Articles in Book
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Announces Woodblock Prints. Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights
Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights features three hundred of the finest woodblock prints from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The prints were chosen for their rarity, remarkable state of preservation, and superb artistry. From the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they represent the creativity of forty artists, including such renowned masters as Masanobu, Harunobu, Shunshō, Shunkō, Kiyonaga, Shunman, Utamaro, Toyokuni, Sharaku, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. Arranged ... Read More
Ancestors of the Lake. Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay Wins Tribal Art Book Prize
An international jury of art scholars and professionals has awarded the third annual Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal (International Tribal Art Book Prize) to Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. The Menil Collection published the book – which was edited by Virginia-Lee Webb – to accompany an exhibition of the same title (presented at the Menil earlier this year, from May 6 to August 28). The richly illustrated volume contains essays by ... Read More
Manifesta Journal launches new series online
Manifesta Journal announce the launch of its third series. The format of Manifesta Journal (MJ), like the Manifesta biennial, is a changing model. It aims to facilitate a platform for a critical analyses into international curating and biennials in general. Every six editions, a new editorial team from diverse areas of Europe and beyond is invited to develop a different concept for the series, reflecting on contemporary Europe and the world. For the first time in MJ‘s history, MJ #13–18 ... Read More
Launch of Cabinet’s new 24-Hour Book series, with Brian Dillon
At 10 am on Saturday, 10 December 2011, author Brian Dillon sat down at Cabinet’s event space in Brooklyn, New York, and began writing a book. By 10 am the next morning, the completed book was at the printers and is now available here. Thomas Rowlandson, The Brain-Sucker, or The Miseries of Authorship, 1787. Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University The inaugural volume in Cabinet’s new “24-Hour Book” series, Dillon’s book explores the scenography and architecture of writing ... Read More
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil Announces New Publications
Two publications finish off Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s activities in partnership with SESC in 2011: Olafur Eliasson – Your body of work, the first Brazilian book on the artist, and the new edition of annual contemporary art reflection publication Caderno SESC_Videobrasil 7 – A Revista (The magazine). The book and magazine will hit Brazilian stores and the SESC virtual bookstore (www.lojasescsp.org.br) in December, in bilingual editions. A collaboration between Videobrasil, ... Read More
David Hockney. Bigger Picture by Filmmaker Bruno Wollheim
David Hockney: Bigger Picture is film-maker Bruno Wollheim’s account of David Hockney’s return to his native Yorkshire, after 25 years of living in California. Filmed over three years, it finds the artist at a crisis point in his life and art. Hockney has come back to oil painting after a six-year break, for the first time working outside, directly from nature, en plein air. At the age of 70, he is painting through the seasons and in all weathers. He also wants to be filmed at work – ... Read More
Steven Holl Architects and William Stout Architectural Books Announce New Book. Horizontal Skyscraper
Steven Holl Architects and William Stout Architectural Books are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Horizontal Skyscraper. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and watercolors, the book documents the design and construction of the Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center, which opened in Shenzhen, China in 2009. Horizontal Skyscraper includes texts by Steven Holl, Lebbeus Woods, Yehuda Safran, and Li Hu. William Stout Books will host a book signing event for Steven Holl on ... Read More
