Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own […]
The first comprehensive book on the life and work of acclaimed American artist Stanley Meltzoff has just been released. Stanley Meltzoff – Picture Maker was nearly done when Meltzoff passed away in 2006 and the project was put aside. Now, angler and IGFA historian Mike Rivkin has completed the job […]
Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview from 1971 to […]
On Wednesday, November 4, TASCHEN New York will launch a new graphic design anthology, Design for Obama. Curated by Aaron Perry-Zucker and Spike Lee with an introductory essay by New York Times design columnist Steven Heller, this book is a collection of the best works submitted by graphic designers to […]
Skate’s Art Investment Handbook: the Comprehensive Guide to Investing in the Global Art and Art Services Market, by Sergey Skaterschikov, will be released by McGraw-Hill in November 2009. (Hardcover, 304 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-07-162572-2, $65) Skate’s Art Investment Handbook is an essential resource for investors interested in alternative investment assets. It […]
Hypergallery is proud to present a beautifully-produced portfolio box set containing 10 signed limited edition photographs of Michael Spencer Jones’ iconic artwork as well as a large format book of mainly previously unseen images of Oasis as you’ve never seen them before. The box-set represents a publishing first and offers […]
The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) received three awards for its publications from the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC). “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection,” an exhibition catalogue, received a gold award for content. The art in the catalogue reflects the many changes that occurred […]
RISD announced the publication of Infinite Radius: Founding Rhode Island School of Design, the first anthology about the establishment of America’s best-known college of art and design in 1877. Infinite Radius presents a handsome compendium of rare archival photographs, scholarly essays, previously unpublished manuscripts and reproductions of early acquisitions in […]
Few buildings are as inspiring to read about as to experience, but Chicago’s Lake Point Tower satisfies on both counts. While its iconic curvilinear silhouette is world famous, its lesser known technical and design distinctions are now described in Lake Point Tower: A Design History, by Edward Windhorst, architect, and […]
In the first ever extensive collection and exhibition of her work Alex Box gives full access to images which radically unsettle and deconstruct conventional images of beauty in fashion. Using everything from pigment to post it’s to magically transform her models Alex opens up the human form to a fantastical […]