Fine Art

History’s Shadow, a new photography book by artist David Maisel (Nazraeli Press, $75, hardcover, 72 pages, ISBN 978-1-59005-278-4), examines art and artifacts through museum conservation x-rays. Like spectral transmissions conveying messages across time, the images in History’s Shadow make the invisible visible – expressing the shape-shifting nature of time itself […]

Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s (Henry Holt and Company/on sale: July 19, 2011), by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, is the first definitive look at the rise of the Los Angeles art scene. In the 1960s, L.A. was the epicenter of cool. Sharing anecdotes from the artists […]

Age of Silver is iconic American photographer John Loengard’s ode to the art form to which he dedicated his life. Loengard, a longtime staff photographer and editor for LIFE magazine and other publications, spent years documenting modern life for the benefit of the American public. Over the years he trained […]

Third title in the CONVERSACIONES/CONVERSATIONS series. The Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros announce Jac Leirner in conversation with/en conversación con Adele Nelson, the third title in the CONVERSACIONES/CONVERSATIONS series. The 200-page bilingual (English-Spanish) book presents an extended dialogue between the Brazilian conceptual artist, Jac Leirner, and writer and art […]

Over the years, The Saatchi Gallery has launched the careers of many young artists who have since become household names. For the first time one book, The History of the Saatchi Gallery, chronicles the breadth of work exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery from Lucian Freud to Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol […]

The book focuses on 93 paintings that are central to Van Gogh’s years in Antwerp and Paris, a period that has been somewhat underexposed in the past. This is the first time the paintings produced in this period have been subjected to detailed scrutiny and interpretation. The Van Gogh Museum […]

The project “Hacking the City” took place on the occasion of the “European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.” Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called “Mapping the Region.” Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum activities. More than thirteen projects […]

PHotoEspaña awards nine prizes every edition which recognise the Festival’s best exhibitions, the year’s most outstanding publications and the professional path of Spanish and international photographers, both well-known and emerging. With these awards the festival recognizes the important function that the publishing industry takes as a way for the diffusion […]

But his most important contribution, in my view, lies in the fact that he is (maybe more than he is aware of) searching for modalities in art that go beyond objecthood. As he phrases it in these pages: “We must experiment with ways beyond objects.” Some, including myself, think that […]

The latest book of Thomas Palfy, writer-photographer, Postcards from South Gippsland has been published through www.CreateSpace.com. It is a richly illustrated record of the author’s recent tour of South Gippsland, in South Eastern Victoria. It features pictures of waterfalls, rainforests and beaches of the local National Parks and Nature Reserves […]