A set of 12 pencils based on John Baldessari's lithograph "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art," 1971. Text printed in black on white pencils. Includes a small reproduction of "The Pencil Story," 1972-73, as part of the packaging. [details]
The 18th book in The Conversation Series. In this volume Hans Ulrich Obrist talks with John Baldessari. Other artists and writers, such as Alejandro Cesarco, occasionally join in the conversation. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 1 – July 19, 2009. Edited by Martin Hentschel. Text by John C. Welchman. "Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to 'rub the building up the wrong way' with humorous interventions. ... [details]
Large-scale artist's book is based on John Baldessari's project for the Ringier Annual Report 2009. "For this superbly designed book, Baldessari has designed a sequence of enigmatically fragmentary and geometrically emphatic images, arranged rhythmically across the volume's landscape format, that slowly accrete narrative as the reader-viewer moves through the book. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, (curated by Diana Franssen), June 20 - October 4, 2009. Traveled to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, (Curated by Caroline Hancock), November 4, 2009 - January 24, 2010 ; Le Consortium, centre d'art contemporain, Dijon, France, (curated by Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim), April 2 - June 20, 2010 ; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, (curated by Judith Tannenbaum), October 1, 2010 - January 9, 2011 ; and the New Museum, New York, NY, (curated by Laura Hoptman), February 9 - May 1, 2011. ... [details]
Magnetic Poetry set based on seven works from John Baldessari's "Goya Series," 1997, and "Wrong," 1966-68. [details]
White rubber eraser with the words "WRONG" printed in black in center and "© John Baldessari" beneath. Inspired by Baldessari's 1967 painting "Wrong." [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Contents include: "Jay Sanders Reads John Knight," by Jay Sanders and John Knight; " "Coexistence, Yes, Equivalence, No." Francesco Bonami in conversation with H.D. Buchloh; "What Do You Plan to Do Next?," John Baldessari in conversation with James Welling; "Revealing Concealing," by Rainer Fuchs; "With Baldessari's Marilyn," by Alexander van Grevenstein; "The Problem with Library Taxonomy," Carol Bove in conversation with Philip Smith; "The Wormhole Theory," by Martin Herbert; "Style and Pastiche," Carol Bove in conversation with Bettina Funcke; "Shadow Play,"by Tom McDonough; "About Overlapping Cultural Histories of Production in Art, Design, and Fashion," by Josiah McElheny in conversation with Lynne Cooke; "Play and Display," by Branden W. ... [details]
Single sided folded poster published in conjunction with show held June 7 - August 8, 2009. [details]
Collection of the 35 statements on conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and the accompanying musical notation by Baldessari for his performance of the statements as song. "I'd like to sing for you some of these sentences that Sol LeWitt has written on conceptual art. ... [details]