Captain Masterson, a retired war veteran, is fed up with his current employer. He decides that he wants to steal their best starship and plunder the large corporation's other facilities.

Hoplite Renegades

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Darling, Michael

Science Fiction

Infinity Publishing

“The spirit of Schindler warms the works of all of us who were touched by his life.”
—Frank O. Gehry
 “He is the most important architect in California of his day and deserves highly the attention given to him at last by his hometown, Vienna.”
—Philip Johnson
 With such masterworks as the Schindler-Chace House and the Lovell Beach House in California, the Vienna-born modernist R. M. Schindler (1887–1953) is recognized as one of the most innovative architects of the 20th century. Nearly 50 years after his death, admiration for his breathtakingly original houses and apartment buildings is at an all-time peak. Containing many never-published drawings and photographs and spanning Schindler’s early years in Vienna, his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, and his bold contributions to West Coast modernism, this book—which accompanies the first major Schindler retrospective—offers the most comprehensive view of his genius to date.

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler

History

Smith, Elizabeth A.T.

Americas

Harry N. Abrams

A crafty master craftsman with the heart of a conceptualist, Roy McMakin makes furniture that pokes fun at itself and renovates historic houses to challenge archetypes. A sculptor, conceptual artist, and furniture maker, his clients have ranged from Lisa Eisner and Tommy Lee Jones to the Getty Museum's Los Angeles offices. This first monograph on the artist, published on the occasion of the first museum exhibition of his work, traces how his creations have evolved over the years, from the nonfunctional yet allusive sculptural works of the early 1980s, moving through the production furniture made for his Los Angeles-based company, Domestic Furniture Co., and culminating in the “hillbilly modernist” sensibility of his present pieces. It considers his approach to materials, which ranges from the art-like, constructivist plywood furniture of his “classic” domestic period to the exotic hardwoods he currently employs. An interesting hybrid of artist and designer, McMakin makes magic, and it's all there behind A Door Meant as Adornment.

Roy Mcmakin: A Door Meant as Adornment

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

This is an in-depth examination of the work of seven international emerging artists who have embraced a novel and challenging approach to painting. By employing a varied mix of painterly styles, modes, sources and materials, as well as working against a single recognizable "hand," the featured artists have each crafted a complex and rich practice that offers innumerable avenues for exploration and growth. The artists Kai Althoff, Gillian Carnegie, Mark Grotjahn, Lucy McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Ivan Morley and Anselm Reyle are guided by a variety of individual motivations and conceptual frameworks rather than the outward appearances of their canvases. Th book includes an essay by MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling.

Painting In Tongues

History & Criticism

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78 is an international historical survey of the "attacks" that painting endured (and survived) in the years following World War II. For the artists discussed here, coming after Abstract Expressionism, painting had arrived at an impasse, and they devised ways to overcome its existing conventions. This phenomenon occurred all over the world, and Target Practice documents how and why artists felt compelled to shoot, rip, tear, burn, erase, nail, unzip and deconstruct painting in order to usher in new ways of thinking about their art. It shows that such ideas were of concern to well-known artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, and also introduces lesser-known peers who were making equally challenging work.

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78

Bader, Graham

Yoshitake, Mika

Mangini, Elizabeth

Seattle Art Museum

The Language of Less (Then and Now) accompanies an exhibition at MCA Chicago inspired by the museum’s rich holdings of Minimalist and post-Minimalist art of the 60s and 70s. These are complemented by works from a younger generation of artists, such as Leonor Antunes, Carole Bove, Jason Dodge, Gedi Sibony and Oscar Tuazon.

The Language of Less, Then and Now (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Exhibition Catalogues)

Raskin, David

Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Gathering a wide range of art from around the world, Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity explores the enduring human desire to build farther and farther into the sky. Examined here are themes such as verticality, personification, urban critique, improvisation and the vulnerability of landmark buildings. Skyscraper features the work of about 50 artists, including Francis Alÿs, Ziad Antar, Fikret Atay, Erica Bohm, Jennifer Bolande, Marie Bovo, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Cyprien Gaillard, Jakob Kolding, Vera Lutter, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Thomas Ruff, Andy Warhol, Peter Wegner, Wesley Willis, Catherine Yass, Yin Xiuzhen and Shizuka Yokomizo. Skyscraper also features documentation of artist Monika Sosnowska’s process of creating new work commissioned for the exhibition this catalogue accompanies.

Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity

Hatherley, Owen

Szupinska, Joanna

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The inspiration for this book began at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art with Paul Schimmel's seminal 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter, which introduced to the world the wide-ranging, dissident influence of Los Angeles art. Upon seeing that show, Miami's Rubell family began to collect important L.A. artists of the 1980s and 90s. Recently, the Rubells added a new group of Los Angeles artists to their storied collection. This volume examines juxtapositions and interrelationships between the two generations, with work by Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Brian Calvin, Mark Grotjahn, Evan Holloway, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Paul McCarthy, Jason Meadows, Catherine Opie, Kaz Oshiro, Laura Owens, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Jim Shaw, Yutaka Sone and Ricky Swallow, among others.

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

Coetzee, Mark

Holte, Michael

Rubell Family Collection

Two Face is an exhibition by Ballroom Marfa artists-in-residence Aaron Curry (born 1972) and Thomas Houseago (born 1972). Based in Los Angeles, Curry and Houseago are sculptors who adopt a Janus-faced approach to form and process, simultaneously looking to the past and the future. Their Marfa exhibition is the culmination of a joint residency that nurtured the intense dialogue the artists have established.

Aaron Curry & Thomas Houseago: Two Face (BALLROOM MARFA)

Ballroom Marfa

How Soon Now catalogues additions to the collection of the Rubell Family as well as older works by artists such as John Baldessari, Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Matthew Day Jackson, Huan Yong Ping, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz.

How Soon Now

Subotnick, Ali

Taft, Catherine

Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi

Morales, René

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