The Frick Collection presents a lavishly illustrated publication in English by Paul Holberton publishing, London, and in French by Editions d’Art Monelle Hayot, under the direction of Alexis Kugel, for it’s Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court exhibition (On view May 30 through August 19, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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Social Housing—Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice examines ongoing transformations in social housing and asks how these transformations are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists. Housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social. It represents and embodies the materiality of civic politics and […]
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents DIY. Photographers & Books an exhibition on view August 11–December 30, 2012 in the museum’sPhotography Gallery. Gomorrah Girl (2nd edition), 2011. Valerio Spada (Italian, b. 1972). 40 pages + 40 pages, 8.9 x 13.1 in + 9.4 x 8.3 in. Cross Editions, November 2011 […]
The 2012 Kraszna-Karusz Best Photography Book Award was given to Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty Publications, $195.00, hardcover) at the Sony Photo Awards in London on April 26. The extraordinary body of work produced by photographer Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) between 1858 and 1891 constitutes one of the longest […]
Reasonable people come up with all the reasons something new and different can’t be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way. Eli Broad, the founder of two Fortune 500 companies in completely different industries and one of the country’s most generous philanthropists, has turned reason […]
Internationally celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is often asked about the future of art. His answer is always that we have to listen to artists. Since 2005, Obrist has expanded this narrative to ask not only artists but also writers, architects, mathematicians, scientists, poets, photographers, designers, novelists, professors, lawyers, actors, […]
Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific is published by Te Papa Press this month. The lavishly illustrated book features fifteen essays on the history of Pacific people’s interactions with New Zealand and the impact New Zealand has had on its Pacific neighbours. Edited by […]
Françoise Gilot in conversation with John Richardson; Essays by Charles Stuckey, Michael Cary, and Françoise Gilot; Excerpts from Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake The catalogue is published with the exhibition “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953,” on view May 2–Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Gagosian Gallery […]