Newbie The True Story of an Unhappy Wife's Introduction to Bdsm by NatalieBell Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2015 by Bobtimystic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-945172-76-2, ISBN: 1-945172-76-2
"She was on one last family trip with her two daughters and soon-to-be-ex. He was a married father of two on a business trip. They met at a hotel bar. After a few drinks, an electrified kiss and an email address left hidden near his room later, they were off. To a lifestyle he'd left behind a dozen years ago--and a world that was brand spanking new to her. Along the way, she made discoveries far beyond the pains and pleasures of the fles ..."
Symbionts Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (Paperback) by Caroline A. Jones, NatalieBell, Selby Nimrod Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2022 by Mit Press Ltd, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-262-54448-1, ISBN: 0-262-54448-2
"In work by Toby Spribille , a third partner ( another fungus , a type of yeast ) has proven crucial in at least one lichen in his lab . Toby Spribille et al . , " Basidiomycete Yeasts in the Cortex of Ascomycete Macrolichens , " Science ..."
Don't Ask by NatalieBell Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2012 by Vagabondage Press ISBN-13: 978-0-615-66529-0, ISBN: 0-615-66529-2
"Two years out of college, Julie Spencer is realizing that her life isn’t turning out exactly how she had hoped it would. After four years and $150,000, she has a college degree that hasn’t gotten her anything more than administrative work, and she’s stuck in some sort of love polygon that’s better suited to high school than adulthood. Greg, the man she’s been with for almost a year, is still in love with his ex, Chloe. The man perhaps s ..."
"Work from Underneath marks the first solo museum show in the United States of Turner Prize–winning British artist Lubaina Himid (born 1954).A pioneer of the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s and ’90s, Himid has long championed invisible and marginalized histories, and throughout the last three decades, Himid’s works in drawing, painting, sculpture and textile have critiqued the consequences of colonialism and questioned the invis ..."
"This first major monograph on Guatemalan multimedia artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (born 1978) contextualizes his works in performance, sculpture, drawing and printmaking of the past ten years. Ramírez-Figueroa's installations often combine sculpture and aspects of avant-garde theater to allude to traumatic events that have shaped the political climate of present-day Guatemala. Ramírez-Figueroa expands on references to literature, folkl ..."
"Accompanying her forthcoming New Museum solo exhibition, this book surveys the recent work of Turkish artist Asli Cavusoglu (born 1982), who works in media, including artists books, videos, photography and installations pursuing a commitment to exposing the untold histories and politics contained in objects, images and materials. Writer and curator Amy Zion contributes a monographic essay examining the prevailing concerns of Cavusoglu's ..."
"“Trigger is a vital reminder that identity politics, far from being a failure, as the right and left alike are quick to tell us, is alive, well, and getting on with changing the world.” ―Aruna D’SouzaThe accompanying catalog for the New Museum’s exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features ..."
Unanswerable Questions by NatalieBell Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-09-768432-8, ISBN: 1-09-768432-6
"Unanswerable Questions contains a series of poems that dive into some of the most important and most neglected questions we can ask ourselves: What is compassion? How do we show it? Who am I? What is real? What is true? What does it mean to be present? You will find that these poems speak to your soul. They are the words that we all hear deep within, if only we should listen. This book is your chance to pay attention. Inviting you in to ..."
Newbie The true story of an unhappy wife's introduction to the world of BDSM. by NatalieBell Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2015 by Bobtimystic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-692-54298-9, ISBN: 0-692-54298-1
"The true story of an unhappy wife's introduction to BDSM. He was a married father of two on a business trip. She also had two kids, who were with her on one final family trip with her soon-to-be-ex. They met at the bar. A casual conversation, a quick electrified kiss and an email address dropped near a hotel door later, they were off. To a lifestyle he'd walked away from 20 years ago—and a world that was brand new to her."
"Combining formal innovation with dark humor and social commentary, the work of Romanian-born artist Andra Ursuta (born 1979) uses parody and blasphemy to expose power dynamics, probe the vulnerability of the human body and examine modes of desire. Ursuta’s sculptures and installations engage a visual language that weaves an art-historical homage with a homespun, anarchic sensibility. Ursuta has lived in the US since the late 1990s, but ..."
"A long-overdue survey of an essential West Coast artist whose humorous works delve into America’s underbelly and evolving counterculture. Over the past thirty years, Jim Shaw has become one of America’s most visionary artists, moving between painting, sculpture, and drawings, while building connections between his own psyche and the larger political, social, and spiritual history of America. Shaw’s imagery is mined from comic books, re ..."
""Maria Petschnig: Nineteen Videos 2000-2014" richly illustrates the work made between 2002 and 2014 of NY-based video and performance artist Maria Petschnig. Through her lens, Petschnig captures a fetishised, disquieting and humorous world, realised in dry, dark fantasies and crude dystopias. Depicting an awkward kind of eroticism, her powerfully provocative video pieces employ a keen understanding of the body and sexuality to invert su ..."
Don't Ask by NatalieBell 168 Pages, Published 2012 by Vagabondage Press Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-4764-9958-1, ISBN: 1-4764-9958-6
"Natalie Bell. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events,
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"The lush oil paintings of London-based Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist’s short stories as well.These imagined figures are almost always black, an attribute Yiadom-Boakye sees as both political and autobiographical, given her own West African heritage. Her elegant ..."
"This generously illustrated volume, published in conjunction with two major solo exhibitions, is the first monograph on an important young American artist. Another specter haunting Harrison's work is that of Detroit's defunct auto industry."