodin’s Visceral Vision
The new Musée Rodin book does an excellent job of framing Rodin’s multi-faceted legacy. It covers the artist’s beginnings, historical contexts, studio practice, and artistic achievements, including the...
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