"It was for the gods that these earthworks were made and Marilyn Bridges photographs them as they were meant to be seen-- from the heavens. Markings is Bridges's elegant record of the signs of ancient culture on the earth's surface. Her photographic quest began with a flight over the plains of Peru. From a small aircraft she witnessed the extensive spirals, "runways," and animal figures carved into the earth by the Nazca Indians. Her van ..."
Curatorial Activism(1st Edition) Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly, LucyLippard Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-23970-4, ISBN: 0-500-23970-3
"A handbook of new curatorial strategies based on pioneering examples of curators working to offset racial and gender disparities in the art worldCurrent art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year’s Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of a ..."
"This catalogue documents and provides a context for the issues raised by SITE Santa Fe's inaugural exhibition, Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby. The exhibition included 31 contemporary artists: Marina Abramovic, Chema Alvargonz lez, Francis Alys, Robert Ashley, Rebecca Belmmore, Barbara Bloom, Imre Bukta, Carlos Capeln, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Braco Dimitrijevic, Felix Gonzlez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Gary Hill, Jenny Hozer, Re ..."
"New York City is the undisputed center of the North American art world, and its public art is one of the most evident signs of its cultural wealth. For more than 30 years, Creative Time has been an avatar of public art in the city, working to engage art and the environment, artists and the public. Creative Time: The Book shows how a single organization made it possible for thousands of artists to present awe-inspiring works that engage, ..."
"The book presents critical reflections, and philosophies on a variety of eco-art practices and methodologies.--http://www.cornerhousepublications.org."
"Unceded Territories is a major and timely review of the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, spanning thirty years of his painterly and polemical practice. It places the artist's concerns in dialogue with this moment in our shared histories. An artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent, Yuxweluptun lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver, British Columbia. He calls himself a history painter, a monumentalist, a moder ..."
"Before she coined the term "feminist art" and produced the movement's most iconic work, "The Dinner Party," Judy Chicago (born 1939) was living in Los Angeles and making work partly inspired by the city's "Finish Fetish" and "Light and Space" schools--serial abstract pieces characterized by throbbing color, logo-like geometricism and slick production values. Unlike the sculpture of her male Los Angeles contemporaries, however, Chicago's ..."
"Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an antholog ..."
"The catalogue raisonne "Robert Mangold: Early Works 1963-66" for the first time entirely documents and links two of Mangold's earliest series, and explores the role this early work played in shaping Mangold's future art-making practice."
"The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find ..."
"The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find ..."