DID YOU KNOW ? Une légende locale raconte qu’en 1909 le peintre et sculpteur Amedeo Modigliani jeta plusieurs sculptures dans les eaux du canal de Livourne, sa ville natale. En 1984, la célébration des cent ans de la naissance…
“I’m proud you call us gangsters, nevertheless you are wrong. We are worse, we are situationists.” —Jacqueline de Jong, 1962
The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by Dutch artist Jacqueline…
Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft…
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music…
"Florine Stettheimer is my favourite artist." Andy Warhol
Stettheimer (1871-1944) was Modernism's great "outlier"—a highly original artist with a boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic that attracted such luminaries as…
In the context of the Cold War bipolarity, the African continent and the Arab world were contested territories for the strategic deployment of influence between the superpowers. Cultural diplomacy represented an important…
Writings is the first collection to widely survey Tony Conrad’ singular, prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes…
“Welcome to your queer life.
A life along a line, or several.
A life through writing, images and objects.
Life as a sticky, messy pile of narratives and emotions.
Life not as singular and…
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“I have been up to Maine; and then, come down.
Scenes compress to single details: dull leaves aming…
En 1900, lors de l’Exposition universelle de Paris, le célèbre sociologue et militant W. E. B. Du Bois présenta une série de données statistiques dans le but de promouvoir les progrès socio-économiques des Africains-Américains…
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities…
Eisenstein's adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital (1927–1928) is a phantom in a double sense: although never realized, it has nonetheless haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and writers to the…
This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this…
In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but…
Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—the author of the SCUM Manifesto—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to…
“I’ve had a substantial career based on really bad reviews of almost everything I’ve ever done. An early example: “Bad” Painting: “Unfortunately, most of it is really bad.” (unpublished lecture, 2003)
A…
Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins’ Old Food lurches from allegory to listicle, from lyric to menu, fetching up a plummeting, idiomatic and crabbed tableau from the…
Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both past and present. With her starting point the “fertility benefits” offered by Silicon Valley tech companies, Emre posits that such reproductive…
In exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable late-capitalism to run more smoothly by calling in with their votes, as is the case with…
Art critic Calvin Tomkins has called Albert York (1928–2009) “the most highly admired unknown artist in America.” Over the course of three decades, York’s small paintings of landscapes, flowers, cows, and figures have…
This publication documents a long-term, touring exhibition project on the critical reception of Hubert Fichte's ethnographic travel literature. This large-scale initiative brings forth a multi-faceted debate on colonial…
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“Evil [das Böse], as the opposite of “good” [des Guten]—pure immorality—is everywhere today, and somehow also nowhere. It is the “other” par excellence; something we ourselves never are, but by which…
The oldest urushi object is about 9,000 years old and was found in Hokkaido, Japan. Fast forward to the 21st Century and you will find Max Lamb travelling, on numerous occasions since 2013, to Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture,…
I am still alive, a parasitical magazine. Issue 25 edited by Kiyonori Muroga and Åbäke.
For this issue, originally published in IDEA 374, we went to interview Kenichi Samura, the graphic designer…
A transcription of an interview with James Ballard that was recorded in 1992 for FantaZone, an Italian cult horror/fantasy VHS magazine. The discussion is introduced by Sandro Moiso, the interviewer, and followed…
The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La…
The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra asserts that focusing on the escape of “the girl” from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and…
OMG! Primary Information brings back to life one more essential publication: this time, Art-Rite, the legendary New-York based magazine from the 1970s that made the connection between the gallery scene and the…
“In early 2018, I came back home with a book titled Flower Arranging, an illustrated home reference manual about floral decoration dated 1966. The book was printed in Holland, yet published almost simultaneously…
We’re a bit late in bringing in Paris this book, when its publisher, Badlands Unlimited, actually announces its closing *sob*. Whitewalling provides an insightful and complex historical context for the recent…
More Mulvey! By popular demand, following the French edition of Fetishism and Curiosity, we’re happy to present Laura Mulvey’s latest book to date, Afterimages. On Cinema, Women and Changing Times. It…
If you’ve never heard about Stewart Home’s 1995 Art Strike Bed, it’s a shame! and you should read this pamphlet to know everything about it & the art context(s) as well as the political issues it is addressing,…
Si ce texte personnel apporte une contribution précieuse à la réflexion sur l'enquête de terrain et la manière dont les savoirs s'y agencent, sa portée dépasse largement le cadre de l'ethnographie. Taussig y déploie en…
This publication marks the first-ever presentation outside of Argentina of the legendary work, La Menesunda, first envisioned by Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín in 1965. Over the past 60 years, Minujin (born 1943),…
Audimat propose une écriture sur la musique libérée des contraintes d‘actualité et des formats de la presse périodique. La revue veut rendre compte de la situation actuelle de la pop music, et l‘éclairer par son…
This fresh perspective on the German painting movement of the late '70s and early '80s explores the community of artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen, drawing on forgotten…
Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at…
Real-Time Realist is an experiment in the range of human affect through typography, visual art and contemporary writing. It stems from the type design practice of Jungmyung Lee, and is edited by Jungmyung Lee…
Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization…
Ads. reproduces 70 advertisement pages torn from magazines and in which artists posed. From Marina Abramovic to Aaron Young. From the 1940’s to the present. This collection of ads belong to the Museum of Mistakes, Brussels.
