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 […]
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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 […]
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the twenty-fifth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. Editor Scott McLeod has assembled an array of writers and artists, all of whom engage with the subjects of land and sea in their critical explorations of labour, industry, transportation, communication […]
Temptation is the allure, the weapon of MEPHISTO, A Faustian legend, a devil disguised as a religious man. He/She lives: In the minds of all who breathe, In the bodies of all who sleep, In the souls of all who are not what they seem. Color him red, or color […]
Sam Francis. Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994. Edited by Debra Burchett-Lere with featured essay by William C. Agee. Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994 This innovative and long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together, for the first time, all the known paintings on canvas and […]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announce that the museum has been awarded a $375,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the implementation of its first online collection catalogue, featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg in the museum’s permanent collection. Robert Rauschenberg, Collection, 1954–55; oil, paper, fabric, wood, and […]
A new publication Narrative Deficiencies Throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition, Tony Swain. Drowned Dust, Sudden Word, brings together over 65 works ranging from 2006 to new work produced for this exhibition in 2012. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays by Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery Fiona Bradley and writer […]
Cabinet Books and Bookhorse announce their co-publication of Lytle Shaw’s The Moiré Effect. Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm […]
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 […]
The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm is proud to present an exhibition, on view 13 April 2012, and an accompanying catalogue focusing on one unique but essential aspect of Isidore Isou‘s work: his innovative and ultra-contemporary contribution to the novel, especially what he called the hypergraphic novel. Book cover “Isidore […]