"The live performances of British artist Cally Spooner (born 1983) consider the ways in which labor and communication make demands on our bodies. Spooner engages actors, vocalists, dancers and musicians who collectively interrogate gesture and language. The artist’s 2016 exhibition at the New Museum, Cally Spooner: On False Tears and Outsourcing, marks an important shift in her live performances, extending their duration to the length of ..."
"For the last five years, New York and Toronto based artist Brendan Fernandes has explored how stillness and static movement can be powerful tools of resistance. Informed by his training in ballet and modern dance, Fernandes’ practice routinely explores the role of the body within social and political spaces, questioning and breaking down the notion of hegemony. For Fernandes, choreography serves as a remarkable tool for decoding and unp ..."
"Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master. Distributed for Mercatorfonds"
"How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Félix González-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and ..."
"A unique 360‐degree view of an incomparable 20th-century American artist One of the most emulated and significant figures in modern art, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) rose to fame in the 1960s with his iconic Pop pieces. Warhol expanded the boundaries by which art is defined and created groundbreaking work in a diverse array of media that includes paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, films, and installations. This ambitious book is t ..."
"Contemporary visual culture has been dominated by futuristic utopian and dystopian ideas that reflect a longing for a seamless interface between the virtual and real, as well as a desire for a release from the constraints of space and time. Constructed around both speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments, these ideas contribute to a pervasive visual rhetoric that influences our sense of things to come. Delving into th ..."
"Beirut-based artist Mounira Al Solh’s (born 1978) ongoing drawing and embroidery series documents personal experiences of political crises and displacement in Syria and the Middle East. This catalog includes a selection of her legal pad drawings. "
"Edited by Steven Henry Madoff, Brian Kuan Wood With contributions by Nana Adusei-Poku, Nadim Abbas, Valerie Amend, Lux Yuting Bai, Zach Blas, Jesse Darling, Gilles Deleuze, Hendrik Folkerts, Patrick Jaojoco, Herman Melville, Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi, Vera Petukhova, Jovanna Venegas This issue of OnCurating takes political resistance and sanctuary as its subject, with Herman Melville’s nineteenth-century literary avatar Bartleby—famou ..."
"Alongside documentation of the performances, this book includes insight into Fernandes' work with texts by Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrik Folkerts and Dakin Hart."
"The genesis of this project is linked to the historical nature of the Museo del Novecento, a museum that houses one of the world’s leading collections of Italian 20th-century art: starting with the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, and all the major representatives of Futurism, it moves on to other currents and great figures like Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio de Chirico, the abstract art of the 1930s, Art Informel in the 19 ..."
"More than thirty years ago the Swiss-Argentine artist Vivian Suter (1949) moved to the rain forest in Panajachel, Guatemala, to live on a former coffee plantation. Since then she has worked on her impressive paintings in her wooden-hut studio, as well as outdoors. The tropical garden is her playground; her canvases lie on the sandy ground or hang in trees; dust, mud, leaves, mangos, and insects leave their traces on them. Her painting i ..."
"Here, artists are invited to explore the theme of national identity as it is experienced in everyday life. The volume, which is published for an exhibition at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, includes work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Nicoline van Harskamp, Lucia Nimcova, Job Koelewijn, Barbara Visser, Yael Bartana and Gert Jan Kocken."
"Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a significant expansion in the field of transhistorical exhibition practice―that is, exhibitions in which objects from various art-historical periods and cultural contexts are put on display together. These juxtapositions are made in an effort to question traditional museological notions like chronology, context and category in the space of the museum itself.Drawing on the expertise of ..."