Institution for the Future is an archive of ideas bringing together reflections by artists, curators and other cultural workers on what an institution for the future should and needs to look like. The need to evolve our ways of working has always been necessary. In light of the drastic changes […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Badlands Unlimited is to participate in the 2012 NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, on September 28–30, 2012. Badlands will premiere On Democracy by Saddam Hussein, co-published by Deste Foundation; E-book editions ofMade in USA, magazines produced by Bernadette Corporation in 1999–2001; Holiday by Paul Chan, published in an […]
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter continues its curatorial production model of publishing books and recordings independently of its exhibitions. This fall, HOK’s in-house record label, Prisma Records, releases a series of new as well as historic commissions of works by experimental and electronic sound artists. Kare Kolberg and Anders Kjar, NOVA, Henie […]
The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (D.U.C.) is a program of Art Resources Transfer, a non-profit organization dedicated to establishing a more egalitarian access to the arts through publishing (A.R.T. Press) and the free distribution of books to underserved communities across the United States (D.U.C.). Since 1990, the D.U.C. […]
The September issue of Texte zur Kunst is dedicated to conflict and reflects on the current state of (art) criticism. The end of art criticism has been predicted for quite a while now. As far as we can see, the dilemma, however, is not that criticism is no longer possible […]
domus: iPad edition 961/September 2012, is n available as a free download. Gideon Fink Shapiro visits two new libraries designed by David Adjaye as agents of social change within a peripheral neighbourhood of Washington, DC. In a special multimedia feature, Federico Nicolao travels to Otro, a “skateable sculpture” by artist […]
The 6th issue of frieze d/e has a special focus on painting. ‘You want to make a painting, and you do it with your hands … you create a gesture. Maybe many of them, maybe few. But gesture is the inevitable mechanics of making an art object.’ Frank Stella Painting […]
Independent Curators International (ICI) have announced Thinking Contemporary Curating by Terry Smith Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the volatile territory of international curatorial practice and the thinking—or insight—that underpins it. In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how […]
e-flux journal issue 37 is out now with contributions by: Lawrence Liang, Metahaven, Amelia Groom, Nato Thompson, Claire Tancons, and Anton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood. In this issue: Lawrence Liang—Shadow Libraries If the utopian ideal of the library was to bring together everything that we know of the world, […]
Printed Matter presents the seventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 28 to 30, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than […]