Art, environment and climate emergency.

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.

Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.

The tenth issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts, with & about Sara de Chiara, Moyra Davey, Jana Euler, Sylvie Fanchon, Jim Fletcher, Alexander García Düttmann, Jeanne Graff, Martin Laborde, Liz Magor, Nick Mauss, Edith Schloss, Albert Serra, Pierre Thévenin, Emily Wardill...

The first publication in French of the Saudi poet.

Retrospective monograph.

An artistic project around the secret code of the Incas developed with a system of knotted cords.

A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.

Issue dedicated to music as work.

Break dance at the Olympic Games: hip-hop aims for street gold; in Perpignan, a far-right mayor takes on culture; resisting capitalism by joining forces with ospreys; Wang Bing, filming China before it all disappears; Kathy Acker, punk writer, star by plagiarism...

Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.

A photographic journey through the architecture and history of the capital of Pakistan, built ex nihilo from 1961 to the mid 1970s.

Dave McEnzie, Luke Libera Moore, Niki de Saint Phalle, Chao-Chen Yang...

An anthology.

In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

This book furthers the reflection that was given form in the exhibition Blues Klair, a site to test History in terms of the present. A series of essays probes the enduring presence of colonialism as well as of alliances and cultural crossovers across time and space through the filter of the colour blue.

Souffle Continu Records; interviews with François Bonnet / Kassel Jaeger, Yann Gourdon, Satoko Fujii, Hans Reichel, Christophe Guérin; Lelio Giannetto; books and records reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Carol Sansour by Henri-Jules Julien...

A historiography of impressionism: a historical and critical study of the writing of impressionist history as a documentary (de)monstration.

This biography of a fictitious artist constitutes a critical analysis of the professionalization of arts education as well as a support for reflection in favor of the socio-economic responsibilities of artistic practices.

The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.

Joan Mitchell, Louis Fratino, Cecilia Vicuña, Lorraine O'Grady...

A comparative analysis of the poetic creation of the second half of the 20th century, under the aegis of the notion of non-dualism, redefining the epistemologies of action peculiar to the poetry of the 1960-80s but also, in perspective, of the extreme contemporary.

The series of works developed by Sara Enrico around the concept of the textile jumpsuit.

David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.

Helen Marten, Carl Craig, Anne Imhof, Julie Mehretu, Kaspar Müller, Promising Young Woman, Hito Steyerl, Telfar, Grace Wales Bonner...

Jupiter is the monograph of the artist Andreas Sell by the curator Joel Mu and the outcome of their collaboration. It includes a selection of Andreas Sell's work of the last fifteen years, an essay in five parts by Joel Mu, and a poem by Alice Heyward.

A collective publication implementing the itinerant project of the School of non-work developed by the Geneva-based Argentinian artist Patricio Gil Flood, developed in always different forms, depending on the context where it settles and acts.

A reflection on the stakes of the analysis of dance works and the education of the gaze.

An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.

Issues 27 to 30 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful and radical work of electroacoustic artistry with his contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series, between electronic and acoustic tactics, pushing the boundaries of experimental and avant-garde music.

A new essay by curator and publisher Mathieu Copeland about Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux's reinvention of Allan Kaprow's environment The Apple Shrine and considering, more generally, the themes of reinvention in art and the exhibition form.

Artist's book.

The fertile exchanges between French and American poetry since 1968.

The drawing practice of Kara Walker.

Pedro Costa; can we collect looted works in Africa?; investigating drugs in dance; tracking down the invisible with Siberian shamans; Angela Gulbenkian...

Black Sifichi, Radio renversé by Elena Biserna & Carole Rieussec, Asmaa Azaizeh, Diamanda Galás, De l'utilisation de la musique sur les ondes by Jérôme Noetinger & Alphonsine Houëves, Cornelius Cardewby Matthieu Saladin, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Akira Sakata, Le conservatisme musical (et la musique à venir ?) by Kasper T. Toeplitz...

A book about art, publishing and collaboration.

New monograph, documenting a large-scale installation that reflects the artist's dreamlike aesthetic, his ongoing exploration of notions of movement, transition and vulnerability, and mythological narratives, offering a rare glimpse into Clemente's forays into the field of sculpture.

Valentin Husson overturns the traditional hierarchy between being and having, rehabilitating the latter as an ecological imperative, in order to rethink our relationship to the environment, in an innovative re-reading of the history of philosophy.

In Un homme sensible, Octave Mirbeau tells the story of a murderer who, in the name of world harmony, is determined to rid the world of "all organisms unfit for a strong and harmonious life". This inspired Nurse With Wound, which, as an illustration, gives us here a new piece of unpublished music.

An conversation around the question of time and the links between the short and long term, the present, the past and the possible futures in the artistic practice of Marie Velardi.

Voce a vento (a vinyl LP + an artist's book) represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018.

Isabelle Magnon asked Ghédalia Tazartès to take pictures of his "Cabinet de curiosité". This book shows 40 pictures of Tazartès' objects and small installations. There is a free CD included of the only recorded performance of the trio formed by Ghédalia Tazartès, Jérôme Lorichon and Quentin Rollet.

The album “Balance” by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree was originally released in 2002 by Mille Plateaux on CD only. The 9 tracks are a perfect example for the aesthetics to arise within the Click & Cuts scene and (ambient-)glitch music movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Giuseppe Ielasi experiments for the MMXX series with edgy and unpredictable rhythmic elements, buzzing tones and unusual environments.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.