Contemporary art

This issue addresses the shiver and explores the affective dimension in the field of art. With: Aseman Sabet on Stendhal syndrome; poetic images and waking dreams in contemporary art; the aesthetic shudder, from Nietzsche to Castellucci; Anicka Yi; Myriam Lefkowitz; interview with Sophie Jodoin; the Venice Biennale and Manif d'art 8; reviews and selected publications…

Kim West, Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media, 1963-1977 / Yann Chateigné, 1977 / Richard Parry, London, London / Lotte Arndt on Enquête sur le/notre dehors by Alejandra Riera / Peter Fischli, The Hiking Trail Around the Airport / Liam Considine on “Thinking of readymades belong to everyone®” / Giovanna Zapperi on “Show Me Your Archive” / Oleg Frolov on Tobias Kaspar / Anke Dyes on Till Megerle / Christian Haye on Juliana Huxtable / Camilla Wills on On Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek / Jeanne Graff, Clifton Clifton.

This issue of Spike looks at the real as a fault-line of art and a utopian horizon of its agency. Welcome to the oasis of the real (featuring Francesco Vezzoli, Maria Hassabi, Asad Raza, Emily Jacir, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gabi Ngcobo, Tristan Garcia, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff…)!

Artforum looks at Russia and the Art of Revolution: A century after the Soviet uprising of October 1917, Matthew S. Witkovsky, Devin Fore, and Owen Hatherley look back—and forward—at the fate of radical culture, utopia, and politics; architect David Adjaye talks about design, culture, and society; Ina Blom on Ed Atkins and the science of weather simulation; and more.

Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, T. J. Demos critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations, trough a series of cases study taken from contemporary visual culture.

Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition inspired by the Oulipo's literary strategies and the notion of potentiality. Nine artists presented a series of artworks in a display that changed continually according to the choice of the spectator.

This publication presents the goals and objectives of the The School of Missing Studies—a collaborative and experimental platform study on urbanism in transition.

Second issue dedicated to the notion of risk in art, together with a booklet celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fountain, the iconic work by Duchamp. The magazine also features tributes to two recently deceased artists, Gusztav Metzger and Felipe Ehrenberg.

This catalogue brings together international artists and theorists to reflect upon conditions surrounding female artistic, theoretical and institutional practices and contemporary gender studies within the changing landscape of biopolitics affected by the digital economy and social change.

Mimicking the codes of fashion magazines, this artists' review gathers contributions reflecting on the aspects of memory and time in clothing.

Cura's new issue connects the different sections with one common thread: the machine as a possibility or as a threat. The magazine also extends its “Inside the Cover” section with three essays on this issue's cover artist, Max Hooper Schneider. Plus: Sam Lewitt on Michael Asher's 1991 exhibition at Le Consortium in Dijon ; interviews with John Bock, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Kenric McDowell, Bailey Scieszka ; David Horvitz in conversation with Margot Norton ; Nicolas Deshayes' sculptures ; Pakui Hardware ; Haroon Mirza's visual essay ; Bruno Zhu…

Interviews with Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Rana Hamadeh, Aria Dean, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Lin Ke, Yasunao Tone, Timothée Calame, Sara Deraedt; round-table on the relations between art, dance, and theater; Yann Chateigné's notes on time; Kathy Noble on institutional trauma; Jens Hoffmann, Candice Hopkins, Chus Martínez, and Ingo Niermann on issues related to cultural appropriation; Sofia Stevi by Andrew Berardini; conversation with Liz Craft and Stanya Kahn; the use of augmented reality in arts; round-table on performance studies; Hendrik Folkerts on monumentalization.

What defines cultures? How enduring are they over time? And where are the origins of the foundations of what we regard today as European culture? This catalogue examines questions that emerge as soon as the discussion turns to culture. It gathers works by Jonathas de Andrade, Lothar Baumgarten, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Clemens von Wedemeyer, and Aimée Zito Lema.

This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.

First artist's book: 25 poetic notes on love written on a memorandum.

Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.

A biological investigation of a Nordic man-made beach landscape through a series of cameraless photographic registrations of the site's flora, fauna, and particles.

Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991 brings together a collection of images from two of the most complex and undefinable metropolises on the face of the Earth, the social and urban form of which is ceaselessly reshaped by the minimal existence of millions of people in movement. Lombardelli's photographs are also cinematographic homages to the works of Wim Wenders and Yasujirō Ozu.

The Curious Mr. Pettena recounts various steps along a journey, through cities and wide open natural spaces, undertaken by the anarchitect Gianni Pettena at the start of the 1970s across the United States.

In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.

Etel Adnan, Dike Blair, Thomas Huber, Dorothy Iannone, Mathias Kiss, Tiziana La Melia, Stéphane Lecomte, Jan Melka, Mario Milizia, Francis Picabia, Vimala Pons, Laure Prouvost, Louise Sartor, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Alice Wietzel...

