Reasonable people come up with all the reasons something new and different can’t be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way. Eli Broad, the founder of two Fortune 500 companies in completely different industries and one of the country’s most generous philanthropists, has turned reason […]

Internationally celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is often asked about the future of art. His answer is always that we have to listen to artists. Since 2005, Obrist has expanded this narrative to ask not only artists but also writers, architects, mathematicians, scientists, poets, photographers, designers, novelists, professors, lawyers, actors, […]

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 […]

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 […]