Le Dictateur releases his last big, immense, effort: 27 international curators from the world of art, design and fashion curate their ideal show, from past, present or even future or non existing artists but without using images—only words.

The redefinition of the medium through the interrelation between contemporary art and cinema.

An unpublished text by Luc Ferrari from 1982, in which he expresses some of his hopes and concerns about what would become La Muse en circuit that same year. Forty years later, the present director Wilfried Wendling wrote a text in echo.

Olga Kokcharova's LP Furnica is a conceptual and striking sound work that emerged from a recording session in a forest, where the Geneva-based artist captured the sounds of an anthill. As the session unfolded, ants infiltrated the recording device and gradually destroyed its components, leading to intensifying sonic disturbances that overtook the original soundscape.

Artist book / first comprehensive monograph.

Built from deconstructed layers of texture, tone, and arrhythmic percussiveness, Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi's 'Palimpsests' distills 6 years of work into 9 splintered, airy reimaginings of minimalism—each surprising, creatively rigorous, and startlingly beautiful—that rest at the outer reaches of contemporary electroacoustic practice and musique concrète.

The catalog of an exhibition conceived with the gallery Untitled (2016) in the apartment of the CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel), where each of the rooms has been invested by an artist or duo of artists.

Autobiography by Koo Jeong A is a collection of images chosen by the artist via Periscope. Each of them represents a work created by Koo Jeong A during her career.

The translated transcripts of two radio broadcasts by Artaud: To have done with the judgement of god (1947-48) and Madness and Black Magic (1946). Correspondences from that period are also included.

Documents on Raphael is not only a rediscovery project carried out on the five hundredth anniversary of Raphael's death, but above all an operation of re-visioning.

A territorial project but also a collective, musical, social and political experience of listening and exchange.

Two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life.

Set of 8 postcards proposing each one the pattern (to cut oneself) of one of the 8 dice present in Robert Filliou's source installation Eins, Un, One.

One of Ghédalia Tazartès' final recordings, with Rhys Chatham, in 2018-2019.

Sound American Publications' 27th issue, The Life Issue, proposes a reflection upon the smallness—and largeness—of living amidst a tumultuous, globally-shared moment (featuring Claire Rousay, Susan Alcorn, Jack Langdon, Lea Bertucci & Audrey Chen, Katie Porter, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Henri Pousseur, Chris Pitsiokos, Catalytic Sound collective, Ka Baird, Mazen Kerbaj...).

Part children book, part exhibition catalogue, Fake Star is a book about an exhibit in a National Pavilion in the Paris World Exposition 1900.

Rethinking the role of the museum today.

An essay on the Argentine director Hugo Santiago that questions the very definition of cinema.

A beautiful reflective album built around the piano as a central element and inspired by the sound of whispering.

Algorithm as material and writing.

The use by artists of objects coming from the collections of museums of art, science, and society.

Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, ​A Series of Open Questions.

The first photographic book by agnès b., reinterpreting two portraits by Claire Tabouret, displayed in the fashion designer's garden.

Crossed interviews around the project of the curator Mathieu Copeland, who transposes the exhibition to the stage for the duration of a show, pursuing his investigation into the nature of an exhibition.

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

Crossed interviews around the project of the curator Mathieu Copeland, who transposes the exhibition to the stage for the duration of a show, pursuing his investigation into the nature of an exhibition, accompanied by a libretto that gathers the transcriptions of the texts of the thirteen invited artists.

Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).

Artforum turns to efforts by artists, historians, and curators to rethink the underpinnings of the museum institutions.

A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the questions of hospitality safety, security and care.

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

The first issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, explores the identity, role and position of the Professor (contributions by Uli Aigner, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jörg Heiser, Christian Nyampeta, Vivian Slee and Marjorie Senechal).

A search for the founding narratives of graphic design and typography (as there were such narratives in antiquity about art, painting, and sculpture) among Atlantist type designers of the 1930s, starting with the American typographer Beatrice Warde.

A portrait of Jean Dupuy through a film by Gilles Coudert and a collection of unpublished texts.

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

Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.

New large-scale paintings and site-specific floor poster installation relating to youth culture movements, revolving around the states of bewilderment, uncertainty, and alienation, as well as enthusiasm and hope, that accompany the process of growing up.

The Roman period (1974-1976) of the Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997), some decisive years where she developed the sculptural approach to photography that would shape all of her later work.

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.

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.

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

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

New monograph.

Devoted to the late work of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), a pioneering artist who founded the Mexican Mural Renaissance with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, that illustrates the artist's career-long interests in human history and politics, surrealism, symbolism, abstraction and the human form, this catalogue also puts into dialogue the echoes of the painter's influence found in contemporary practices in the city of Guadalajara, where he has left an undeniable mark to our day.

This edition, printed in serigraphy, delivers the reworked transcription of a recorded interview between musicians Jacques Demierre and Louis Schild, in which the notion of surveying and measurement is examined, among other things and in a conversational manner (with a musical transcription and a contribution from the playwright Michèle Pralong).

An exquisite corpse (four pieces resulting from a process of musical exchange between Jean-Philippe Gross and Jérôme Noetinger).

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.