Contemporary art

In the October issue of Artforum: a feature on cover artist Lillian Schwartz, a portfolio by Carmen Herrera, Homi K. Bahba on William Kentridge, Chris Kraus on Julie Becker and newly published writings by Donald Judd. Plus, Nikolas Gambaroff's Top Ten and exhibition reviews from New York, Brescia, Dublin, Beirut, Sydney, and more.

Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.

A publishing survey of the diagrams produced by Ricardo Basbaum in recent years. Both autonomous pieces or elements from installations, these diagrams act as interventional tools and visual poems that connect the literary and plastic spaces.

Publication dedicated to the Versos series, in which Philippe Gronon photographs the verso side of paintings by ancient and modern masters. With a foreword by Hubert Besacier.

4-volume box set gathering six of the artist's most iconic photographic series. This special publication brings an end to a research on the notion of document that started in 1999 (limited edition of 700 signed copies).

Élodie Lesourd's first retrospective monograph provides a complete overview of her work since 1993, highlighting her inclination toward Rock culture and hyperrealism.

Art magazines as exhibition objects and spaces.

Samson Young; essays by Hendrik Folkerts, Michael Taussig, Benjamin Thorel, and Tim Griffin; Rayyane Tabet in conversation with Haegue Yang; Laura McLean-Ferris on empathy and the confessional; round-table on materialist history of exhibitions; Kishio Suga by Stuart Munro; Andrew Berardini on flowers and art; artificial creativity by John Menick; Lawrence Lek with Cécile B. Evans; Kasper Bosmans; and more.

The illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi (reference monograph).

Reference monograph: the illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, with an original xylograph, numbered and signed, entitled The Key.

Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.

Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.

Monograph offering a collective literary and poetic rendering of Alan Reid's works.

Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.

First monograph dedicated to artist and filmmaker Martin Le Chevallier: a thorough introduction to his entire body of work (films, site-specific interventions, interactive pieces, performances and processes).

This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.

The first monograph ever published on the work of Roman Stańczak: an incredible opportunity to discover the work of this influential and yet under-known artist. The publication includes an interview with Stańczak conducted by Zuzanna Hadrys & Michał Lasota and essays by Jan Verwoert, Zofia Krawiec, Łukasz Ronduda in addition to an extensive portfolio of images.

De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.

De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.

This publication is part of an artistic and performative project conceived by artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and critic Sylvain Menétrey. Part poetic neologism, part scientific concept, the semiospace, as a linguistic creation, seems to mirror Bidault-Waddington's practice—the creation of hybrid objects at once cognitive models borrowed from science, and exuberant fictions.

Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo Rondinone, Diana Thater, Christian Rosa, Matali Crasset, Dyvik Kahlen Architects, Melike Kara, Roberto Cuoghi, Rachel Harrison, Kate Burkhart, Patrick Berger & Jacques Anziutti, Isa Genzken by Tobias Madison, Vanessa Place…

This issue traces the path of digital creation, from 90s Net Art to today's Post-Internet artists.

The first major monograph on Piffaretti: a journey through contemporary painting.

Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.

The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.

Robert Suermondt / Denis Pondruel / SAM (Myung-Ok Han, Oan Kim, Peter Kim) / Très Traits (Silvia Bächli, Isabelle Cornaro, Adrian Ghenie, Andreas Gursky, Eugène Leroy, Roy Lichtenstein, Christopher Wool).

Jon Rafman by Bret Schneider, Art and the machine by Anthony Huberman, Carolee Schneemann discusses 1964 Meat Joy with Vincent Honoré, Arnold Rüdlinger by Lorenzo Benedetti, a commissioned work by Guan Xiao, interviews with Ian Cheng, Athena Papadopoulos, Cayetano Ferrer, Emmanuelle Lainé, Davide Balula by Daniel S. Palmer, Matthew Linde's Centre for Style, Pilvi Takala…

A re-reading of Walter Benjamin by François Coadou, suicidal tendencies in Rock'n'roll history, Chris Marker's La Jetée, Genesis P-Orridge & Timothy Leary, Salvage Art Institute, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Crammed Discs Records, interviews with Jean-Luc Verna, Jill Gasparina, Ange Leccia, Carole Douillard & Dora García…

The Open Hide offers a concise overview of the diverse accomplishments of Danish artist Asger Jorn. The volume comprises over 75 images of Jorn's work, each with complete provenance, exhibition and literature history. A comprehensive biography of the artist is also included, along with photographs and other archival material.

Berger&Berger, Anne-Lise Coste, Matias Faldbakken, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jakob+Macfarlane, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Denis Savary, Alan Vega, Collection Jean-Hubert Martin...

L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This second issue focuses on Jim Shaw's Californian youth between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s.

Espace(s) #13 inaugurates the new formula of the French Space Agency's review. This issue explores the potential of the archive as a material for new artistic or literary narratives.

This publication documents around 50 years of Nannucci editions, artists' books, multiples, prints, catalogues, posters, ephemera—edited as artist & editor—from 1967 to 2016. It includes an anthology of essays, two index of works, by category and in chronological order, a bibliography and a biography.

Crossing perspectives on living among screens.

Special Protest Issue: French activists alternative lifestyle, Lisbon's music scene, experimental Japanese photography magazine Provoke, Marguerite Humeau and Ian Cheng, Mauro Herce' s Dead Slow Ahead, Tino Sehgal, Canada's new generation of Native American artists…

The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings.

Richly illustrated publication recounting the life of French sculptor Étienne Hajdu.

Artist's book (photographs and texts).

The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.

A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.

This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.

Diary published to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Summerlake Summer School initiated in 2011 by ESAAA – École Supérieure d'Art de l'Agglomération d'Annecy.

500 random notes collected by the artist and inspired by discussions, films and books.

A contemporary epic poem gathering quotes, film clips, titles, slogans, and a variety of images and sentences collected here and there…

An overview of Camille Laurelli's humoristic and provocative work in all its diversity: photographs, pen and felt pen drawings, prints, screenshots, commissioned texts by her mother or a fictional art critic, viral videos, ready-made, website comments, found objects…

This monograph is structured around an alphabet dedicated to the career of this pioneer of digital art. It also includes contributions from the likes of Nam June Paik and Paul Virilio, as well as an interview with Catherine Ikam and her associate Louis Fléri.

In this issue: Donald Trump's furniture, the opening of the Bir Zeit's Palestinian Museum, how digital technology renewed the art of painting, South Africa's student protests target colonial art in Universities, Rio beyond the postcard view, 1960's New York in photographs, culture and refugee crisis in Germany, the paranormal in early cinema, interviews with Jenny Holzer and Asli, and a portfolio by Roman Stetina.

Interviews with Sarah Oppenheimer, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jen Bervin and Dianna Frid, Mel Chin, Marina Rosenfeld, Okwui Okpokwasili, Nell Zink, Laia Jufresa, “Artists on Artists” section with Audra Wolowiec by Emmalea Russo, James Esber by David Geers, Laura Owens by Claudia La Rocco, fiction and poetry, portfolio by Olga Chernysheva, books' reviews, end page by Jonathan Horowitz...