This volume, Ordinary People, recovers the social art history of the long-dismissed genre of photorealism and demonstrates the continued relevance of photorealist strategies for artists working today. Spanning the 1960s to the present, this large-scale reexamination of the postwar art movement features the work of more than 40 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals….
This volume surveys three decades of Pacita Abad’s multifaceted practice. Published on the occasion of her first-ever retrospective, it includes new research and writing by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Matthew Villar Miranda, Victoria Sung and Xiaoyu Weng, an edited oral history about the artist’s life and work by Pio Abad and Victoria Sung,…
The synergy between art and science is an age-old tale; artists throughout time, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beeple, have incorporated newly discovered scientific theories and techniques into their practices. The PST ART project Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science explores a particularly fecund yet underexplored period in the history of art and science’s cross-fertilization….
Particulates is a new book of science fiction initiated by Rita McBride and edited by Nalo Hopkinson. The publication follows the spirit of McBride’s Ways series and features 16 texts that are inspired by her 2017–18 laser installation Particulates at Dia:Chelsea in New York. Drawing on her longstanding interest in speculative thinking, the artist saw…
Paul Cadmus entered the art scene in the 1930s with paintings of dream-like urban demi-mondes: roiling tableaux of beatniks, sailors, and prostitutes. Undergirding his work has always been the artist’s masterful draftsmanship, seen in hundreds of drawings of nude male models, chief among them his long-time lover and muse, Jon Anderson. Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings collects these…
A revised and expanded monograph of Los Angeles-based Paul McCarthy (b.1945), one of the most influential artists of his generation Interview by Kristine Stiles, Survey by Ralph Rugoff, Focus by Massimiliano Gioni, Update by Robert Storr, Artist s Writings by Paul McCarthy
This publication by Paul McCarthy (born 1945) is a new edition of Chocolate Factory, Paris , which has been expanded by 128 pages. It documents the artist s first major solo exhibition in France, illustrating both the concept of the exhibition as well as its reworking in response to an attack on McCarthy that occurred during the…
Paul Sietsema s work in film and painting addresses the objects and systems of cultural production, tracing the circuits of proliferation and consumption that allow these objects to be taken up into history. At the hour of tea is a collection of stills from his most recent 16 mm film of the same title. A filmic space…
The Chilean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presents Chilean artists Paz Errázuriz (born 1944) and Lotty Rosenfeld (born 1943), both recognized for their artistic and political work during the dictatorship. This book discusses Errázuriz’s black-and-white photography and Rosenfeld’s interventions in public spaces.
Clay and straw meet dolls and Legos in Wirz’s sculptures on threatened ecosystems The child of an agronomist and a biologist, Swiss Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz (born 1981) creates installations from organic materials and artifacts of the consumer world. With his combination of paradoxical elements, Wirz brings back the original familiarity that used to exist…
Penny Slinger is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work investigates the feminine, the magical and the erotic. While studying at Chelsea College of Art in the late 1960s, Slinger encountered Max Ernst’s Une semaine de bonté (1934), initiating an enduring involvement with both the Surrealist movement and the medium of collage. In her first publication, 50% The Visible…
Kosovan artist Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) creates sculptural installations relating to the Kosovo War of 1998-99 and attendant themes of displacement and home. This volume surveys his highly autobiographical works.
A long-overdue retrospective of Philip Guston’s influential work, from social realism to abstract expressionism to tragicomic, cartoony figuration Philip Guston—perhaps more than any other figure in recent memory—has given contemporary artists permission to break the rules and paint what, and how, they want. His nonlinear career, embrace of “high” and “low” sources, and constant aesthetic…
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the pre–World War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition reintroduces their work and…
The Painter—or what you might call a robot—improvises like an actor, generating unexpected narratives whilst nevertheless fulfilling a sort of choreography. Its creator, artist Piero Golia, directs and “speaks” unseen from under the stage, and remains more interested in the possibilities that the whole set may provide. In the same way, rather than a record,…
Published in conjunction with Pippa Garner’s (born 1942) first institutional exhibition in New York, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF features her previously unpublished writing, including personal accounts of her gender transition-as-performance, with texts by contemporaries and admirers including McKenzie Wark, Nayland Blake and Chip Lord. Featuring hundreds of never-before-published images of Garner’s drawings, garments, classified ads and…