The current issue of Manifesta Journal is mainly concerned with two questions: how is the canon of curating to be defined and if “a history of exhibitions” must be written what should its parameters be? In art history, the canon has been losing ground since the 1960s, when the study […]
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson for her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yale University Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “new and excellent interpretation of […]
The rich and diverse collection of English drawings and watercolours in the National Gallery of Scotland will be the subject of a beautifully designed and generously illustrated catalogue, to be published this summer. Featuring outstanding examples of work by the most celebrated British artists, such as William Blake, J.M.W. Turner […]
Dutch Landscapes is shown alongside Treasures from the Royal Collection, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 15 April – 9 October 2011. Buy tickets. The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue Dutch Landscapes by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, with contributions by Jennifer Scott (Royal Collection Publications, 176 pages, 110 colour illustrations). Exhibition price […]
AMI is publishing Homage to the Creative Spirit: The Paintings of Jenness Cortez. For centuries artists have been challenging their intellects and skills by paying homage to the painters who preceded them. Today, Jenness Cortez has emerged as the twenty-first century’s most notable exponent of this facet of art history. […]
Sternberg Press announce Markus Weisbeck: Surface. Markus Weisbeck will present his new book at MOTTO Berlin on May 13, 2011, as part of Again, A Time Machine. With texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Adam Budak, William Forsythe, Anselm Franke, Liam Gillick, Christoph Keller, Albrecht Kunze, Andrej Kupetz, Zak Kyes, Aram Lintzel, […]
NEW VIENNA NOW is a multifaceted and sophisticated book for all those who have an interest in present-day creative Vienna. Designed by Stefan Sagmeister, the 384-page publication pictures and describes the wide range of Vienna’s contemporary art and creativity against the background of cultural tradition. In addition to its museums […]
A new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Three Fragments of a Lost Tale Sculpture and Story by John Frame is accompanied by a richly illustrated book edited by Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy, with an essay by art critic David Page. With 85 color and black-and-white illustrations, Three […]
@earth is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. It is a story without words told in the universal language of photomontage, long the favoured medium of radical artists. For the past four decades Peter Kennard has consistently challenged power structures and injustice, from his anti-nuclear works of […]
This Bowers Museum publication is produced in association with the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum, and the Cultural Heritage Bureau of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This soft cover catalogue is lavishly illustrated, including color photographs of each of the objects in the exhibition, along with […]