"This monograph on Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based painter Kamrooz Aram (b.1978) presents the Palimpsest series, which was in part inspired by graffiti on the streets of New York, and its constant painting-over by the authorities, only for it to become covered again in graffiti. The ongoing cycle of painting, covering-up and repainting in the urban environment connects with Aram’s long-standing fascination with modernism and the legacies of ..."
"This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews--with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of tel ..."
"Anton Vidokle is an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects. Yet comparatively few members of this audience consider him an artist, despite the fact that he has publicly identified himself as such for over a decade and has exhibited in museums and galleries across the world. The contributors to this book emphasize two a ..."
"How structures and systems divide up private and public space: 15 years of work by Iranian multimedia artist Nazgol Ansarinia Tehran-based artist Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979) examines the systems and networks that underpin her daily life, ..."
"Fifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty.In an age of global instability, the threat of chaos looms. Or is the threat more spectral than real? The fear of chaos may simply be our response to living in a world controlled by powerful forces beyond our understanding. Chaos and Awe demonstrates the aptness and relevance of pai ..."
"Pouyan was born in Isfahan in 1979, the year of the Iranian Revolution. Skyhigh is my place partially fills MDD's main exhibition space with wheat and inverts a military control tower in its patio."
"Published on the occasion of the first museum survey of mirror works and drawings by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, held at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, this catalogue offers a critical and art historical view on a singular body of work produced over a career of more than 40 years. According to curator Suzanne Cotter, Her history, like so many artists from Iran and the broader Middle East, is one of starts a ..."
"In 1962, George Maciunas declared Fluxus "anti art, concept art, automatism, Bruitism, brutalism, Dadaism, concretism, Lettrism, nihilism, indeterminacy--theatre, happenings, prose, poetry, philosophy, plastic arts, music, cinema, dance." This thorough, well-designed volume culled from the renowned Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit, and published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, ..."
"Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings and nightingales. Coming of age during World War II, she left occupied Iran and audaciously set out for New York, where she was quickly absorbed into the city's thriving avant garde. In the decades to follow, during successive exiles in Tehran and New York, Farmanfarmaian ..."
"In 2013, Iranian artist Reza Aramesh (born 1970) installed five sculptures in five nightclubs in New York City. The sculptures, which drew on media images of violence and conflict, were exhibited in boxes and viewable through keyholes. This book documents the project's conception and progress."