This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.

This collective study examines the influence of Joseph Beuys's concept of social sculpture in the evolution of artistic practices from the 1970s to the present day.

Cable cuts, energetics, and gunk: moving back and forth between a group of core subjects, Reflexologies converts the past five years of Nina Canell's sculptural work into a 384-page book.

Jolly Rogers is a collection of Peter Wächtler's latest short texts, written in preparation of his two solo exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall and Kunsthalle Zürich (both 2019), and combined with a nearly complete collection of the artist's drawings and prints from recent years.

This October in Artforum Lauren O'Neill-Butler on the art of Agnes Denes, Barry Schwabsky on Jean Dubuffet, and Jace Clayton on Christian Marclay. Plus, 4 artists and critics consider the legacy of Douglas Crimp, Amy Taubin on Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, exhibition reviews from Paris, Zurich, Basel, Vilnius, and much more. 

Catalogue.

This catalog accompanies Zineb Sedira's exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, covering a period from 1998 to the present, and mediums as diverse as video, film, installation and photography.

A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

The testamentary work of Jacques Sivan: a graphic poem on the body and its reincarnation through the language.

An electroacoustic piece based on a recording of a Curling match, which reveals its unsuspected dramatic tension...

A collection of sound situations possible on a Serge analog modular synthesizer system.

A series of connections between percussion and electronics.

A collection of poetic texts that experiments different forms of contemporary poetry: sound poetry, lists, logorrhoea, glossolalia, ready-made, micro-narrations... Most of these texts have been read in public in the framework of literature festivals or performances.

The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.

The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.

First monograph.

The contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism.

An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work.

The new edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 iconic book.

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva photographed the streets of Tehran and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. The image-based work is part of a multilayered narrative that encounters the words of architect, researcher and educator Hamed Khosravi.

A "lyrical drama about the woman who invented chicory stockings": the libretto of a troubadour operetta for narrators, children's choirs, accordion, dessert and Vosges spruce.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

44 international artists deliver their vision of the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Stafan Kalmár and Lia Gangitano on Lutz Bacher; Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin; Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper; Institute of Queer Ecology; 40 Fall 2019 exhibitions previews; Simmon Denny; Anthony Byrt; Sam McKinniss; Zarina; Diébédo Francis Kéré...

A card game for young museum visitors imagined by cartoonist Andreas Kündig and the MAMCO.

A experimental journey looking back over the work of interlocution between individuals based on artworks with a specific link to certain places.

Over the past decade, 21 poets have come to La Kunsthalle Mulhouse to immerse themselves in the art and spend time within the space composing original texts reflecting on their experiences and vision of the work surrounding them. These writings are now collected in this volume.

A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.

Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter and Bettina Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. The book collects their photographs along with texts by Bettina Clahsen and Swiss art historian and journalist Joerg Scheller.

A retrospective of the work of one of the first artist-run spaces in Paris, offering an overall reflection on the emerging conditions of independent and collective spaces, and the way they have impacted the institutional and art scene.

Images of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong by Italian photographer Lele Saveri.

This publication reflects upon the exhibition of Stefan Brüggemann's nihilist statements read, sung, and screamed by Punk icon Iggy Pop, sculpting aurally the spaces of a seemingly empty gallery covered in densely painted black paneling paintings.

Sylvie Auvray's first publication, between an artist's book and a monograph.

Art in the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires; in the ruins of the Soviet industrial dream in Georgia; the young Martinique artistic scene; Milo Rau and the NTGent theater; La Ribot; Mati Diop; Camille Blatrix; Clément Cogitore; Fanny Taillandier; Baptiste Lanaspeze and Éditions Wildproject...

Pati Hill, Greer Lankton, Lil Picard, Bern Porter, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, Alexandre Estrela, Wade Guyton, Seth Price & Kelley Walker, Merlin James, Carlo Pittore, Anne Turyn, Martin Wong...

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

New monograph (works from 2011 to 2019).

The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.

The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar 2020 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a back-to-back of images made in collaboration between the three artists. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first ToiletMartin PaperParr magazine, this calendar presents a selection of the best images conceived by the three artists.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound.

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains an unique signed collage.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, is a revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by the electroacoustic music pioneer.

For its 50th release, Black Truffle presents the 9th album from one of the label's core ensembles, the power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi.

Special 30th anniversary issue, including an audio CD.