Contemporary art

Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.

Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Nine texts by Gilles Barbier.

Interview with Emilio López-Menchero around a commissioned work executed by the artist as part of the New Patrons program.

Catalogue / artist's book.

A complete survey of performance arts between Quebec, Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

On Purpose and Urgency: Cory Arcangel, Defne Ayas, Angie Keefer, Adam Kleinman, David Levine, Chus Martínez, Seth Price, João Ribas, Carey Young, Akram Zaatari; On Art and the Distributed Spectacle, Kevin Beasley, Caleb Considine, On Cooperation, Thomas Eggerer, GCC, hobbypopMUSEUM, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen, Alan Moore by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jon Pestoni, Pots on Video, Charles Ray, Tabor Robak, The Artist as Curator (a serial publication debuting in this issue), Luke Willis Thompson, The Value of Art Criticism, Dena Yago...

Mustapha Akrim's works mixes at once protest, aesthetics, philosophy and politics. The project documented in this catalogue questions labour and education—two notions symbolized by the recurring motif of the fly. As a work in progress, “Iqraa” also refers to the idea that nothing is fixed—neither aesthetically nor politically.

Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Part essay, part autobiography, the first book by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto offers a reflection on the artist's life, career and practice. With a foreword by André Habib, professor of film studies at the University of Montreal and a specialist in experimental cinema.

55th Venice Biennale, Camille Henrot, Mike Kelley, Pierre Huyghe, Andrea Fraser, 13th Istambul Biennale, Hideyuki Nakayama, Philip King, Michael Werner, Andrew Pike, Ugo Rondinone, Angela Bulloch & David Grubbs, Sou Fujimoto, Gloria Friedmann, Meret Oppenheim, Bruno Serralongue...

John Armleder & Fluxus.

Twelve theoretical investigations on the crisis (both economical and personal) issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics, originated with artist Deborah Ligorio's research.

A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.

Largely due to the “linguistic turn” that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O'Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.

Nine texts by Gilles Barbier, accompanied by an unique work, resin and feathers on cardboard.

Grimmuseum looks back on two years of intense production and manifold explorations within alternative curator/artist frameworks.

First monograph.

A catalogue that proposes an open narrative through the objects on display and questions the position contemporary design plays in the dialogue between people and every day objects.

An introduction to the painting based artwork of Danish artist Mette Winckelmann.

A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels.

Interviews Special Issue.

A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.

First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.

An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).

Reference monograph / first comprehensive critical tool dedicated to the work of Swiss abstract painter.

The collection of "critical dreams" made and transcribed by the art critic and curator Jean-Max Colard between 2005 and 2013, nocturnal side of his regular writing on art activity.

The Looping Papaye Bar was an eccentric hangout initiated and steered by Mauro Paolozzi, Rafael Koch and Dimitri Broquard. This publication brings together the A4 sized invitations drawn with pencil by Dimitri Broquard for the events that took place at the ephemeral bar in 2012. Broquard took inspiration from ancient reproduction techniques such as etching, or from classical themes seen in art history and the decorative arts.

Crossed interviews with artists and their collectors.

The most monumental auto-creative work ever made by Gustav Metzger (catalogue of the exhibition at MAC Lyon, with numerous archive documents, newly commissioned texts and a conversation with the artist).

A New Patrons project, 2010.

Recent video works by the Swiss artists duo: a deconstruction of the cinematic codes within our visual culture.

Artist's book.

Featuring: a tribute to Frank Zappa (unpublished interview and illustrations by Cal Schenkel), Christian Marclay by Anaïs Prosaïc, The Wild Classical Music Ensemble, Anaïs Nony, Guerilla Gardening, Zdenek Kosek, self-hypnosis, Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle's ecosexual activism, primatologist Frans de Waal...

An overview of current research in the broader field of human sciences in Switzerland.

Retrospective monograph: the first complete publication dedicated to Pierrette Bloch' practice from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Reference monograph.

First monograph.

Six conversations recorded in Berlin between the artist Heimo Lattner and colleagues, focusing on the artist's research and practice, especially around the recurring theme of the voice, which Lattner's work queries as fundamental to issues concerning the formation of social and cultural identity.

A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.

All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.

The transcript of a piece that Paul Sietsema did in early 2011 for an exhibition in Los Angeles.

A series of letters written by Christodoulos Panayiotou during a stay in Japan.

First monograph.

A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters.

An "archaeology" of contemporary art, between Matisse and Duchamp, between art and philosophy: a book to deconstruct the aesthetic regime of the image, for a new diagrammatic thinking, after Deleuze and Guattari.

Richard Hawkins' first book of fiction: eight jubilatory and decadent short stories.