Thames & Hudson presents David Hockney: A Bigger Picture to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, open 21 January – 9 April 2012. Illustrated with paintings, iPad drawings and video stills, many of which have never been seen before, this landmark publication confirms David Hockney as one of the greatest artists of his generation. David Hockney has always been closely associated with Pop Art and California, where he has lived for much of his life but this ... Read More
Thames & Hudson presents A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford. Sparky, illuminating and entertaining – a decade’s worth of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford that explore via anecdote, reflection, passion and humour the very nature of creativity. David Hockney is possibly the world’s most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong ... Read More
Two new publications from Bonniers Konsthall Translatability With texts by Erik Andersson, Sara Arrhenius, Magnus Bergh, J L Borges, Daniela Castro, Eduard Glissant, Aleksandar Hemon, Osman Lins, Clarice Lispector, Vladimir Nabokov, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Vladimir Safatle, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jochen Volz. Our world is enmeshed in translation. We translate between different languages, between images and words, between different types of signs, between different cultural spheres, ... Read More
Research and visual art have colored the context of many activities developed by Henk Slager over the last five years. Significant contributions to the debate on the situation of research in visual art resulted from his professorship in Artistic Research and his position of Dean of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (MaHKU) leading to productions such as the yearly Dutch Artistic Research Event (DARE) and the publication of the biannual MaHKUzine, Journal of Artistic ... Read More
This full-colour catalogue accompanies an international tour that features 70 twentieth-century paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, including masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others. Rich in illustrations the volume emphasizes the remarkable vitality, salience, and subversiveness of the twentieth-century’s best art. Insightful essays by leading scholars of twentieth-century art are ... Read More
Cabinet Books announces the coming of Bigert & Bergström’s “The Last Calendar,” your companion for the 356 days of 2012, the world’s final year. When the current cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar concludes on 21 December 2012, the world will end. Of course, this is hardly the first time the planet’s demise has been prophesied. In fact, Harold Camping, the Christian broadcaster who famously proclaimed that the Rapture would occur on 21 May 2011, has ... Read More
A major new publication from Te Papa Press is being launched at the National Weavers’ hui in Kawhia this weekend. Whatu Kakahu: Maori Cloaks is a beautifully illustrated new book that hopes to help open the storeroom doors of the Maori collections held in our national museum, home to the largest collection of kakahu (Maori cloaks) in the world. The heavily illustrated new book grew out of a wananga (school of higher learning) in 2007 and is a celebration and a tribute to all those who keep ... Read More
What is a translation? Do we only translate words, or perhaps also art? Is it possible to translate one culture into another? The symposium Exercises in Translatability, on 13 October 2011 at 2–7 pm, gathers a group of theorists and curators to discuss how we in a globalised world can relate to questions about translations and translatability—culturally, esthetically and linguistically. Invited speakers are influential thinkers such as Lisette Lagnado and Vladimir Safatle, and the guest ... Read More
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Artforum February 2012
Contrasto Books publish Francesca Woodman. The Roman Years. Between Flesh and Film
The Latin American Photobook by Horacio Fernandez
Bonniers Konsthall announces New book by Tomas Saraceno
Getty Publication Publishes Herb Ritts. L.A. Style
Royal Academy of Arts Publishes A Yorkshire Sketchbook by David Hockney
Thames & Hudson announces David Hockney. A Bigger Picture
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