This publication documents a site-specific work by Giovanni Anselmo at the Carlo Scarpa space of the Querini Stampalia Foundation, in the framework of the Venice Biennale.The project takes the form of a route of trajectories and directions, weights and energies which represent five moments in which a meaning is implied: the visitors become participants. It is a work in progress because it is lived and lives through the viewer.

Collection of black & white photographs celebrating Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento in Paris. The volume is risograph-printed and enclosed in a silk-screened slipcase. With a quite striking foreword by no-wave priestess Lydia Lunch.

This publication documents a site-specific work by Elisabetta Di Maggio at the Museum Portego of the Querini Stampalia Foundation, in the framework of the Venice Biennale. Ivy plants invade the palace's private rooms and create a relationship with past and present time, placing the viewer inside a visual alienation.

French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.

Anniversary dictionary of the The French National School for Decorative Arts, which brings together the students and teachers who contributed to the reputation of the school, from Rodin to Xavier Veilhan, Martial Raysse, Francis Picabia, Cieslewicz, and Matisse.

Panorama reveals one of the principal artist work techniques Francesc Abad applies when arranging images, voices and elements.

This issue explores the vast regions of lightness with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.

An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.

Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).

This luxurious, silk-bound limited edition in a brushed aluminum box set presents highlights from Sugimoto’s Theaters series.

A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.

Rémy Zaugg's complete writings in 10 volumes in a box set (new edition).

New monograph, documenting 21 installations conceived by Haegue Yang during the past decade.

Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.

Harmony Korine, Tokyo collective Chim Pom, Lascaux 4, the revival of a Basque village, portraits of Théo Mercier and Mohamed El Khatib, interviews with SMITH, David Dufresne, Tania Bruguera, and Karim Moussaoui, Braguino by Clément Cogitore, analysis, exhibitions, and portfolios by Hannah Whitaker and Stefano Marchionini.

Monograph documenting an eponymous project in which the American artist explores the relationship between humans and nature by means of a sculptural assemblage made out of the skulls of Europe's largest animal species.

This publication provides a wide-ranging survey of the Argentinian artist's literary collages—produced from 1965 to 2013—which use appropriated texts, representing a kind of experimental writing at the intersection of visual arts, performance, theater, literature, and activism.

Graphic artist and illustrator Tim Lahan publishes a series of drawings focusing on the impermanence of the physical things: a follow up on Dalí's Surrealist representations of space and time.

Featuring newly conceived works, hand in hand with some older works from the 1980s, this catalogue illustrates Dillemuth's exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Graz, in which he created a new way of presenting his oeuvre, setting up site-specific theatrical scenes.

Artist's book documenting works produced by Tom Humphrey between 2009 and 2016 using industrially manufactured ceramic plates as a support medium. This extensive volume reproduces four hundred and twenty works from this series at a one-to-one scale, in precisely rendered photographs.

Published for the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Katja Novitskova's catalogue addresses emerging potentialities between visual culture, big-data-driven processes, and ecology.

The catalogue of the Albanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale presents the work of painter and video artist Leonard Qylafi, whose practice has recently been focusing on processes of change and recollection. The featured works investigate the history of Albania and reflect on the nature of the image as such.

Catalogue spanning the last ten years of works by the American painter whose practice revolves around linguistic issues and reflexive material practices in art. The publication includes texts by artists, curators and scholars, documentation of the exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum by a group of local high-school students and a magazine dedicated to Rayne's 2013 book-object Almanac.

Grounded in theories and practices of withdrawal and in the critical questioning of creation, materiality, and objectified artistic output, The Site Residency program at the Baltic Art Center was imagined as a residency that would result in no material production. This publication presents the outcomes of the program's three participating artists—Annika Eriksson, Susanne Kriemann, Agnieszka Polska—, including the results of their invited ghostwriters.

A striking selection of words extracted from the notebooks of Isabelle Champion Métadier during a journey in New York. These quotes are arranged and accompanied by unpublished photographs.

Collection of handwritten sentences revealing a lesser-known side of Jean-Pierre Raynaud's personality and of his relationship to art.

Monograph dedicated to painter Martin Jannink by François Michaud, curator at Paris Museum of Modern Art. The rare and remarkable painting of the French-Dutch artist is figurative, both romantic and expressionist, full of melancholia, out of present time, with a delicate and disturbing strongness. The publication also documents Jannink's participation in the 1956 Budapest insurrection.

The third issue in a series of publications revolving around the materiality of language: a collection of 18 works and texts by international artists and scholars who examine the physical act of writing.

A polyphonic work of creative resistance, this publication by sound and visual artist Israel Martínez reflects on the present state of Mexico and its regime of narco-politics through artistic works, interviews, notes, images, and collaborations with fellow writers, curators, activists and artists.