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As accessibility and understanding of electronic media grow, its use by artists has become both widespread and increasingly instrumental in the latest developments in contemporary art. As part of the THEMES AND MOVEMENTS series, “Art and Electronic Media” by Phaidon Publications is intended for uninitiated readers and scholars alike. Divided …
Isamu Noguchi is one of the 20th Century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors, he did not belong to any particular movement, …
Raised in Albania, Anri Sala relocated to Paris, and then moved to Berlin in 2003. In a relatively short time, he developed …
Founded in October 2000 and published 10 times annually, The Brooklyn Rail provides an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout …
During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and …
From 18/6-3/7/16, “The Floating Piers” at Lake Iseo in Italy, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude allowed 1.2 million people to walk on water. …
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is a maestro of the slight yet seductive, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard …
The Artist Project is an online series of The Metropolitan Museum of Art which gave artists an opportunity to respond to its …
One of the most important living sculptors and a legendary figure associated with the revolutionary 1960s Arte Povera movement, Giuseppe Penone has …
The catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by Lucio Fontana by SKIRA, is one the most complete, cutting edge publications on …
Unlike an art book, catalog or monograph that tend to showcase artworks created in another medium, the term “artists’ books” refers to …
The book “Yayoi Kusama – Revised and Expanded Edition” by Phaidon Publications is an updated and lengthier version of the one printed …
Ed Atkins’ work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present-day, and an absurd prophecy of things to come. …
Stefano Benazzo, photographer, sculptor and model ship maker, presents his passion for wreckages in the book “Wrecks” by SKIRA Editore. With 144 …
Nicholas Mirzoeff’s awaited free e-book “The Appearance of Black Lives Matter” by [NAME] Publications. Mirzoeff’s book examines the transformation of visual culture …
By creating photographs that transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, Edward Weston helped bring the medium out of the …
Daido Moriyama was born in 1938 in Osaka, where he studied photography before moving to Tokyo in 1961. There, having worked as …
Nomadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing …
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e …
In “Fullmoon” by Taschen Publications, the conceptual meets the poetic, in more than 260 photographs, Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, …
The special two-volume edition ”100 Αrtists Who Epitomize The Contemporary Art Scene” by Taschen Publications features 100 of the artists from TASCHEN’s …
There is widespread agreement that art is “very important”, but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art …
In “LAB – Building a Home for Scientists” Mark C. Fishman describes how to build labs as homes for scientists, to accommodate …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the 1970s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
