In this issue: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige—On the Lebanese Rocket Society Did the Lebanese really dream of participating in the conquest of space? It’s hard to believe and rather surreal. We ask our parents, our friends … No one remembers anything, no one knows what we’re talking about. It […]
Echoing the Palais de Tokyo’s new season, this issue of PALAIS magazine is infused with the poetic genius of Raymond Roussel, great explorer of invented worlds, causing us to topple over and over again into different mental geometries. Highlights of issue 17 include – Dossier: “New Impressions of Raymond Roussel,” […]
The March issue of Texte zur Kunst (No. 89) is dedicated to Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, who died one year ago. During the three and a half decades in which he was active as an artist, the vast majority of criticism written about Kelley—both positive and negative—was produced by […]
Mid-twentieth-century California offered fertile ground for design innovations. The state’s reputation as a land of unlimited opportunity, its many institutions of higher learning, and its perpetually booming population created conditions that allowed designers and craftspeople to flourish. They found an eager market among educated and newly affluent Californians, and their […]
Afterall issue 32, Spring 2013, examines contemporary approaches to image-making. The tension between transparency and opacity in photographic representation, the role of objects as images and the ethics of representation and self-representation are some of the questions addressed in this issue of Afterall through close readings of the work of […]
From emerging Australian artists to Anish Kapoor, explore dynamic, interactive publications that showcase artworks, exhibitions, artists and curators from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The MCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting and interpreting the work of today’s artists. MCA Publications – created specifically for iPad – feature a diverse […]
The accompanying title to the upcoming major exhibition at the British Museum: Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, 28 March – 29 September 2013. This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum – the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were […]
Badlands Unlimited announce the publication of Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Calvin Tomkins. In 1964, Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward […]
San Francisco Arts Commission and Heyday announce new book San Francisco Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932–2012 on Bookshelves April 1, 2013. History and art buffs alike can journey back in time and discover the events, politics and creativity that shaped San Francisco’s physical and cultural landscape. […]
March 2013 in Artforum: “The Eighties Called, They Want Their Painting Back”: This is Laura Owens‘s nickname for one of her recent works, whose acid neons and dragged filigrees certainly suggest a gleeful bout with MacPaint circa 1984. But then again, the ’80s never looked quite like this. Over the […]