Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.\nEverything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space.\nFeaturing Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Swoon, Judy Chicago, Black Quantum Futurism Collective, Vivienne Westwood, Cauleen Smith, Marina Abramovic, Karrabing Film Collective, and many more.

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Penguin Uk

Gerhard Richter - Text: Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961-2007: Writings and Interviews, 1961-2007

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Pipilotti Rist is among the world's best-known artists working with video. Her multi-screen installations have a dream-like quality as, for example, a beautiful young woman (the artist herself) cavorts in fantastic seascapes or surreal jungles. This monograph explores the artist and her work. It features: a discussion of Rist's work in relation to notions of Utopia; an examination of Rist's innovation in video technology in the creation of a new female image; an exploration of the psychoanalytical implications of one video work, Absolutions (Pipilotti's Mistakes) (1988); Artist's Choice, for which the artist has selected two selections from the poet Anne Sexton and novelist Richard Brautigan; and Artist's Writings - Rist's descriptions of her dreams, highly influential in the realization of her imagery, are set alongside a homage to video pioneer Nam June Paik.

Pipilotti Rist (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Peggy Phelan

Elisabeth Bronfen

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in China's burgeoning art scene. Often working with ancient materials - beams from destroyed temples, Han dynasty urns - Ai Weiwei (b.1957) creates ingenious sculptures that break new artistic ground while commenting on the rapid transformation of contemporary China. Ai Weiwei's work is consistently innovative and unmistakably original, ranging from his sculptures and photographs to his numerous architectural commissions, and recalls the work of his artistic forebears Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol. A towering figure whose influence can be seen in the multiplicity of his roles: not just an artist, designer and architect, but also curator, publisher, web blogger and cultural compass for an entire generation of Beijing artists.

Ai Weiwei (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Karen Smith

Bernard Fibicher

Ai, Weiwei

Edited by Paul O'Neill, this sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing edited features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen &amp; Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech &amp; Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta &amp; Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson and Mick Wilson. Put together by the curator-critic Paul O'Neill, Curating Subjects, documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present and speculative futures and, instead of following the convention of curators writing about themselves, invites the authors to provide a text about the curatorial work of others. The result is an eclectic volume of accessible responses that provides a pluralistic and dynamic curatorial discourse where critical essays, theoretical explorations, propositions, historical overviews, interviews, exhibition critiques and fictional accounts sit side by side. Essential reading for students and professionals alike.

Curating Subjects

Jens Hoffmann

Irene Calderoni

Robert Nickas

Liam Gillick

Clémentine Deliss

Carlos Basualdo

Julie Ault

Lars Bang Larsen

Open Editions/Occasional Table

Afterzine is a biannual arts and culture zine, curated by Hamish Robertson, featuring a collection of invited works upon dictated themes. What began as a single-section issue with invited interpretations of coincidence by chance evolved into an exploration of the city of Los Angeles a place I had mistakenly assumed to be lacking in happy accidents. Hamish Robertson Issue 2 includes interviews with Miranda July, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mike Mills, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, and Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. Singer-songwriter and actress Zooey Deschanel describes her favorite morning records with illustrations by Natalia Stuyk. Poetry by Emma Straub. Fiction by The Paris Review s Sadie Stein, essays by Christina Gregory, Diane Birch, Thessaly La Force, and Christy Harrison. Plus, LA-based friends of Afterzine contribute their coincidental guides to Los Angeles.

Afterzine, Issue 2

Mike Mills

Miranda July

Sophia Rossi

Hamish Robertson

Andi Teran

Zooey Deschanel

Ashley Avignone

E. A. Hanks

Laura Havlin

Catherine Ireton

Diane Birch

Kitty

Daisy & Lewis

Thessaly La Force

Pamela Ribon

Emma-Straub

Brown Griffin, LLC

Hans Ulrich Obrist met the Martinique-born philosopher, poet, and revolutionary Édouard Glissant in the mid-nineties; the encounter influenced the direction of Obrist's work for years to come. As one of today's most prolific producers of culture, Obrist has left an indelible mark and Glissant, in part, through him. Throughout 2021, during the pandemic and ten years after Glissant's death, Obrist has edited, reworked, and arranged their conversations in their entirety for the first time. THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS is the result: a book designed to introduce the most important philosopher of the 21st Century to a broad, public audience - a ready-to-hand tool for building an interdependent Earth.

Archipelago

Politics & Social Sciences

Édouard Glissant

Philosophy

isolarii

Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving 
Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister has created a book that looks at the state of the world today, illuminating, through collected data, how far we’ve come, and encouraging us to think about where we can go from here. Statistics are vividly brought to life, as numbers are transformed into graphs, inlaid into nineteenth-century paintings, embroidered canvases, lenticular prints, and hand-painted water glasses. The book includes a foreword from psychologist and leading authority on language and the mind, Steven Pinker; a featured essay by graphic designer and historian Steven Heller; and a conversation between Sagmeister and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine Galleries in London and will appeal to all visually minded readers, providing a positive reaction to the tumultuous news cycle of recent years. Published in softcover with flaps Now is Better is contained within a die-cut slipcase and accompanied by a lenticular print designed by Sagmeister. Now is Better is an intriguing and thoughtful visual meditation on our daily lives.

Now is Better

STEVEN PINKER

Sagmeister, Stefan

STEVEN HELLER

stefan-sagmeister

Graphic Design

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005 Designed by Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto De Moura with Cecil Balmond - Arup

Cecil Balmond

Stefano Boeri

Edwin, Heathcote

Julia Peyton-Jones

Serpentine Gallery

William T. Williams: Recent Paintings

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

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