e-flux journal issue 43 published

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 […]

PALAIS Magazine Issue 17 published

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,” […]

March issue of Texte zur Kunst dedicated to artist Mike Kelley

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 […]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art publishes A Handbook of California Design, 1930–1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers

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 Published

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 […]

Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

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 […]

Artforum March 2013 Published

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 […]