Contemporary art

A selection of drawings by the New Zealand outsider artist: her work, recognized belatedly, provides a journey into a grotesque, sometimes somber universe, filled with animals, distorted human bodies, and cartoon characters.

The crucible of creation: portraits of New York artists in the intimate seclusion of their work spaces.

Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.

An investigation into sex work in the dance world; cops but artists; in Lebanon, the revolution without confession; the artistic project Fjord City, 2114; after nature, with Vinciane Despret; Romain Huët and the carnal experience of the riot; Diao Yinan, Chinese banditry in chiaroscuro...

This January in Artforum we invite critics and artists—from Tim Griffin and Amy Taubin to Ilya Lipkin and Kerry James Marshall—to take measure on the newly renovated MoMA. Plus, Hal Foster on the art of Rachel Harrison, Kate Sutton on Hana Miletić, and a special previews section with over 40 exhibitions worldwide; including Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern, Hilma af Klint at Moderna Museet, and more.

Spike's winter issue #62 – “The 2010s” – traces the rise and fall of trends like post-internet art and normcore, and bids farewell to older forms of identity politics that have since been replaced by activism, algorithms, social media, and other forces that transformed the cultural landscape of this decade of disquiet.

Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.

The relationships of art and pop music from the 1960s to the present.

Catalogue of the artist's exhibition in the Portuguese pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a sculpture project engaging the heritage of post-war Italy's architecture and Italian vernacular craftsmanship.

This catalogue presents the artist's Sail Paintings series—32 hybrid compositions reminiscent of a boat's sail. This monumental publication (30 x 40 cm) is designed as a graphic extension to the project.

This catalogue stems from two eponymous exhibitions examining Hungary's art scene's drive toward abstraction to reflect on the complex social conditions of the country, from the 1960s to the present-day.

In a refreshing and playful way this visual poem investigates freedom and circles around Freud's flight from Vienna to London in 1939.

In a refreshing and playful way this visual poem investigates freedom and circles around Freud's flight from Vienna to London in 1939.

Anthology of essays written alongside the exhibitions at the Wattis Institute between 2014 and 2019. Celebrating the wide range of voices and forms of curatorial writing, this volume is a unique contribution to the study of art criticism, curation, and the history of exhibitions.

Publication documenting the award-winning web series Revisiting Genesis by Oreet Ashery. This documentary fiction on mourning in the digital age explores complex issues such as gender and death, digital reincarnation, and women artists.

First monographic catalogue dedicated to multimedia artist Thao Nguyen Phan, whose recent video and visual works explore the agricultural, political, and social issues in rural Vietnam.

This publication brings together a selection of family photos taken between the 1930s and 1950s by amateur photographer Anne-Marie von Wolff. A fascinating, powerful work, brought to light by her great-grandniece, artist Mimi von Moos.

Full transcript of Mekas's Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR: a five-hour-long film made up of footage from US television newscasts covering the independence of Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket, each highlighting different practices and transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication.

Three multidisciplinary essays—from cultural anthropology to photography analysis—based on visual archives documenting the visit of writer, painter and politician Carlo Levi to an Albanian community in Southern Italy (second volume in the series “Archivi della Basilicata”).

First monograph.

This catalogue investigates the genealogy of the relationship between art and ecology in Europe, introducing a series of pioneering research conducted on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s.

A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture and urban planning through and beyond Henri Lefebvre's concept of Rhythmanalysis.

Conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters this book captures thoughts and responses of writers, poets, and artists to the curators' proposition to think the practice of photography in Africa and its diaspora through the notion of the “stream of consciousness.”

First monograph of the French artist who makes the changing states of the body the territory of her research, between desires and suffering.

Monograph.

First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins (limited edition, signed, including an original and unique artwork).

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.

The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.

Richard Tuttle and color.

Vast cross-composition by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Benjamin Bondonneau created for the Bordeaux ensemble le Un. A wild thought towards Claude Lévi-Strauss and his notion of "bricolage".

The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram.

Moving across personal anecdotes, moments in history, cultural memory, and scientific did-you-knows, Mario Santanilla's Still Life takes the reader on a virtual journey across a range of sights and sites.

Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography.

A glimpse into the genesis of Harun Farocki's film IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR (1988), which evolved from the unrealized project "On the History of Labor" between 1985 and 1988.

Nadira Husain's comprehensive work is brought together in this monograph for the first time in its breadth and complexity and shows over 100 works from the past six years.

The magical drawings and works of Samantha Davies and Matthew Bower of the noise-rock band Skullflower, which invoke and evoke the Egyptian god Set.

An oral performance (concept, texts and voice by Karl Holmqvist).

The piece "Blue" is based on a writing cycle focusing on the idea of biography, fiction, fulfilled and unfulfilled dreams. Like the piece "L'appétence", which was created in collaboration with a group of ASMR artists, it was developed for an audio installation. Anne Le Troter then transformed it into a version for this record.

Klima #2 focuses on the global ecological crisis, the impact of human activity on its environment and the interdependence between the entities that make up the Earth.

The best of 2019.

A series of illustrations depicting automobiles set in a chaotic post-apocalyptic world, inspired by the dystopian aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s.

This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the first Yugoslavian abstract art group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.

This monographic volume dedicated to the work of Pedro Barateiro spans a period that dates back to 2008 and features extensive visual and written material of key projects presented in solo exhibitions, as well as other relevant installations, videos and performances.

An overview of video art production from the Pearl River Delta in China: having emerged in the mid-1980s, this vital yet under-represented art scene is thoroughly documented in this richly illustrated catalogue (460 ill.) which features works by nearly sixty artists (catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at Times Art Center Berlin).

Stemming from the namesake exhibition program at Cooper Gallery, Of Other Spaces draws on women artists' activism from the 1970s to the present day to build a reflection on feminist thinking as a provocative and cogent mode of creative and critical inquiry.