Compendium of essays and criticism by Mike Kelley, compiled and with an introduction by John C. Welchman. The first book in what was intended to be a three volume series. Includes an index. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Tate Modern, London, October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, February 5 - April 25, 2010; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 20 - September 12, 2010; and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011. ... [details]
Issue no. 57 of the periodical "art / text," edited by Paul Foss. Contents include: "Passionate Descriptings," by Barbara Stafford; "Tune In, Take Off," by John C. Welchman; "Ronnie Van Hout / Overimpressed," by Robert Leonard; "Helga Groves / Before the Rain," by Juliana Engberg; "Sharon Ellis / Cosmopolitan Nights," by Sue Spaid; "Doug Ischar / Smoking Guns," by Catherine Lord; "Jennifer Bornstein," by Russell Ferguson; "Gary Simmons / Disappearing Acts," by Nancy Princenthal; "Ellsworth Kelly / How to be Tangential," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; "Jim Isermann / Best of Both Worlds," by David Pagel; "Roy Villevoye / Relative to the Moment," by Frank-Alexander Hettig; "Carolee Schneemann," by Barry Schwabsky; and "Index. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the New Museum, New York, October 7, 2015 - January 10, 2016. Curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Massimiliano Gioni with Margot Norton. ... [details]
Monograph of work by Mike Kelley. Essays by Isabelle Graw, John C. Welchman, Anthony Vidler, Georges Bataille and Charles Fort. Includes chronology of selected exhibitions, projects, articles, interviews and a bibliography. [details]
"This publication reunites Mike Kelley's major interviews with artists and cultural figures such as AA Bronson, Larry Clark, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince, Jim Shaw, Michael Smith, Jeffrey Sconce, and John Waters, outlining, in the same manner as his critical essays, an artistic genealogy that draws its references from American popular culture, scientific and historical research, and the inhibitions of Western society. ... [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]
Second volume of Mike Kelley's collected writings. "Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. 'Statements' consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; 'Some Aesthetic High Points,' an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms—approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Tate Modern, London, October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, February 5 - April 25, 2010; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 20 - September 12, 2010; and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011. ... [details]
Artists' book / exhibition catalogue for show held at Tate Liverpool, February 20 - May 3, 2004 and traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Köln, July 15 - October 31, 2004. "Taking Freud's idea of the Uncanny as a starting point, artist Mike Kelley plays Sunday curator and presents work by Hans Bellmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Edward Kienholz, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Paul McCarthy, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Paul Thek, and others (reprinted from a 1993 catalogue), plus photos of chewing gum wrappers, postcards, record covers, and toys, all connected to ideas of youth and the Uncanny. ... [details]
