"Examining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy, whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all things queer.Dodie Bellamy (b. 1951, in North Hammond, Indiana) has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area's avant-garde literary scene, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, ..."
"Permanent Collection is inspired by the idea that the Aspen Art Museum’s exhibition program is constantly rotating and that the museum itself does not have a collection. This new publication series not only offers insight into the museum’s programming, but also contributes to the larger field investigating and responding to visual culture.Focusing on the idea of the institution, Permanent Collection I features interviews between Heidi Z ..."
"The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, an exhibition space and research institute in San Francisco, dedicates year-long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2016–17, the American artist David Hammons (born 1943) was "on our mind." The book begins with the previously unpublished transcript of a rare artist talk given by Hammons in 1994 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on the occasion of his e ..."
"Circular Facts is a collaborative endeavor between three European contemporary art organizations: Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; and The Showroom, London, in partnership with Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and Electric Palm Tree. The project acted as an informal think tank and a mutual support structure for the production and dissemination of artistic projects, and has culminated in an epony ..."
"Curated by Anthony Huberman at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the group exhibition and catalogue For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There explores the speculative nature of knowledge and insists on the importance of curiosity and the things we don't understand. Arranged around the premise that the world--and art--is not a code that needs cracking, the works in the exhibition center on the fru ..."
"Today, video is a familiar tool at the artist's disposal. But to those who experimented with the technology in the 1960s and 70s--when affordable equipment became commercially available--the capabilities inherent in the medium were unknown. Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas, and Bruce Nauman, among other American pioneers, used videotape to document and extend their performance work. Acconci, for one, produced conceptual, performance-based video ..."
"Documenting the recent two-person exhibition by Conceptual artists John Armleder and Olivier Mosset--close friends for more than 20 years--this volume proposes an active juxtaposition of parallel, and opposite, artistic approaches. Mosset is the consummate Minimalist, while Armleder pushes the aesthetic conventions of beauty to their excessive limit."
"Living in a cramped space where Beverly Hills and Calcutta meet every day, the artists gathered here explore the tension between wealth and poverty, among progress, stagnation, and improvisation, and between the violence and civility that animates the vibrant center that is Mexico City. Compounding the complexity of urban living, high rates of kidnapping, murder, and pollution become a daily threat. For the rich, the body becomes an obj ..."
"The Jackie is rooted in the Wattis's artist-driven research institute. It is a place to explore and share some of the texts and visual work that emerge over the course of an entire year of discussions and public programs."
"The CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco dedicates year long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2014–15, Joan Jonas (born 1936) was “on our mind.” This book brings together essays from writers, curators, art historians and artists that focus on a single work, from Jonas’ earliest films through her installation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The book also contains excerpts from readings and ..."
"This retrospective surveys the first five years of the project series The Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. The artists include Claire Fontaine, Kerry James Marshall and Tris Vonna-Michell."
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Nature of Disappearance, curated by Dieter Buchhart, June 28 - August 10, 2012 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 West 24th Street, New York, NY and 118 East 64th Street, New York, NY."
"Options with Nostrils brings together a collection of previously unpublished essays, both theoretical and visual, by artists, curators, a writer, a scholar, and a group of postgraduates from the Piet Zwart Institute's Fine Art programme in Rotterdam, who together founded the “Office for the Unknown.”Published as the outcome of a one-year-long project which curator Alexis Vaillant developed upon the invitation of Vanessa Ohlraun at Piet ..."
"Contributions by Stuart Bailey, Rob Giampietro, Anthony Huberman, J. Christopher Jones, Louis Kaplan, Edgar Allan Poe, Seth Price, David Reinfurt, David Senior, Giles Weaver Over the past few years, Dexter Sinister has been interested in exploring contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense. The first part of this book consists of pieces of writings written since the conception of their New York basement workshop and bo ..."
""RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA 05, billed as the city's first biennial of 'visual art performance.' Working with a tiny staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms. Goldberg put together a program that covered a lot of aesthetic bases--old school, just out of school, high-tech, no-tech--and encompassed more than 60 scheduled events... all of which makes the prospect of PERFORMA 07 shine with promise." --Rober ..."
"Grey Flags, a catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer. Comprised of nineteen artists with significant individual differences, Grey Flags assembles a group of works that not only resist categorical branding, but also go on in different ways to challenge the very terms of the "arts-apparatus."
John Armleder, Lutz Bacher, Helen Chadwick, Tacita Dean, Claire Fon ..."
"Alongside documentation of works in the exhibition are essays by Wattis Institute Director Anthony Huberman and Diego Villalobos as well as a unique glossary of terms associated with percussion, with contributions by Hannah Black, Geeta ..."
At the Speed of Stone Curated by AnthonyHuberman by AnthonyHuberman Hardcover, 10 Pages, Published 2012 by Marianne Boesky Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-9882752-5-6, ISBN: 0-9882752-5-2
"At the Speed of Stone is published on the occasion of the exhibition At the Speed of Stone, curated by Anthony Huberman. March 2- April 14, 2012 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 East 64th Street, New York, NY."