Matter lies like the skin, it moves between genres. HAND SMOOTHED BY COIN is a collection of works that combine and intertwine to form an accumulative portrait of objects moving between art and design. The book presents…
40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. Writt en by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, the book takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots…
This highly illustrated introduction to the work of the Chicago Imagists celebrates the grotesque surrealism, cartoon energy and vivid color of a group of innovative 1960s artists who thoroughly rejected art-world terms.
These…
Issue 5 of Rab-Rab includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and…
D'après [...] publié en octobre 2016 aux éditions NOUS, collection grmx. Réalisation sonore par Julien Brulé. Musique de club de Benamix. Dessin aux feutres de couleurs…
Artist Victor Boullet curates a series of fanzines entitled COMPANY. The title COMPANY is stolen from a Samuel Beckett book. Samuel Beckett talks about seeing his father out of the corner of his eye while walking, giving…
The third volume in Hato Press’s most delicious trilogy Cooking with Scorsese is finally out and available to order. An exploration of food on screen, through the eyes of directors from Ang Lee to Bob Giraldi. This volume…
NICE Magazine features the multiple perspectives of a young generation of working creatives in metropolitan areas from across Africa. This beautiful, new edition contains the stories, works and emerging voices of a creative…
On prétend que les catégories du vingtième siècle ne seraient plus adaptées pour comprendre le présent. Cet essai démontre au contraire que seul le vingtième siècle nous offre des instruments suffisamment tranchants pour…
“...It’s hard not to mourn the promise of the early Internet, not as a window into the lie that is our reality but the place where you can be anything you want. “2-15/f/ny” my friend would type into the white…
Finding it’s starting point (plus its dimensions and page count) within a 2001 Michael Krebber artist's book/catalogue from Kunstverein Braunschweig, Untitled #2 / KE is a two-part book that together, like much…
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The event…
Fétichisme et curiosité, une anthologie de textes publiée en anglais en 1996, s’intéresse au cinéma de Douglas Sirk, Ousmane Sembène, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles et David Lynch, ainsi qu’au travail des artistes…
Volume réunissant deux essais du théoricien et critique allemand, parus en anglais en 2008 et 2018, qui abordent la question du marché de l’art, de son explosion spéculative et de ce qui le relie aux évolutions…
Andre
Joseph, I think it's actually...
Beuys
You can't give name of the corrupt people.
(ANDRE looks frustrated)
À la croisée de plusieurs genres, ce roman-radiographie de l’Algérie contemporaine relève le pari de recréer le chaos de l’Algérie des années 1990 par l’expérimentation formelle : le texte est mots, ratures, photos, pages…
First published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape culture…
This issue is dedicated to 'Materializzazione del Linguaggio', a 1978 Venice Biennale exhibition curated by Mirella Bentivoglio. The exhibition comprised of work by over eighty women artists working in a huge range of…
This book gathers for the first time the early writings by Kathy Acker: early poems, tapuscrits, diary entries, correspondence—most of them previously unreleased! The book features several letters to Bernadette Mayer,…
Finally collected in a signature single standalone edition, Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne is a testament of temptation and transcendence: corrupt sellswords, vengeful sorceresses, and time-warping dissident priests…
At the end of Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture Fall 2018 show titled ‘Syntopia’, an otherworldly, bird-like creature ambled down the runway with intricately layered wings that undulated like a stingray’s fins underwater.…
The 2019/20 issue of The Serving Library Annual is entirely devoted to Bruno Munari. At its core, the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches and poems…
First published in 1996 and for a long time out-of-print. New expanded edition presenting almost sixty years of the Dutch master practice!
Androgynous angelic beings emerge from blinding white light. A commanding voice booms from an unknown source. The veil of everyday reality is lifted to reveal primordial worship rituals performed by beings both monstrous…
In the mid-80s, Connors took a partial break from music and focused instead on the art of haiku, for which he received the Lafcadio Hearn Award in 1987. With his wife Suzanne Langille he also co-wrote an article on blues…
Writers in Zimbabwe talk less to each other about their craft than perhaps they should. Some Writers Can Give Yuo Two Heartbeats is an eclectic and indispensable treasury of wisdom from Zimbabwe’s literary masters…
"Now that I am undying, the world is full of possibility. I could write a book in which nothing is left out, or write a book of undying litterature in which everything that is missing shows up as the shadow of its own…
“If we have no gender, we have no women. Lately, we like the idea of obsession. Straight men are obsessed with sex, gay men are obsessed with form, women are obsessed with themselves, the internet is an obsessive habit.…
Hamilton's artist book comprises a series of images collaged from personal photographs, found images and computer-based drawings as well as a short talk with her daughter.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where…
Hello there. So very happy to hold this new publication today.
