Describing "The Bird's Nest," the "intoxicatingly" beautiful stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Chinese Conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, The New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote, "The crisscrossing columns create a Piranesian world of dark corners and odd leftover spaces--an effect that intensifies as you ascend through the structure. Light filters through the translucent roof panels, and a network of drainpipes suspended from the roof adds a tough, utilitarian feel. The feverish play of light and shadows is reminiscent of the set for a German Expressionist film. From your seat, you gaze out at the surrounding skyline, where rows of generic housing towers seem to extend to eternity." This large-format, two-volume set features one book on the construction of the stadium from 2005 to 2008, and another that presents The 24 Hour Series, a sequence of photographs taken of the stadium by Ai Weiwei once an hour for one day and night. Also featured are the major installation created by the artist and architects for the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture and related works produced for an exhibition in London in the autumn of 2008.

Ai Weiwei: Beijing, Venice, London, Herzog & de Meuron

Sports & Outdoors

Merewether, Charles

Miscellaneous

Walther Konig

Taking readers on an unpredictable journey, the book offers a subjective view of the baroque palace and its formal gardens. Photographs of the artworks, taken by Anders Sune Berg, converse with images of the site shot by the artist himself. A special series of abstract drawings by Eliasson, created for the book, react to instructions written by Louis XIV on how to view the gardens of Versailles. The book invites readers to drift through the palace, gardens, and exhibition, at night and during the day, to explore the rich other side of Versailles.

ELIASSON: VERSAILLES

Catherine Pégard & Olafur Eliasson Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Alfred Paquement

The sleek, minimalist designs of a residential Swiss architectural firm 
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Leopold Banchini Architects is exploring the frontiers of space shaping through residential projects across Europe to Bahrain, Australia and beyond. Deeply rooted in architectural history, the firm’s practice is concerned with contemporary popular cultures as well as vernacular traditions and crafts.

Leopoldo Banchini (2g, 85)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

A political history of the fabled institution and its intersections with feminist representation in art 
The first women students to attend Yale University were members of its School of Art, who were present upon the school’s inauguration in 1869. Despite this auspicious start, 121 years passed before the School of Art awarded tenure to a woman professor, and 147 years before welcoming its first woman dean. Assembled from hundreds of hours of interviews with notable women and nonbinary graduates, History of an Art School presents the first history of a fabled if frequently misunderstood institution. Eminent feminist thinkers Marta Kuzma, Linda Nochlin and Angela Davis also weigh in on the school’s legacy. 
The voices of 50 years of women graduates complicate an already complicated legacy, revealing the life of an art school careening into the 21st century, speaking plainly to the long and still ongoing struggle for feminist integration and representation in the arts. This sweeping narrative of the education of a continuum of women artists and designers traces its way through the incendiary politics of the radical ’60s, the formation of cultural studies, identity politics and intersectionality in the ’70s, the AIDS crisis, the culture wars and the neoliberal escalation of the ’80s, through to our fully globalized, hyper-capitalized present.

Yale: History of an Art School

Kuzma, Marta

Study & Teaching

Faith Ringgold (Revised ed) /anglais

BLANCHFLOWER M/GRABO

Individual Artists

Pamela Rosenkranz House of Meme /anglais/allemand

Unknown, Author

Katharina Grosse/Helen Russel Brown: Plant-based Cuisine For a Painter's Studio /franCais/anglais

GROSSE KATHARINA

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Berl-Berl /anglais/allemand

ENDERBY EMMA

Leading theorists from Silvia Federici to Eva Illouz address the pandemic's intensification of neoliberal alienation The success of "social distancing" as a strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic resonates acutely with neoliberalism's destruction of the very notion of society itself. This was most famously expressed by Margaret Thatcher's dictum "there is no society," which supplies the title of this anthology--with a question mark added. How can we deal with the paradoxical mix of solitude and common experience that the pandemic entails? How can culture and critical discourse even continue when public space has been shut down upon the advice of epidemiologists? Such are the questions tackled by the authors of this anthology--some of today's leading theorists of capitalist affect and experience. Contributors include: Fahim Amir, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Nika Dubrovsky, Silvia Federici, Srecko Horvat, Eva Illouz, Achille Mbembe & Milo Rau, Robert Pfaller, Renata Salecl, Natascha Strobl and Ece Temelkuran.

There Is No Society?: Individuals and Community in Pandemic Times

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Rimini Protokoll /anglais

Computers & Technology

SCHIPPER IMANUEL

Programming

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