American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors argu[...]
The catalogue features new works by Maurizio Cattelan and several of his large-scale pieces dating from 2003 to 2007. Considered within the context of the Menil's holdings - with a focus on postwar art - the book provides a rare opportunity to appreciate Cattelan's works against the backdrop of twen[...]
One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Publish[...]
Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. It showcases new artistic practices from around the world in a setting that is both historic and culturally exceptional. This volume brings together the artists and work featured in Prospect.[...]
In 1981 Jean-Michel Basquiat made the momentous transition from the street to the studio. He had attracted considerable attention with his "Times Square Show" the summer before, and reinforced that nascent notoriety with a wall of phenomenal works in Diego Cortez's "New York/New Wave" at P.S. 1, whi[...]