Fade the Lure is a collection of poems and photographs created between 2014 and 2017, during Dena Yago’s experience working and living alongside…
Sa buche avait prédit
L'âpreté de la lutte
Elle marchait loin devant
Mais je sentais son souffle
Les chemins intenstins
De cette île légendaire
Brûlait
Most generous, profusive, beautiful and crazy artist's book by the loveliest magical presence in Portland, Oregon. This object contains 9 works written over the past decade, poetry and text written in the entirety of Morgan’s…
Seventh volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s “Private Book” project, covering the days from Feb. 15 to March 2, 1970, and comprising several entries about orgasms.
In Bure, a small French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region, French and German opponents of nuclear power have been campaigning for decades against the construction of a permanent disposal site for…
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Marcel never says the word "lesbian" to Albertine. He says "the kind of woman I object to."
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Albertine denies she knows any such women. Marcel assumes she is lying.
The Albertine Workout…
“Empire shops” were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously…
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned…
Monographie présentant une trentaine d'œuvres inédites réalisées spécifiquement pour un double projet curatorial, avec un essai, sous la forme d'une enquête, de Tristan Garcia. Publié à l'occasion des expositions de Wade…
In the book SAVE Ines Cox protagonizes the volatile and seemingly unimportant steps of the digital (working) process and reveals them as printed matter. The elements which appear in the book are the result of…
Cura. 31 is devoted to 22 women artists and features essays on Rebecca Ackroyd, Farah Al Qasimi, Bianca Bondi, Maja Čule, Nikita Gale, Ilana Harris-Babou, Jamila Johnson-Small, Valerie Keane, Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies…
For a “wild writing,” a boundaryless etching into the future unknown, a writing that is inherently frameless, it becomes all about extension – the self no longer a self but a vehicle, the writing a trajectory extending…
Jill Johnston—cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon—was renowned as a writer on dance, especially on the developments around Judson Dance and the 1960s downtown New York City scene, and later as the author…
Published by UNESCO in 1953, The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions is a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions. Aimed at museums and other public institutions, it formulates a “grammar” of how to exhibit, ranging…
The latest release by the excellent Visible Press is a collection of writings by artist and filmmaker Lis Rhodes! The book includes the influential essay, “Whose History?” alongside texts from works such as Light Reading,…
This wild book is an introduction to analog steganography, a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. It is an invisible ink colouring book, recipe book, puzzle book and artistic research book. This book also…
Top Ten: 1998–2008 is a new edition of the long-out-of-print publication by James Hoff from 2009.
In almost every issue since April 1998, Artforum has asked an individual from the art world to compile…
Continuing his ongoing work with geography, state secrecy, and military symbology, Trevor Paglen has selected coins, patches, models, and other objects from the archive of Peter Merlin—a historian, technical writer, and…
Publié à 20 exemplaires, La Sagesse des Nations est un Hentai sur les bulles duquel viennent se superposer des dialogues issus de la pièce de thêatre Le Balcon de Jean Genet (1956).
Originally published in the mid-1970s, Womens Work was a magazine that sought to highlight the overlooked work of female artists working at the cusp of the visual arts, music, and performance. The magazine was…
“Les sorties organisées par les Naturalistes en lutte les deuxièmes dimanches de chaque mois étaient ouvertes à tous. Venait qui voulait avec son savoir et ses compétences et les mettait en commun, les partageait. On venait…
In October 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Ross William Ulbricht was arrested at the Glen Park Public Branch Library in San Francisco, accused of being the “Dread Pirate Roberts” and mastermind of a dark net drug marketplace…
The secret history of the UK esoteric underground—aka the biography of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound—by Wire contributor and Volcanic Tongue co-founder, David Keenan. Revised & expanded edition.
Finally available, the critical edition of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s writings, from Jean Marie Straub’s film reviews in the 1950’s to the “Three messages to the 63rd Venice International Film Festival” in…
“For me this book is a bag... Like any single-use carrier bag – I disapprove. It shouldn’t exist, it contributes to pollution, it should be banned... And yet, in spite of the fact I know this book may be a waste product...…
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Lyn Hejinian’s unpublished prose poem which (in her better-known essay The Rejection of Closure) the author reads closely as model for various, open, equitable relations between language and things (such…
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Those beautiful pieces are each one of a kind, made with love in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, Occitanie. Come over to the shop in Paris, or ask us about shipping…
An history of net art through a selection of 100 works/artists from the early '80s up to the present days, accompanying the eponymous ongoing online exhibition curated…
Bilingual French/English monograph dedicated to the work of French graphic designer Frédéric Teschner.
Ouvrage monographique retraçant le travail du graphiste français Frédéric Teschner (1972-2016) à travers une…
This substantial archive offers an ideal point of entry into the work and reception of Los Angeles–based performance artist and writer Andrea Fraser (born 1965). The interview format provides particular insight into Fraser's…