Contemporary art

The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.

An essay on art exhibition.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

New monograph.

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

How can we today situate the artist or, more broadly, the act of creation using artificial intelligence?

This February in Artforum poet Simone White and writer Ciarán Finlayson respond to the recent Pope.L exhibitions that spanned multiple institutions across New York. Plus, Joan Jonas, Ugo Rondinone, and others on the life and art of John Giorno (1936-2019), a special artist's project by Christine Sun Kim, Daniel Marcus on Charlotte Perriand, and exhibition reviews from Paris, Cologne, Milan, Tallinn, and more.

Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.

A legendary Parisian collection of minimalist and conceptual art, and its evocative installation in the home of collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville.

A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece.

A detailed analysis of Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculptures by Erik Verhargen, accompanied by a history of the piece by Thierry Davila.

A political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf region, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century (exhibition catalogue).

First monograph.

Every Force Evolves a Form by Alessandro Bava; Design, Reset: Studio Formafantasma in Conversation with Alessandro Rabottini; Clinical Cosmology: Tishan Hsu by Hera Chan; Oceanic Time-Lag: on Mati Diop's “Atlantics” by Dora Budor...

The first of a two-volume publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this theoretical essay aims to elucidate the pressing questions posed by the emergence of this new artistic medium with a number of key case studies and interviews.

The two volumes of the publication dedicated to the artist's novel (two-books set special offer).

This issue of Flash Art explores a sort of archeology of images, aiming to reflect on issues of appropriation and authenticity in their most contemporaneous sense, whereby any original or preexisting artwork, image, or product can be invested with a multiplicity of meanings.

Presented as a work-in-progress, this text on American artist Rindon Johnson's video practice offers a reflection on the widening creative possibilities in the multimodal digital landscape, while discussing the political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and critics.

A selection of erotic paintings by the American artist, produced between 1969 and 1971: an ecstatic and mystical celebration of the sexual act.

A selection of drawings by the New Zealand outsider artist: her work, recognized belatedly, provides a journey into a grotesque, sometimes somber universe, filled with animals, distorted human bodies, and cartoon characters.

This artist's book is the book-form of a work by Matt Mullican, "The Meaning of Things (who feels the most pain?)" (2014), con sisting of 676 collages and texts on sheets of standard printing paper.

The crucible of creation: portraits of New York artists in the intimate seclusion of their work spaces.

The large-format book celebrating the collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.

Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.

An investigation into sex work in the dance world; cops but artists; in Lebanon, the revolution without confession; the artistic project Fjord City, 2114; after nature, with Vinciane Despret; Romain Huët and the carnal experience of the riot; Diao Yinan, Chinese banditry in chiaroscuro...

This January in Artforum we invite critics and artists—from Tim Griffin and Amy Taubin to Ilya Lipkin and Kerry James Marshall—to take measure on the newly renovated MoMA. Plus, Hal Foster on the art of Rachel Harrison, Kate Sutton on Hana Miletić, and a special previews section with over 40 exhibitions worldwide; including Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern, Hilma af Klint at Moderna Museet, and more.

Spike's winter issue #62 – “The 2010s” – traces the rise and fall of trends like post-internet art and normcore, and bids farewell to older forms of identity politics that have since been replaced by activism, algorithms, social media, and other forces that transformed the cultural landscape of this decade of disquiet.

Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.

The relationships of art and pop music from the 1960s to the present.

Catalogue of the artist's exhibition in the Portuguese pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a sculpture project engaging the heritage of post-war Italy's architecture and Italian vernacular craftsmanship.

This catalogue presents the artist's Sail Paintings series—32 hybrid compositions reminiscent of a boat's sail. This monumental publication (30 x 40 cm) is designed as a graphic extension to the project.

This catalogue stems from two eponymous exhibitions examining Hungary's art scene's drive toward abstraction to reflect on the complex social conditions of the country, from the 1960s to the present-day.

In a refreshing and playful way this visual poem investigates freedom and circles around Freud's flight from Vienna to London in 1939.

In a refreshing and playful way this visual poem investigates freedom and circles around Freud's flight from Vienna to London in 1939.

First monograph devoted to the work of the French designer / scenographer, with a text by design historian Tony Côme, interviews, and an important iconography.

Anthology of essays written alongside the exhibitions at the Wattis Institute between 2014 and 2019. Celebrating the wide range of voices and forms of curatorial writing, this volume is a unique contribution to the study of art criticism, curation, and the history of exhibitions.

Publication documenting the award-winning web series Revisiting Genesis by Oreet Ashery. This documentary fiction on mourning in the digital age explores complex issues such as gender and death, digital reincarnation, and women artists.

First monographic catalogue dedicated to multimedia artist Thao Nguyen Phan, whose recent video and visual works explore the agricultural, political, and social issues in rural Vietnam.

This publication brings together a selection of family photos taken between the 1930s and 1950s by amateur photographer Anne-Marie von Wolff. A fascinating, powerful work, brought to light by her great-grandniece, artist Mimi von Moos.

A collection of 360 postcards of cities from all around the world, made with screenshots from 3D software Apple Maps and Google Earth.

Full transcript of Mekas's Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR: a five-hour-long film made up of footage from US television newscasts covering the independence of Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket, each highlighting different practices and transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication.

Three multidisciplinary essays—from cultural anthropology to photography analysis—based on visual archives documenting the visit of writer, painter and politician Carlo Levi to an Albanian community in Southern Italy (second volume in the series “Archivi della Basilicata”).

First monograph.

This catalogue investigates the genealogy of the relationship between art and ecology in Europe, introducing a series of pioneering research conducted on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s.

A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture and urban planning through and beyond Henri Lefebvre's concept of Rhythmanalysis.

Conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters this book captures thoughts and responses of writers, poets, and artists to the curators' proposition to think the practice of photography in Africa and its diaspora through the notion of the “stream of consciousness.”

First monograph of the French artist who makes the changing states of the body the territory of her research, between desires and suffering.