Contemporary art

The call is clear: Museums must change. Amid an ongoing global pandemic and growing demands for decolonization, racial justice, and economic parity, culture needs new tools for structural transformation. In the first of two special issues focusing on this urgent topic, Artforum has invited some of our leading theorists, curators, artists, and museum directors to consider how art institutions might evolve.

Interviews with Addie Wagenknecht, Antonia Hernández, Elisa Giardina Papa, Finn Brunton, Mario Santamaría, Sung Tieu; articles: Muzak that listens, Just Say No...

Bastien Aubry's sculptures.

Artistic production as a tool of political and diplomatic influence during the Cold War.

Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.

This catalogue brings together a series of contributions taking as inspiration Polys Peslikas's painting at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, in 2017.

The Polish artist's memorial archive traces a history of homosexuality and queer culture in Eastern Europe and opens up possibilities for the future.

A poetic and scientific meditation on the artist's iconic cinematic installation exploring post-human mythologies, future archaeology, and the invisible structures that enfold us, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.

Thinkers revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our bodies.

The female nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).

The male nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).

Catalogue of a virtual exhibition of works by contemporary artists in response to the famous Neapolitan love song.

A series of drawings, sculpture, and a new film, in which the artist explores the ideas of transformation and metamorphosis.

Retrospective monograph, aiming to merge the artist's multifaceted output, playfully encouraging imagination and changes in perspective.

New monograph.

The new collection of drawings by the Portuguese artist.

A series of visual documents and theoretical inquires around the work rs548049170_1_69869_TT, a translation of artist Emilio Vavarella's genetic code into a fabric, using the 19th century Jacquard loom.

First comprehensive monograph.

Swiss photographer Christian Lutz documents right-wing populist people, movements and hot spots all over Europe.

Change Agents is the seventeenth print issue of PARIS LA magazine. The special 300-page edition features a portfolio of work by fifty contemporary artists whose practices reflect our current times as they move the culture forward. Plus: a collection of conversations, visual essays, and texts.

Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives.

The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Tom Bishop traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Tom Bishop traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.

Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.

A short essay on the concepts of "latent images" and "latency" based on the philosophy and history of the work of French artist Aurélie Pétrel.

After the first two issues Mineral Pornography and Vegetal Trauma, the 3rd issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins.

Can we recognize a book by its silhouette? (an artist's book about artists' books).

The first complete inventory of Hubert Renard's work, between 1969 and 1998, includes all finished works, paintings, sculptures, installations, unique or multiple pieces.

An uncanny electroacoustic composition that incorporates field recordings, synthesis, and acoustic sources, among Carlos Casas's most ambitious and accomplished musical endeavors to date.

Twenty-two drawings made during four months by the Mexican artist from his own observations of the evolution of a forest landscape written on a single day.

The first volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against that reports on active research engaged within the artistic professions and institutions since 2017. Its aim is to question the underlying neoliberal logics in the contemporary art world, by orienting its object of study towards the struggles that impact it.

The tenth issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts, with & about Sara de Chiara, Moyra Davey, Jana Euler, Sylvie Fanchon, Jim Fletcher, Alexander García Düttmann, Jeanne Graff, Martin Laborde, Liz Magor, Nick Mauss, Edith Schloss, Albert Serra, Pierre Thévenin, Emily Wardill...

A metaphysical poem divided into 21 chapters inspired by a series of researches performed among Iran, Armenia, and Ethiopia.

Created by the author-poet Frédéric Forte, the "Questions obliques" cards, with their three levels of difficulty, question the visitor of an exhibition on his perception of an artwork.

The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.

The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.

A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.

Marie Bauthias' poetic collages.

A study of representations of HIV and AIDS in American and European art, that opens up a vast political, economic and social history of two decades fatally haunted by the catastrophe.

The fiscal cliff according to Erlend Peder Kvam.

Tal R's collages from his eclectic collection of images and objects (artist's book).

Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.

The catalogue raisonné of the Frac Île-de-France Collection.

Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.

Artist's book / monograph.

Mark McKnight, Estelle Hoy, Mitch Speed, Cudelice Brazelton IV, He Xiangyu, Gianluca Concialdi, Samuel Hindolo, Phung-Tien Phan, Trulee Hall, Alex Ayed, Tiffany Sia, Erna Rosenstein, Laura Grisi, Duan Jianyu, Miho Dohi, Stella Zhong, Yalda Afsah, book reviews by Taylor Le Melle...

An artistic and scholarly inquiry into the  work of Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700–after 1753), an outstanding philosopher of the early eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the first African to earn a doctorate in a European university.