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A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists – many underrecognized and overlooked – from the last 50 years Though the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the start of the gay rights movement, so much of art and culture has been ‘queer’ since the beginning of…
A collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist
At least since his spectacular exhibition in the Romanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Adrian Ghenie (*1977 in Baia Mare, Romania) has been known to the broad public as one of the most interesting and unconventional painters of his generation. His works-painted in oils that have been scratched, applied with a palette…
As an artists book, Aftershow engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry Renate Lorenz. Installation shots, research material, scripts, and film stills give an insight into the artists investigation of performance in film and their dense net of references to experimental film, the history of photography, sound, and underground (drag) performances. The book…
Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through these imaginary tableaus, she constructed…
Aladin Borioli (born 1988) creates a multimedia research project illuminating the history of Bannkörbe, or “charm baskets,” which served as a unique form of beekeeping technology popular in northern Germany between the 17th and early 20th centuries. Veronika Epple (Editor), Aladin Borioli (Artist), Bas Blaasse (Contributor) Spector Books Hardcover, 176 pages ISBN 9783959058049
In the paintings and sculptures of Los Angeles–based artist Alake Shilling (born 1993), cutesy characters and plush creatures travel through a saturated world where disco and Lisa Frank aesthetics collide, often in a grassy knoll or ocean swell. Indeed, Shilling derives much inspiration from her childhood obsession with Frank and the design style of after-school…
Warm Equations is a monograph that s not a monograph: a study of an unstable, mercurial subject. Taking the paintings of New York-based Alan Reid as a cypher, the book pivots around the artist s deferral of authorial closure, shifting the emphasis from his work to a multiplicity of voices and contributors. Rushing in from…
Alex lsrael’s (born 1982) series of Self-Portraits were developed through the evolution of a logo based on the artist s profile―an iconic representation of facial features that calls to mind the famous silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock―originally created for the video piece As It Lays, a beguiling and campy work of talk show–style interviews for which Israel cast himself…
Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. “One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by,” she explained, “right hot…
“For me, people come first,” Alice Neel (1900–1984) declared in 1950. “I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.” This ambitious publication surveys Neel’s nearly 70-year career through the lens of her radical humanism. Remarkable portraits of victims of the Great Depression, fellow residents of Spanish Harlem, leaders of…
The American artist Alison Knowles’ (born 1933) groundbreaking experiments―from painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation, sound works, poetry and artist’s books―have influenced art and artists for more than 50 years but remain relatively unknown among mainstream audiences. The first comprehensive volume on the artist, By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective presents more than 200 objects that span…
celebration of the work of women artists of color, this book explores the ways in which struggles for freedom and equality are deeply intertwined with shared feminist practices, art techniques and movements, and the notion of diaspora through the extraordinary collection of social activist and patron Eileen Harris Norton. Featuring work by Sonia Boyce, Maya…
Uniquely among his contemporaries, Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) has adapted the possibilities of drawing to make idea-based work in populist terms, by uniting his twin loves of illustration and literature. Ruppersberg s drawings, which range from depictions of books from his library and letters by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Ezra Pound to writing,…
Collector’s Paradise is Allen Ruppersberg’s unique reflection on the history of popular American music. The product of years of combing flea markets and yard sales in search of both the visual and recorded history of rock and roll, this book traces rock and roll back to the Minstrel days and American popular song post-Civil War,…
Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas (1891–1978) is known for her large abstract paintings filled with irregular patterns of bright colors. This insightful reassessment of Thomas’s life and work reveals her complex and deliberate artistic existence before,…
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