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 […]
The accompanying title to the upcoming major exhibition at the British Museum: Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, 28 March – 29 September 2013. This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum – the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were […]
Badlands Unlimited announce the publication of Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Calvin Tomkins. In 1964, Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward […]
San Francisco Arts Commission and Heyday announce new book San Francisco Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932–2012 on Bookshelves April 1, 2013. History and art buffs alike can journey back in time and discover the events, politics and creativity that shaped San Francisco’s physical and cultural landscape. […]
March 2013 in Artforum: “The Eighties Called, They Want Their Painting Back”: This is Laura Owens‘s nickname for one of her recent works, whose acid neons and dragged filigrees certainly suggest a gleeful bout with MacPaint circa 1984. But then again, the ’80s never looked quite like this. Over the […]
Printed Matter, Inc., the New York-based non-profit organization committed to the dissemination and appreciation of publications made by artists, will host a Benefit Auction and Selling Exhibition at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space to help mitigate damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. During the storm, Printed Matter experienced severe basement flooding […]
Issue 8 of frieze d/e turns its focus to the Rhineland with a roundtable featuring Renate Goldmann, Hannes Loichinger, Marcel Odenbach, Susanne Titz and Gregory H. Williams who discuss the myths and realities of the Cologne art scene in the early 1990s and the effects of its enduring legacy in […]
A Step Out of Time: To coincide with a touring retrospective, currently on view at Tate Liverpool, Quinn Latimer looks at the late Sylvia Sleigh‘s extraordinary ‘history pictures’. ‘In our present moment we like her paintings because we think that they capture a time that we are nostalgic for. Nevertheless […]
Dozens of biographies have been written about Charles Darwin, one of the most influential thinkers in history. Now, for the first time, his life is portrayed pictorially in an illustrated biography in graphic novel-style for all ages to enjoy—especially younger readers. Darwin’s 1859 groundbreaking treatise On the Origin of Species […]