The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s new anthology surveys an array of structurally innovative shows in the exhibition makers’ own words.
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On World Book Day, Pick Up Black Cube’s Survey on Site-specific Art Projects
Support a small visual arts nonprofit by purchasing this book, which highlights 35 artworks in spaces like mining towns, modernist chapels, and cars.
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Part Memoir and Part History, How Photography Became Contemporary Art Chronicles an Artistic Revolution
Blake Gopnik will join author Andy Grundberg to discuss his new book from Yale University Press in a virtual launch celebration hosted by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery on April 1.
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A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.
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Black Cube, a Nomadic Art Museum, Releases Limited-edition Hardcover Monograph
The book surveys site-specific art projects produced by Black Cube in unusual places like abandoned bus terminals, gold mining towns, iconic modernist chapels, and even cars.
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On Site: 50 Years of Public Art of the University of Houston System Highlights 40 of the Collection’s Most Notable Works
This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of Public Art of the University of Houston System and features public artworks by artists including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Margo Sawyer, Alyson Shotz, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.
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Elizabeth Otto Unlocks History in Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics
Her recent book offers an investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus’s signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.
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Tate Launches Its New Online Research Publication Modern American Art at Tate 1945-1980
This publication is devoted to post-war American art in Tate’s collection, revealing the richness and complexity of the museum’s involvement with art from the United States during this period.
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Art, Architecture, and Philosophy in Aesthetics Equals Politics Edited by Mark Foster Gage
This book looks at how aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.
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Exploring the Cultural and Philosophical History of Neon in Luis De Miranda’s Being and Neonness
The book looks at a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.
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Plastic Capitalism by Amanda Boetzkes Examines Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste
The book links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking.
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An Autobiography in Pictures, Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003
The book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by the artist.