The Real World: Matthieu Laurette and Seth Siegelaub discuss the legacy of Conceptual art, the origins of curating and how art history is made, in a conversation moderated by Vivian Sky Rehberg. ‘Do you believe in art, Seth?’ ‘I believe that art can increase our awareness of the world around […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
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The Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Arena 1 Gallery invite you to a conversation and book signing of La Gráfica Política en México / Political Graphics in Mexico. On March 23rd 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Meet the authors: Rocío Mejía Flores, Mexican feminist and leftist economist, […]
Cabinet issue 48 published with a special section on “Trees.” Climb above the canopy for a clear view of: – Dan Handel on Dietrich Brandis and the birth of modern forestry – Jonathan Allen on trees as a tool of war – Yara Flores on the fate of Shel Silverstein […]
In recent years, debates surrounding the concept of art have focused in particular on installation art, as its diverse manifestations have proven to be incompatible with the modern idea of aesthetic autonomy. Juliane Rebentisch, author of the newly translated Aesthetics of Installation Art (Sternberg Press, 2012), asserts that installation art […]
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 […]