"Hreinn Fridfinnsson, edited by Melissa Larner. 2007 paperback published by the Serpentine Gallery, London. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. The catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 17 July -2 September 2007 and at the Reykjavik Art Museum, 10 November 2007-27 January 2008."
"This catalog provides new scholarship on Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) by focusing on his encounters with London and his legacy in contemporary sculpture."
"Since they were founded in 2001, Trolley Books has been highly regarded as a maverick independent publisher of photography, reportage, contemporary art and recently, literature. Trolley's founder Gigi Giannuzzi is a well-known figure in the publishing and photographic industries for his original and dynamic approach to photobook publishing as well as his unrelenting support of photographers and important but underexposed stories. In a s ..."
"The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, by the seminal Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be his first completed structure in the UK. Sited on the Gallery’s lawn from June 20th to September 14th, it will offer visitors an opportunity to experience a space designed by one of the founding figures of modern architecture. Oscar Niemeyer was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1907, where he graduated from the Escola Nacional de Belas ..."
"For too long church leaders have focused on increasing the size of their church rather than increasing their reach outside of the four walls of the church building. The result? Church life becomes a predictable set of routines with predictable results. Church members struggle to reach the neighborhoods they drive through on their way to church programs, unable to penetrate their surrounding communities in a meaningful way. Reaching the ..."
"The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) as a multipurpose social space with a café. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, its torus-shaped fiberglass shell resembles the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect."
"The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971)--the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The Serpentine’s past pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid (2000). Inspired by organic struct ..."
"Published to accompany the exhibition LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, this flip book focuses on one of Sturtevant's more recent works, Finite Infinite (2010), a large scale projection that features a dog running in an endless loop across an expanse ..."
"In 2008, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei joined forces to design the celebrated Beijing National Stadium for the Olympic Games. In 2012, the team came together again for the Serpentine Gallery's acclaimed annual commission, as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. Their pavilion takes visitors beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previou ..."
"As a pioneering conceptual artist, performance artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has influenced several generations of artists, musicians and cultural workers across the globe. Throughout her career, Ono has explored an incredible range of media, coining new kinds of artistic genres--most notably with her instruction pieces, which she began making in the 1950s and c ..."
Mark Leckey See, We Assemble ; [on the Occasion of the Exhibition Mark Leckey: See We Assemble at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 19 May - 26 June 2011] by Kathryn Rattee, Hans Ulrich Obrist, JuliaPeyton-Jones Paperback, 87 Pages, Published 2011 by Serpentine Gallery / Koenig Books London, England ISBN-13: 978-1-905190-41-6, ISBN: 1-905190-41-7
"This exhibition encompasses sculpture, sound, film and performance."
"Every year the Serpentine Gallery, located in the heart of Hyde Park in central London, invites an internationally renowned architect or designer to design a temporary pavilion in their grounds for the summer. In 2006, a 24-Hour Interview Marathon event took place in the Pavilion designed by architect Rem Koolhaas. It featured over 60 world-renowned artists, architects, writers, designers and theorists, among them David Adjaye, Damien H ..."
"Working before Kandinsky and Malevich, Hilma af Klint was arguably the first abstract painterHilma af Klint graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1887, established a studio in the city, and began creating and exhibiting traditional landscapes, botanical drawings and portraits. Privately, however, af Klint was already beginning to discard what she had learned at the Academy in favor of painting the invisible world ..."