Large-scale artist''''s book deconstructing the boards and trustees of major art museums throughout the United States. The publication examines board memberships, political leanings and the financial support members provide to both art institutions and political parties. ... [details]
"An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines—Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews—for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26 West Fifty-Seventh Street, in the heart of Manhattan's gallery district. ... [details]
Compendium / chronology documenting both the artists'' books of Edward Ruscha, and the books inspired by, or aping, Ruscha''s artist''s books. Edited by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner. ... [details]
Compendium of critical texts on the art of Claes Oldenburg. Edited and with an essay by Nadja Rottner. Additional essays by Joshua Shannon, Yve-Alain Bois, Julia E. Robinson, Ellen H. Johnson, Benjamin H. ... [details]
Monograph on the video work of Andy Warhol by Douglas Crimp. Comprised of six essays with accompanying video stills. "Crimp argues that Warhol's films make visible new, queer forms of sociality. Crimp does not view these films as cinéma-vérité documents of Warhol's milieu, or as camera-abetted voyeurism, but rather as exemplifying Warhol's inventive cinema techniques, his collaborative working methods, and his superstars' unique capabilities. ... [details]
Large-scale critical overview of alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s, developed from an exhibition of the same title held at Exit Art, New York, September 24 – November 24, 2010. Edited by Lauren Rosati, Mary Anne Staniszewski. ... [details]
"In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films, hallucinatory ink-blot graphics, enigmatic collages, or assemblages from castoffs, Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue / monographs published in conjunction with show held at Brooklyn Museum, September 14, 2012 - February 3, 2013. Preface by Lucy R. Lippard. Essays by Catherine Morris, Vincent Bonin, Julia Bryan-Wilson. ... [details]
"How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself--in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax. ... [details]
Collection of writings by Ai Weiwei published between 2006 and 2009 on his blog. Edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy. "In 2006, even though he could barely type, China''s most famous artist started blogging. ... [details]
