Fine Art

Elliott Erwitt’s latest book represents his carefully selected color photographs from his vast, nearly forgotten archive of primarily Kodachrome as well as some Ektachrome film slides. Kolor as a title is a subtle tribute to George Eastman (who liked words with the letter K because he thought people remembered them […]

Exhume these lively elements of our special thematic corpus: –Christopher Turner on spiritualist history of Lily Dale, New York –Catherine Hansen on the life-and-death relationship of Romanian writers Gherasim Luca and Gellu Naum –Mats Bigert on Swedish funeral candy –Deborah Lutz on reliquary books –D. Graham Burnett on the polychromatic […]

Published at the occasion of Nouvelles vagues, the 2013 summer season of Palais de Tokyo, this issue of PALAIS underlines the importance of the recently defined curator figure and sheds light upon current exhibition practices developed by the latter. In order to testify about this transformation in the art ecosystem, […]

Afterall is pleased to present issue 33, Summer 2013, in which different approaches to the exhibition of performance are framed within a broader examination of the performative in contemporary art. Through a close reading of the work of artists such as Xavier Le Roy and Mark Leckey, this issue of […]

Answer to: Happiness – What does it look like? With the title Jeppe Hein, A Smile For You a new catalogue published by Koenig Books explores happiness. It is a topic Danish artist Jeppe Hein intends to research for many years. Hein’s first outward step of this exploration includes circulating […]

Highlights include: Anne Wagner, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Wilhelm Sasnal, Simon Marshall and Shirley Baker on the different sides of LS Lowry, Theaster Gates and poet Terrance Hayes on Ellen Gallagher, Nick Aldridge talks to Gary Hume, David Hare on the life and times of his friend Patrick Caulfield, Rasha Salti […]

For the fourth time the Independent Publishers and Zine Fair Vienna will be hosted by Kunsthalle Wien at Museumsquartier, June 28 to 30, 2013. The successes of the previous fairs have resulted in this year’s event expanding to three days, and will again see more than sixty local and international […]

Under the motto “How we aim to work,” the June issue of Texte zur Kunst brings together contributions by authors who have been associated with the magazine for a long time and who have shaped its debates along the way. Instead of specifying a thematic focus, we left it to […]

The 10th issue of frieze d/e (June–August) looks to Switzerland with conversations discussing key aspects of the country’s art scene and history. Featuring Geneva-based artists John M Armleder and Mai-Thu Perret in conversation about their respective practices, art movement revivals and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. With a major retrospective of Meret […]

This month in Artforum: Carl Andre‘s abstract sculptures of the 1960s have become canonical, yet his equally monumental oeuvre of poetry remains obscure. Curator Gavin Delahunty introduces an exclusive selection of twelve poems by Andre—published here for the first time—in which tense order, seriality, and recursion confront literary reference and […]