Contemporary art

A gestural abstract painter reflects on his near-death experience with Covid

The Colour Journal is a lavish publication that explores colour in art and photography. It has been conceived as a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. The Blue Issue contains, over more than 400 pages, about twenty contributions by international art historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, critics, artists and photographers that start from the colour blue.

A panorama of the art of ceramics.

Issues 42 to 45 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

A series of one-hundred masks constructed of everyday materials by the Mexican artist, featuring texts by writer and poet Luigi Amara.

A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.

The intimate and unpublished portraits of the American artist's partner.

A new critical reading of key dimensions of the Los Angeles-based French artist's work.

A manifesto for an activist neuroaesthetics, to make the processes of digital dominion and governmentalization—which are becoming more and more prominent in late-stage cognitive capitalism (or neural capitalism)—opaque, visible, and known (contributions by Franco Bifo Berardi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Warren Neidich, Slavoj Žižek...).

First monograph of the French textile artist.

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

An art book by musician and artist Loren Connors, exploring his pictural practice.

Special issue of the poetry journal directed by Jean-François Bory, dedicated to performance in the broad sense, from the page to the stage.

Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans; Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna; Alexandro Segade on the Ororocene; Travis Diehl on Alexis Smith's Same Old Paradise, 1987...

Nina Canell's artistic practice does not revolve around the finished artwork; instead, it foregrounds process and synergy. This artist's book/catalogue is based on an experiential installation that considers the material vitality of calcite.

First monograph of the artist, poet, and filmmaker Sky Hopinka whose work embraces Native American perspectivism and reverses the primacy of representation of non-Western identities.

The result of a remarkable editorial work whose graphic design is signed by Syndicat and Lucien Pelen, this first monograph brings together fifteen years of photographic and video production, unpublished contributions, texts and the making-of of the actions carried out by the artist.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.

A retrospective of the first ten years of the NY-based radical art, publishing and multimedia collective 8-Ball Community.

For its fall issue, Flash Art looks at how artists navigate and draw upon the creative industry known as "fashion".

A feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical definitions of institutional critique.

This first meticulous revision of the artistic work by Guadeloupean artist Minia Biabiany points the reasons why her practice has become unavoidable to reflect on the continuous process of Caribbean colonization, by destabilizing colonial structures within the territory, body and language.

The 15th issue of Nakako Hayashi's graphic journal, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the project.

The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.

An acoustic mapping of colonial history.

First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.

An intimate dialogue between the works of the two artists over four decades.

The 2023 Toilet Paper wall calendar.

The everyday life of Stefan Marx in Berlin, in a new 300-page volume of drawings.

CURA. 38 "The Generational Issue" is the magazine's first survey about artists' portraits that aims to investigate some of the most meaningful protagonists of the new generation who, stressing the urgencies of current times, are shaping the landscape of the present and the future in contemporary art.

New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.

A survey of Louise Nevelson's research on collage.

Pilvi Takala's project for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

The three issues of the periodical charting the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira in the run up to her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), gathered in a box set.

The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

This zine gathers several photos, collages and drawings of Barry Mc Gee. He created a unique visual language, composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols.

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

Two rare historical recordings (1983 and 1986) by the godfather of Dark Ambient, originally released as single sides and gathered here for the first time.

Monograph gathering together a selection of works by Miriam Cahn and the texts of authors such as Alberto Salvadori, Luigi Fassi, Carolin Emcke, Dieter Roelstraete, Estelle Hoy and Francesca Recchia.

This richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover Tomoo Gokita's latest body of work, featuring his newest large-scale paintings and a number of never-before-seen works made under lockdown during the pandemic.

A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.

The culinary performances and installations of the Japanese artist based in Paris (book printed in fluorescent pantones).

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.